Or else that aspirin and Coke would get you high. My friends and I tried that in junior high but we just got giddy like any other 14-year-olds.

“[Starring] Rob Dyrdek and friends Sterling Brim and Chanel West Coast...”

In other words, a young Matt Damon.

Who? (I need to get out more.)

Yes, but it’s nice to be in the kitchen and feel some heat. I just have to remember not to open the door until after taking the food out of the pot, or I might drip it into the oven.

It’s like any other bad-for-you treat, like alcohol, butter, mescaline: just keep it down to the occasional shot, don’t drink an entire glass unless you are totally out of milk. For that matter you can substitute half and half for light cream in alcoholic drinks. That way you can get your naughty fat and your naughty…

Confession time: I had the original Mr Potato Head in the early Fifties when you used an actual potato. When they switched to plastic (fake) potatoes I disdained them, but decades later as a parent I appreciated it when they gave the body a compartment large enough to fit all the little pieces inside so you wouldn’t…

I never knew anything about the movie except that the immortal Marvin Gaye composed the music. The haunting theme song is on his greatest-hits album. I’ll try to check out the film and relive my youth.

Hollywood is a very very strange terrain to navigate. Some actors who worked steadily as children and teens are able to spend the rest of their lives in their profession, like Hayley Mills (the original star of the show when it was “Good Morning, Miss Bliss) or Jodie Foster; others say, “That was fun, but I’m having a …

My husband had similar feelings of malaise for some months, was wheezing, finally went to a pulmonary specialist and found he had a malignant tumor in between his lungs, thus inoperable. He did chemo and radiation but was gone in a little over a year, not yet 60. As my birthdays rack up I am grateful for every one.

Plus whatever is on the random tissue or handtowel you grab to de-fog the windshield. I don’t know who is getting *grease* on the inside of the windshield (eating a lot of french fries in the car?), but I often get frost on the inside of mine. I can scrape it off (with my greasy fingernails) but then it stands to…

I only read the books after they’ve been dramatized, so I spent the last few evenings reading Nemesis Games up to where they left off in episode 9. Even though I had just watched it, it was still a nail-biter. The point to having the crew separated for the entire book/season is that they keep asking themselves, What…

Two of my recent reads: “Wolf in White Van” by John Darnielle. I read it in two days. “Little House on the Prairie” — no, really. If you haven’t read it, it’s not just a cute story. A book of short stories, any genre: you can read half a dozen pages and feel you’ve completed something, and if you don’t like a story…

What bothers me about that is not the message itself, as I’ve known some very intellectual men who seldom read anything, but the way it’s expressed. In my opinion, “Don’t waste your time on someone who thinks vulgarity is wit.”

No, I didn’t like “The Great Gatsby” either, but so many books are often not suitable for reading by teenagers, albeit almost everthing I read back then was an adult novel. You may be unimpressed by a book at 16 and deeply impressed by it at 40.

Definitely not a knockoff. It was based on Larry McMurtry’s 1966 novel. Memories, but not nostalgia. It’s the role I always remember her for. On Dancing With the Stars she was terrible, but so much fun! Every actor should have a career like hers.

What’s the earliest TV show you remember watching?

I have been addicted to this show since the beginning but have carefully never read ahead in the books except to finish them as they correspond to each season. This season I’m finding Bull strangely appealing - must be my age.

He didn’t say that Russian Orthodox choir music gives a “strange feeling of  space and sexuality” but “space and sacrality”.

I meant 65 years.