Don't forget the hair oil. Oily smoke is my first impression of my dad.

Vincent Price is an American actor that would meet those criteria as well - just always good, even if what he was in, wasn't.

An area in the Northeast of China - basically three provinces: Jilin, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang, close to Russia and North Korea. Dongbei is the area, -ren means person from (Meiguo-ren - American, Zhunguo-ren - Chinese).

I saw this with my wife who is a Dongbei-ren. A lot of propaganda, heavy armed forces angle, pictures of Mao (who nobody applauded) and Deng Xiaoping (who many people applauded). Xi Jinping is a scary guy. I think China will be slipping back into Mao territory soon, and they'll be losing many of the very small…

The Germans were pretty awesome. Otto Dix and George Grosz are still two of my favorite artists. They did to art what Fritz Lang and the UFA gang did to film. The French side was a little…precious, but even they had Man Ray, Dali, and Bunuel (who aren't French, but I associate them there).

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The smirk that launched a thousand fists.

Smug, sure-of-themselves atheists are as annoying to me as the other side. Apparently no-god is OK with hookers though.

Vere have I been? I've been alive, und vell, und livink in Argentina"! (pause) "you know, chust like that old choke." (pause) "Hello, is dis ting on?"

Would you like some hors d'oeuvres? Because we must have hors d'oeuvres.

That's the One Weird Trick!

Love the spas though! This one has a room with a raised heated floor where you can lay down afterwards, with a regular pillow or one of those hard wooden ones. Relaxation at its finest. I really need a soak soon.

I go to this Korean spa in Santa Clara sometimes, with a Jacuzzi, a sauna, a steam room, a hot water bath, and a really cold water bath. Generally I am the only one who speaks English there, as the other languages you hear are Russian or Korean. Anyway, I hear the women speak with the receptionist in the waiting room…

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I had a P200 for a long time. I thought about getting back into it, but last year I was riding down Old Oakland Road in San Jose on my bike, and another club member rode by on his P150 (a modern, two-stroke Vespa with a metal frame, so it looks somewhat vintage). I smelled that two-stroke exhaust for two minutes, long…

As an ex-member of the Vespa Club of Los Gatos, I approve this message.

Do you think that Yeshiva's financial problems were mostly due to Madoff? A serious question. They invested in a lot of hedge funds in the mid-2000s. As for this series, I'll probably watch it tonight, and my 82-year-old WASPy mom is here, so I can give a report tomorrow whether to be worried or not. It's obvious that…

Cabin nothing! We're talking mansion here.

He could fight a fire, before it starts to flame / That's why they call him Smokey, that's how he got his name. Why I can remember this is beyond me.

I'm hoping more Barton Fink, less Hudsucker. Hudsucker was just a little too screwball for my tastes.