He lives on Long Island. He’s telling the truth. Problem is, most people aren’t paying as much as he is.

Juno was cute and funny and dressed up a completely terrible story about abortion and adoption in good dialogue.

I’m divided over this movie. The trailers are all making it out to be a quippy middle class angst comedy about how motherhood sucks the life out of you (when I heard “self care” in the commercial, I wanted to throw something). But now that I know the spoilers, it sounds much darker and not very funny at all. Does it…

That’s factually wrong. Farrakhan met Arafat in ‘97. The NOI has been preaching antisemitism since before Farrakhan, and he made front page news in the early 80s with his comments about Hitler and the Holocaust, not to mention Jewish control of the economy. You can argue that a Zionist dimension has entered the…

But this isn’t really about Zionism. Yes, there’s a multisided mess about antisemitism and anti-Zionism, but Farrakhan’s statements don’t fit into that. The NOI has been antisemitic going back to the early 60s, and Farrakhan’s rhetoric falls into classical antisemitic canards. He’s taken up some anti-Zionist rhetoric…

That jarred crap is terrible. Sorry but true. I grew up on appetizing store herring in cream sauce (also, pickled lox in cream sauce, even better) and the jarred is not as good.

Wear contact lenses and rinse your hands afterwards. Why include the hands as a worry? Do we want to breed capsaicin free chiles lest someone forget to wash? (Ask any guy who forgot to wash his hands, and then went to the bathroom after chopping jalapenõs!)

mmmm, patented space age out of this world moon waffles!

Frum is just Yiddish for religious. Haredi is Hebrew for what we roughly call ultra-Orthodox in English.

I utterly loathed the book, and thought Eggers was so entranced with his idea that he just skated on it. You can't make a good movie out of a bad book unless you make it unrecognizable.

I'm from Long Island. I'm so Long Island that we sang Billy Joel songs on band bus trips (everyone knew all the lyrics to "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant")

THis is what takes it out of the realm of just the role: "I really echo what [castmate Madeline Brewer] said, honestly, for me it’s not a feminist story—it’s a human story, because women’s rights are human rights”

The answer annoys me because the take is that feminism is specific and parochial and this is bigger—that it somehow transcends the narrow boundaries of feminism.

the explanation made it unrealistic in a different way. One, you can't just inherit a rent controlled apartment from a relative unless you lived in it.

A regional difference I've noticed: In the New York City area, you still see a lot of half gallon cartons, with the spout you have to rip open—this was the norm when I was growing up there. Plastic jugs were for gallons.

Oh man, DiNic's. The best for sure.

They would have gone to Kol Nidre, if they cared about the break fast. But in the 1950s, American Reform Judaism was still firmly in the Classical Reform era, where kashrut was a relic. A non kosher butcher wouldn't have been that big of a deal—though many Jews went to them out of habit and because they had their…

For reasons lost in the mists of time, my husband and I keep a bag of Werthers Originals (the original originals, the hard caramels) in the car, which are only eaten on road trips.

Sure, if you can. But if you're driving through Bohunk nowhere and what's at the next exit is McD's, here comes my McChicken.

Forget dripping. Use goose fat. Best roasties.