I know - it’s irritating. We’re not six-year-olds.

I’m afraid I’ve been romantically I mean sexually obsessing about several of the characters myself. When/where is season 4 going to appear? I was careful to read the books only up to where they were on the show and then finishing the relevant book after the season was over.

Wait... isn’t that a different part of the anatomy?

He is of course mistaken, though I don’t think superheroes visiting each other’s shows counts, nor does appearing on the Simpsons, which is almost by definition meta.

I may still have an LP of his that I bought in the mid-70s. Which means he was only about my age (ulp). I used to sing along to “Shine on Harvest Moon”, “Diddy Wah Diddy”, and “Nobody’s Sweetheart”. Buried treasures from pre-Depression days.

Perhaps the real death knell for the Hollywood musical came with “Paint Your Wagon”: $20 million 1968 dollars to show Clint Eastwood singing.

Several years ago I was in a thrift shop and NPR was playing on the sound system: an interview with an American woman who had gone to Ukraine to interview a community of elderly women who had returned to their homes in the Chernobyl area. When asked if they weren’t concerned about the radiation, they shrugged, “We…

Slightly older, but I didn’t care for it so much, either. I had only read one adaptation of a P.L. Travers book, so Julie Andrews, great as she was, was too young and pretty for the role. Hepburn was perfect in “Charade”, but too much a movie star for “My Fair Lady”. She studied singing, though, because even with the…

Also good as little cat toys: fuzzy enough to appeal to a cat, can be twisted into a shape so the cat can run around with one in its mouth (RIP Susie).

I enjoyed 4th grade, but some of those other grades? I would have taken a tipple myself.

Sadly, me too. I wish lesbians could just be lesbians.

Freeze the broccoli. It’s not difficult and all you need is a pot, a strainer, and ziplock freezer bags (which you could buy in bulk?).

A little late to the party but I wanted to share this: Sunday I was doing my usual channel-checking, stopped on CometTV which shows old science fiction movies and TV shows and materialized in my cable package. Scene of a man in silhouette on a hill, a horse nearby. Nothing happening. Pan to a campsite - what year is…

They vary - the earlier ones weren’t very explicit, some being serious literature like “The Price of Salt” (Carol) or “We Too Are Drifting” packaged as racy pulp, and as the decades went by, say Fifties and Sixties (like Nautipuss, which doesn’t even pretend to be serious) they get more porny. So they range from…

However, sometimes they do have a modest selection of things that can be trotted out when a visitor just wants to see “cool stuff”, without having to display the gems of the collection.

I actually prefer to sit by the window. That way if it’s bumpy I can look outside and see that the plane is in fact stable relative to the ground. I was sitting in the middle section on a flight that went through a thunderstorm, and it was so turbulent that I was too terrified to shriek.

I have taken to reading books in a foreign language as a way to focus my attention. I also prefer to break up the journey into 2 shorter flights instead of 1 longer one; since I survived the first flight I’m more relaxed on the second one. This might not be very feasible if you’re going to Europe from the US, though,…

And sing!

Wasn’t she married to someone big?

Perhaps to prove your point, I would be unable to distinguish any of the actresses in a line-up.