Have you ever been to Britain or Northern Europe? They get very inventive with pizzas (corn, peas, potatoes, all kids of stuff.) But they really go to town with cheese. Mozzarella is not the default. I’ve had cheddar, blue cheese, emmenthaler, God knows what else. I also think that pizza ovens per capita are very low,…

Of course they deep fry pizza and God bless ‘em. I’m the only non-Scot I know who not only enjoys Scotch eggs but makes his own.

Romans do it. They make sheet pizzas like the Neapolitans and when you get to the counter it’s sold by weight, not by slice. An etto is 100 grams, and the various pizzas are priced by etto.

No one can know the details around QEII’s family planning. Well, presumably she and Philip do. And whether there was family planning at all. Can you imagine if word leaked that QEII was using or practicing some kind of birth control in the 1950s? No you couldn’t, because no one would ever divulge it and no media…

The men tend to be fatty so I’d go for the trophy wives. I think they’d be lean and gamey, like venison.

The Lion of the Senate! Did you know that there is a (presumably small) group of diehards who send out social media blasts every year on the anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s birth and death? These occur about a week apart, in July. One of my sisters lives in Massachusetts and a few years ago ran into an elderly woman…

We bought our apartment on spec so we didn’t see it until the day we and all other new owner moved in. I love mostly everything about it. It’s very big by Manhattan standards, that’s how we were able to carve out and entire extra room for the home office.

We bought our apartment on spec so we didn’t see it until the day we and all the other new owners moved in. I love mostly everything about it. It’s very big by Manhattan standards, that’s how we were able to carve out an entire extra room for the home office.

I wonder when it is supposed to end though. With Diana’s death? If Debicki is signed on for seasons 5 and 6 I suppose 5 will be the wedding and the cracks in the marriage and 6 its breakdown, her death, and the aftermath. I love The Crown but I bet I won’t love Season 6. Like a lot of people I was an adult when Diana…

I wonder when it is supposed to end though. With Diana’s death? If Debicki is signed on for seasons 5 and 6 I suppose 5 will be the wedding and the cracks in the marriage and 6 its breakdown, her death, and the aftermath. I love The Crown but I bet I won’t love Season 6. Like a lot of people I was an adult when Diana…

I’m a tall man (6'4") and I get those wistful comments from men, “I wish I were that tall!” Have you ever explained to your envious friends how uncomfortable it is to be tall? Fitting into the back seat of a car, flying economy? Overhead lights and ceilings fans that drop a little low? I have bumped my head more than…

I meant to say very tall but since I’m in the grays my comment was difficult to find and the editing window had closed.

If Diana, born 1961, grew to be 5'10" she must have been tall for her cohort. I’m not that much younger than her and I’m tall (I’m a man) and I don’t remember going to college with a lot of women that tall. I mention her age only because each decade people on average get a little taller. For all I know in 20 years…

If this is true and is revealed and USWeekly is still in print I will buy a keepsake edition.

I always attribute the longevity of my relationship/marriage to the fact that we were platonic roommates first. I could well imagine life with him because I was already living with him. We were right out of college and had little money so we’d go to work at our entry-level corporate jobs and then hang out at home…

Have you ever had anything drop on you from the bedroom ceiling while you were sleeping? This is a recurring theme among my ex-pat friends. They all live in Sydney and Melbourne or its near-in suburbs, they’re not in the outback. Spiders mostly, but you have something, we’d call them salamanders, do you call them that…

I was wondering how you got that mirror effect on the table! I thought it was some kind of super high-gloss treatment of a polymer or something.

Of COURSE you’re in Australia! You must have heard the joke that everything in Australia, all the flora and fauna, will try to kill you?

Have you ever heard this song?

JCO is so prolific. I don’t think anyone on earth publishes as much as she does. Tom Clancy and James Patterson have/had lots of ghostwriters working under their names, and she makes them look like Harper Lee and she does it all herself.