I was really interested to see Jezebel’s take on “The Queen’s Gambit.” I’ve been looking for it for two weeks now. And finally I get...a meditation on wallpaper. I’m extremely disappointed. 

Irish. He was the very first contestant to be eliminated...an arrogant prick with a brogue. He disrespected one of the judges, Hubert Keller, I believe, over the matter of sticking a finger in the dish to taste it (Keller insisted on using a spoon, like a normal chef concerned with food safety.) His dish was mediocre,…

I have no problem with people masturbating. But it’s a private activity. You don’t do it in public, or at work, or while on a work-related Zoom call. Duh. “He was just doing what comes naturally.” Riiiiiiight. He’s an adult human, not a dog, and even dogs can be trained not to hump people’s legs or whatever they hump.…

Yep.

“Well, the final installation in the torture nightmare that was the presidential debates occurred Thursday...”

Were you watching the Thin Man movies on streaming? Which service? (Or were they on TCM, which miss more than any other cable channel?) Also, Trump sucks.

...not forgetting how Obama trashed Trump’s ratings by announcing the killing of Bin Laden during “The Apprentice.” 

Indeed. 

You did ask in which country. OK, in the United States, specifically in the upper midwest. Yes, the astronomical winter begins on the winter solstice. But people tend to have looser definitions of the seasons related to weather (winter is when it gets to a certain level of cold or snow, for example), as well as the…

“[Martha Stewart] also normalized the idea of fall decor to celebrate the season itself by treating pumpkins and corn husk wreaths like decorations.”

I grew up in Chicagoland and now live in SE Michigan. Here (North America, about 42º north latitude, around the Great Lakes,) the first snow often comes in November. Usually flurries or a dusting, and it doesn’t stay long, but definitely snow. Further north, in northern Wisconsin, or Minnesota, and especially in…

Sears and Montgomery Wards were definitely the Amazons of the 19th and early 20th century. They took advantage of new technologies and cutting-edge supply chains, chiefly the railroad and the telegraph and the postal service that was expanding its services because of the railroads. Then they got complacent and locked…

When was in junior high and high school in the 70s/early 80s, I preferred Penney’s to Sears, and so, it seemed, did my mom. Penney’s clothes were more stylish. Not fashion-forward, which I’ve never been, and which wasn’t an expression I knew back then, but not frumpy and not polyester. I also remember a big campaign…

Though now that I think about it, aren’t most teen soaps ridiculous? Riverdale is the only one I’ve ever watched. When I was a teen, there were a few shows that might qualify as “teen soaps” today, but it wasn’t a whole genre yet, and kids didn’t have their own channels. Yes, I’m Old. But I love Riverdale. 

Same.

Puffed sleeves are sooooo elegant! Anne Shirley could tell you that. :)

Men’s caftans are a thing. Those might work for you.

I’m sure there were points in that marriage where Hillary had “Go Your Own Way” stuck in her head. The Clintons’ marriage has endured, and I’m sure it’s loving, and I admire that...but it’s definitely had its very public low points.

Oh, he does!

I want to hear this part: “Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out. They leave the West behind. And Moscow girls make me sing and shout. That Georgia’s always on my-my-my-my-mind!”