Recent content by El Jefe

I have a really good friend (although we haven't seen each other for many years, since I left home), who's studied calligraphy quite extensively. He always carries an ink pen, and refuses to let anyone else use it, on the grounds that anyone else's writing will "duress his nib". I have no...

I knew I was going to be Dino. I was right. That calls for a drinkie winky....

Oh man, that is soooo sweet... "Nice to see you again, Dr. Jones."

What, nobody hits the dogtrack??? That's vintage, baby...

Yeah, sure, I can see that, definitely a 30's-40's kind of vibe around those big buildings downtown, cool...and then you cross the bridge and it's straight into the 50's, up around Sandy there (where I was staying when I was there)...I can definitely see where there'd be a fair bit of...

No, no shrinkage, but I should postscript the whole deal by noting that, in fact, there was some shapal distortion after everything was said and done, I've had a bit of a go getting the brim flattened out and drooping evenly fore & aft as before. I got it wet and clothespinned the very center of...

Holy moley, that's a deal! I was actually thinking about this, and maybe you can fill me in a bit. What was going on in Portland during the actual Golden Era?? It seems to me that most major (or major-ish) North American cities (NY obviously, Chicago, DC, LA, SF, Tulsa, Houston, New Orleans...

MK, that's beautiful, I think I'd read about Musso & Frank's before. Actually, it's all academic, since I'm on the whole nother side of the Pacific, but I did live in Portland for a couple months, whereas I've only transited thru LA and been to the SF airport. But I didn't visit many bars in...

Belly me lad...thanks, now I have to go change me kecks...

Das ist ein Shloompfenjacketen, mein freund!!! Sehr gut, jah? Jah!

You da...uh, Root, thanks, partner.

Hayworth. O'Hara. Made me feel all...funny inside when I watched their movies as a kid. And one nobody else has mentioned, and I can't find a single decent photo (Root?) , but Katherine Grayson, like...holy moley...

So reading Wild Root's diner thread got me thinking, does anyone know a nice retro-feeling bar? Not one of those cheesy New Jazz-age cigar lounges, but a real barman-with-a-tie-shaking-up-a-Rob Roy kind of a joint where you might spot a classy tomato down at the end of the bar who just got...

Go for it, Belly! No picture offhand, but Hemingway and his groomsmen all wore the white flannels and blue DB blazers at his first wedding...very summer in Kennebunkport sort of a look... If one's into that sort of thing...

I would definitely take The Professionals over TM7 for the Seven Samurai Old West Revision...