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Priceline Hotel Review

David Hardiman — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:54:09 +0000

Best Western Hotel 420 Constitution Drive Livermore, CA 94550 Ideally situated between the Livermore Costco and Miss Fanny’s Gentleman’s Club, this Best Western Hotel is a 100% felon-free property (in all likelihood). Before graduating to a Best Western Hotel, the property began as a Good Western and then worked itself up to a Better […]

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Fake Book on Ombudsmen Generates Fake Book Review

David Hardiman — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 19:05:01 +0000

Ombudsmandry Throughout the Ages by Frank Knarf St. Albans Press, 341 pp., $55.00 In Frank Knarf’s bracingly inconsequential book Ombudsmandry Throughout the Ages, within the span of 3 pages the author tells us everything we’d ever want to know about ombudsmen. How he manged to concoct another 338 pages on such an esoteric topic […]

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“This was no boating accident.”

David Hardiman — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:33:44 +0000

That line is from the movie Jaws, where an incredulous Richard Dreyfus surveys the peculiar wreckage of a shattered boat and announces, “This was no boating accident.” And in a sense this could apply to Terry Castle’s review of Siri Hustvedt’s novel The Blazing World. That is, at first glance the decimated boat looks […]

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Intellectualism at its Pointiest

David Hardiman — Fri, 09 May 2014 05:57:21 +0000

As a dilettante of the second order, I occasionally glance at The New York Review of Books just to see how the other half lives. Alright, just to see how the other .00000000025% live. Except for Presidents giving a State of the Union Address, no one reads any more. Instead they troll for satisfying videos […]

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