Strangely, I discovered one day that PreCheck was on my boarding pass and I hadn’t done anything to request it. I guess they must have issued it automatically due to my age, gender (and no doubt, race), and the low number of flights I take. It’s usually on the pass, and if it isn’t I just pretend that it is and get…

Whether I’m flying or not, I’ve finally came to the same “travel uniform” conclusion, mainly so that I won’t have to obsess about my outfits. I basically bring the same clothes each time, with variations for the weather. Nobody remembers what you wore last year anyway. I have a favorite pair of pants - yes, they are…

Bobby Canavale’s character would only exist in flashbacks.

Don’t chew, just suck!

Necco wafers were intriguing to look at in the roll, all the different colors like a crayon box, maybe not that great to eat. My earliest candy memories, circa 1953, are Necco wafers and handing out candy corn to trick-or-treaters.

But the little ones (midgees) are usually petrified and I’m afraid they’ll break my teeth.

I buy ribbon candy every Christmas, to go with the chocolate orange and the fruitcake.

Oh, you’ve been to my house!

Or record it with your Personal Engraving Notator, i.e. a pen.

That’s a great tip and one which I am now following, because HAVING to change your underwear while traveling is a real drag.

In my 20s I spent 6 years engaged in rigorous karate practice, very Japanese, “Push yourself!” “Face yourself!” “Tighten your mind! [not your body]”, a lot of repetitions. Twice a year we had Special Training which was like a weekend at boot camp, though the army veterans amongst us considered Special Training more…

I notice you didn’t include any Hemingway, which is just as well. The only Hemingway book I was able to finish in high school was The Old Man & the Sea, because it’s short. In US History we were given a list of books to choose from for written reports, so I chose The Great Gatsby because it was fiction; also Erskine…

When The World As We Know It collapses, I can’t help thinking that some people out there will just continue as they have for generations.

Yeah, if I weren’t watching it in reruns All the Time, I’d never  see it.

I saw that film with Alan Arkin, back in 1969. It was a sketch, presumably from the early Sixties, where he played a guitar-playing beatnik street person and she was an uptight young woman. Mainly improv, I expect. She was a real actor’s actor.

A Thousand Clowns! What I always remember when I think of Barbara Harris.

“Quest for Fire” and “Iceman” had fictional proto-languages for its people, who were from much older cultures. This imaginary European culture of a mere 20,000 years ago certainly would have had a coherent language, because all peoples that we know of, including hunter-gatherers as in the film, have a language. I’d…

I believe that the Mormon Church still encourages its members to keep a year’s supply of food, and there used to be public canneries run by the church. If you wanted to can meat, say if you bought a quarter of a pig, and didn’t want to rely on a freezer run on electricity, it is possible to can it yourself at home, but…

I thought this movie was awesome the first time I saw it. It was September 9, 2001. Two days later I didn’t think it was so awesome.

Just so yinz all know, the Strip District wasn’t named for strip joints but because it’s a strip of land by the riverfront which historically was where the food wholesalers were.