Now that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has passed, this might be the best time to state that this stuff is undignified and bothers me whoever does it, Democrat or Republican. I’m all for presidential humor, but it used to … Continue reading →
You may or may not have noticed that a couple of years ago my blogroll disappeared. To the reader, blogrolls are a convenience, a shorthand way to find blogs the writer considers worth looking at for one reason or other. … Continue reading →
Whole Foods has an especially delectable cake that I find completely irresistible. Fortunately for me, my wallet, and my waistline, I don’t live down the street from a Whole Foods, although I’m within striking distance if the desire is strong … Continue reading →
Here’s a PJ article on the 5 worst and 5 best James Bond theme songs. My question is: why, why, why is there no “Dr. No” there among the best? Is it because there was no conventional “song” (with words, … Continue reading →
Here’s a list of the 20 best restaurants in America—according to the folks at something I’ve never heard of before called The Daily Meal. If you take a look, you’ll notice there’s a trend, which is for restaurants that are … Continue reading →
By now you’ve probably encountered the tale of 85-year-old Marilyn Hagerty’s polite column on the Olive Garden in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the middle-America restaurant review that went viral. Initially, cynical bloggers and twitterers made fun of Ms. Hagerty’s respect … Continue reading →
Today my internet connection went down. I tried all the usual things: asking Comcast to refresh the signal, disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, calling and speaking to customer service. It was the latter that really got my goat. First the … Continue reading →
Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, is a billionaire. My goodness. I knew Spanx were (was?) big, but I had no idea. No idea! In case you don’t know what Spanx are (is?), one picture is worth at least 500 … Continue reading →
I won’t talk about last night’s Oscar awards here. We’ve already done that, to the dismay of some. This post is about Oscars of yore. The other day at PJ, Chris Queen listed the Oscars’ 10 biggest blunders, and I … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Every now and then I re-post a previous essay that you might have missed first time around. This is one of them (slightly edited).] When I was a child, we were given a fair amount of homework. And although … Continue reading →
Live alone? Watch out; you may find yourself getting a mite too weird for comfort: In a sense, living alone represents the self let loose. In the absence of what Mr. Klinenberg calls “surveilling eyes,” the solo dweller is free … Continue reading →
I have a weakness for books. If I freely indulged myself, I’d be poverty-stricken in no time flat. I’ve got such long lists of books to read that if I were to actually to get to all of them it … Continue reading →