Remind him that when the electricity goes off you’ll still be able to ride your penny farthing bicycle. You can make the turntable work without electicity by attaching a paper cone to a sewing needle, inserting it into the groove, and turning the disc manually (but don’t!).

Ditto on the horror movies mentioned. It is a pleasure to see a horror movie that is not gore and monsters. Years ago I read “Horror in the Cinema”, which discussed not only the classic monster movies but also films like “Repulsion” and “Le Corbeau”, which is not even fantasy/s.f.

His boo, obviously.

Good thinking. On a Chimay bottle they provided a drawing of the kind of glass one should use - similar to the brandy-snifter type you described, instead of a highball-type glass. Of course, after mowing the lawn I’m just as happy to drink a Bass ale (or whatever) right out of the bottle. Thanks!

What’s an OG? What’s an OA? Took me years to find out an OC was. Also, who were The Hills?

So, I’m curious, having just started to drink craft and European beers: which beers should only be drunk from a glass, not the bottle?

The two things I dislike about restaurant coleslaw is that it is usually watery, and everything is chopped up into a mush. I am hoping that neither of these is true about KFC.

I just got HBO for free for 3 months, and this was the first show that I watched, having come across it looking for “Veep”. It was Saturday so I gather that what I saw was the pilot. Wonderful noir, very tightly done. Then I found out that it’s supposed to be a comedy! The story is deeply absurd, but I prefer it as a…

Very true. And sometimes a week or two with another person can spell the end of a friendship - not even that you fight, but you just O.D. on each other. Different people are different! If you have a best friend you wouldn’t part with, great - if not, I’d rather be alone than with someone I don’t really know all that…

They truly ended it at the right time, and in the right way. The zaniness of Ilana (the character) and the ineptness of Abbi (the character) no longer seemed fun. They (the characters, and the creators) began to see it too, and now they have left the stage open for all those other best-friend duos out there. Brilliant!

I thought he was very hot in the equally out-there “Dig”, and THEN found out that he had been Lucius Malfoy.

Language, young man, language!

And the gospels are pretty thin history, when you get down to it.

No no no - the unnamed “sinner of the town” who anointed Jesus’s head has been taken to be a prostitute; Mary of Bethany was the sister of Martha and Lazarus and also anointed Jesus; Mary Magdalene was a disciple, had “7 demons” cast out of her, and was the first to see Jesus after his resurrection. Confused? Quiz on…

If people weren’t so timid about offending everyone, there are so many ways she can be portrayed that haven’t already been done to death:

The one time I did get sick from leftover rice is when I made a rice stuffing for chicken and left it in the chicken overnight. Note to self: don’t leave stuffing in the bird.

A lot of people seem to be dying in their nineties, which I guess we can’t complain about too much. If people are under 75 it seems too young.

Prodded by a sense of duty, the AV Club man’s recent enthusiastic response to “Wonder Woman”, and an infuriating National Geographic article on child brides i.e. forced marriages of girls, I went to see “Captain Marvel”. I don’t know the Avengers from the Justice League, I don’t know Nick Fury from Billy Fury, but I…

During the months you are still at home, make a note of your sweaters or hoodies that are warm but of thin material, so you don’t have to lug a bulky piece. Leggings can go on under pants. A thick cotton pashmina-type scarf doesn’t take up a lot of room but can add some warmth of you need it.

Looking forward to this one. I’m not so much into comics, but I am devoted to Celtic lore, so May 2020 feels like a long time to wait!