I’m a middle-aged gay man who’s never slept with a woman. I know more about female sexual response than a straight married father?

My husband went weekly. He had Wal-Mart as a corporate client. Maybe he saw a particularly affluent slice of the area and it wasn’t actually Bentonville. I know it’s the Ozarks, but you can develop and landscape anything to appeal to executives making in the mid-6 figures and up. It definitely wasn’t Missouri, though.…

This is very true. I come from a large, loving family. My various siblings and the whole vast family network like gay me, they like my gay husband (what they’ve seen of him), they think it’s weird that we live in New York but they’re always eager to hear about it.

I have never seen this show, never been to Texas, and know very little about Waco, except that it’s where the cult was in the 90s and Baylor University is there, which, speaking of cults...

The covid-related views on immigration are hilarious. First of all, the US has one of the highest infection rates and lamest responses to this pandemic in the world, so the would-be immigrant would be risking life and limb. Upon arrival, they would find that a large part of the country considers wearing a mask inside…

Everything old is new again. My father told me more than once that his father would hand him a big pail with a secure lid every so often. He would take this empty pail to the corner candy story and hand it over. The proprietor would take it in the back, fill it with bootleg beer, and my father would schlep it home.

Since it’s late for this thread:

That’s hilarious. I have a million nieces and nephews (so it seems) and I never learn.

In the somewhat large town I grew up in there were two cemeteries. One was the town cemetery which was a great postwar amenity: all the new suburban householders were entitled to free gravesites and eternal upkeep. Veterans get flags that are replaced periodically. It’s patrolled pretty conscientiously to cut down on…

Red dye #2 for the win!

You’re up bright and early! I am too, I’m suffering from allergy-related insomnia. The weather looks awfully threatening. I think it’s Isaias, moving up to us.

I want to reply to each and every comment but I’ll just leave a huge, selective one here.

This looks perfect. I love peaches and we’re in peach season here in NYC.

For three years in a row I house-sat for a weekend for a couple of friends of mine who lived on Mulberry Street. The kick-off weekend of San Gennaro. They fled to escape the craziness. To make this even better, I had my own place with my own dog (and my own boyfriend) but I’d pack a suitcase and decamp to their apartme…

No Feast of San Gennaro this year, :(

They sell cheese curds in my supermarket in uptown Manhattan. You’ve seen a version and may have had them. Cottage cheese is made from cheese curds.

Sorry, my comment following yours was written a little sloppily. You mentioned the portrait, I really meant to repeat with emphasis, he had the Navajo code talkers pretty much right in front of that portrait, and one the FIRST things he did upon moving in was find that Jackson portrait somewhere and put it in the Oval…

Oh, let us not forget this:

This is a little off-topic but do you know where we get the phrase “room and board” from? I learned this in Bill Bryson’s At Home.

Don’t feel too bad. Until this story broke I had never heard of the Chainsmokers. And, I’ve been to the Hamptons a few times, but in a crashing at someone’s crowded share house way, sometimes a little more civilized, and didn’t realize Water Mill was part of Southampton, which is not to be confused with Westhampton,…