I often wonder, though, where documentation ends and sadistic fantasies begin.

The tomatoes might keep better without freezer burn if you pour them into a freezer bag and seal it up so there is little or no air inside. It doesn’t matter if it’s just half a cup. Then you can just defrost (partially is fine) the whole bag and pour the contents into whatever you need stewed tomatoes for. You can…

I am currently in the middle of “Circe”. Brilliant, chilly. I haven’t read Song of Achilles but may give it a go. Just finished “Ancient Magic: a practitioner’s guide to the supernatural in Greece and Rome” by Philip Matyszak, which is both witty and well-informed. I’m also reading Elaine Sciolino’s “The Seine: the Riv…

I began watching The Clone Wars, not having seen any of it when it was on earlier, so I thought I’d start catching up from the beginning. Of course I did exactly what they tell you not to do, i.e. stare at the laptop right before going to bed, so there were various monsters and creatures from my own imagaination…

Tom Clancy basically said the same thing after 9/11 when he was queried about a scenario in one of his novels that had terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers. “There are enough cockamamie ideas out there already, you don’t need me to think them up.”

I have seen “Any Responsible Adult 2020".

I knew about this at the time, yet I’ve never been able to see the scars.

The viewer has to accept this as unabashed silliness, Mad Magazine-style, or there’s no point in watching it.

This all makes me nervous. I saw a copy of my birth certificate about 40 years ago and as I recall it had no first name on it because I hadn’t been named yet. In any event, my first name was different than the one I use now, but I changed it as a teenager (by common law, i.e I just started using the new name), so by 18…

Just finished watching Newman’s original Narcos series, so depending on who stars in it, this could be excellent.

I’ve been going to the movies alone for decades. In small theatres I sit in the back row so no one will sit behind me. I have a cookie or bring a cocktail in a thermos (by the time the movie is over, I’m sober). I get my money’s worth and stay through the end credits.

For the record, Our President’s mother may have been an American citizen when he was born, but she was born in another country (Scotland) and grew up speaking a language other than English (Gaelic).

Fun fact: this Silver Fox may be the first person of Maori descent to win an Oscar, but legend of the silver screen Merle Oberon was part Maori and was also nominated.

I didn’t like Kristen Wiig’s side-boob.

Sadly, this more or less happened to my 80-year-old uncle while on his daily walk. At least poor Orson died quickly.

I used to make a point of watching the Tonight Show when Orson Bean and Tony Randall were on (pre-Odd Couple). In those days I was never sure what their claim to fame actually was, but they were such fascinating raconteurs it was a pleasure to listen to them. Orson Bean might talk about a Summerhill-type school in Gree…

I sniggered at that line until I became a parent myself and didn’t do much better.

Maybe Hayley Mills was lucky when her parents didn’t even tell her she’d been awarded an Oscar as Best Child Actor (no longer given).

But it took another actor to try to put it into perspective for him.

“There aren’t a lot of movies about divorce”? There are tons of movies about divorce, going back 90 years! Katherine Hepburn’s first movie was “Bill of divorcement”.