But wait there's more:

Thanks. I don't go to church, and I am not in AA, so it's a communal activity I enjoy.

Happy Birthday, Brian Eno (b. 15 May 1948)
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This update comes from the Florida Panhandle, where we are for Pop’s 79th birthday. So it’s my Pop culture pop culture weekend. Oh, and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz didn’t call me.

Whoa!

Holy Ghost, this is NOT an episode of "Scooby-Doo"!

Maybe not a masterpiece, but she's awfully popular. The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world Celine Dion is talented.

Well, not just verisimilitude. I really didn't like it, so that was just icing.

Agreed on "Carousel".

I missed it, in favor of dinner at Juan's Flying Burrito. Sounds like the right idea.

I was very frustrated with Jill not getting "Elements of Style". . . both Strunk and White were in the clue!

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over…

To have lived at all is a measure of immortality; for a baby to be born, to become a man, a woman, to beget others like himself, is an act of faith in itself, even an act of defiance. It is as though every human being born into this world burns, for a brief moment, like a star, and because of it a pinpoint of light…

I believe Gwyneth Paltrow would be a valuable source of advice on acting.

She can operate her Roku!

I didn't realize there other CSI's weren't on anymore. I suppose there are still plenty of procedurals for my mother to watch.

My son was a little shy of seven years old at the time, and very close to Renée and my youngest sister; he's now a little shy of 32. It's tough on all of us, of course, and hits him really hard. In a text exchange with my mother and other siblings today I said "It's like swallowed it whole when he was such a little…

I have a niece the same age as Brick and Cindy, also a smart child, also "on the spectrum." Cindy's line about being incapable of saying something she doesn't mean was familiar.

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My sister Renée was killed (homicide) on May 12, 1991, which was Mother's Day. I told that (fucked-up) story at a Story Slam in February 2015: https://youtu.be/eIvIrf5cH_I