Sometimes the manager of the theater had to get one of his friends to dress up if the costume wasn’t made for a tall lanky doofus but rather a short stocky man.

It’s just the standard hipster move of taking something that’s objectively good and pretending that you hate it in order to prove how cool and unique you are.  (The inverse works as well where the hipster takes something objectively bad and pretends to love it.)

I had to look that one up.

I saw the picture and the price and initially thought: “Well, in a market where people are paying over MSRP for Hyundai and Kia SUVs, maybe this Porsche is a bargain. People seem to really like the Cayenne.”

It’s not just hardtop convertibles that are in decline but all affordable convertibles. Not long ago, you could get softtop versions of the Cavalier, Sunfire, Sebring, Beetle, Eclipse... heck even a fricking Camry (Solara), but they’ve all since gone away.

Once on a trip to California while staying in a major chain hotel (Hilton or Hyatt or Marriott), there was a knock at my door the night I checked in. I was greeted to a plate of fresh chocolate chip cookies, a bottle of water, and a hand-written thank-you note for staying there. I’m a rewards member, but not…

Any suggestions on how spectators can become better fans of the judged events?  Gymnastics seems to be the crowd favorite, but I’ve always struggled to get into it.  Everything that the athletes do looks amazing to me, and I have no idea what the judges are looking for to assign their scores.  Similarly, I love…

Pro surfer Kelly Slater built a pretty rad wave pool in central/inland California in an attempt to fabricate the ultimate wave.

I don’t know enough about Qvales (Qvalae?) to comment on the car, but I want to talk about the garage. I’m sure it’s very fancy and very expensive, but looking at it makes me uncomfortable. I hate walking over any type of grates, so that big mesh area out front gives me anxiety. And the overall design with the big…

I think you’re right.  I was equally surprised to see how many people were clamoring to go on cruises again, too.

Ok, if I have to have my car in shades of gray, I at least want to get this pattern.

I guess one doesn’t get to senior VP level by flinging candy around willy-nilly.  He probably didn’t even sing either.  He’s got to suppress all those urges in order to maintain a level of professionalism.  It all gets bottled up, and then he walks through the door of his house and starts tossing candy around his…

On one of my first trips to a restaurant post-vaccination, I was pretty surprised to see that they had the salad bar back up and open for business — no modifications at all from pre-pandemic procedures. I thought for sure that those wouldn’t be coming back and that years into the future I’d tell my grandkids stories…

My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, and I acknowledge that some people work not because they need to but because they truly love what they do.

“There are essentially four seasons that make up the year in candy,” Chris Gindlesperger, the senior vice president for public affairs and communications for the National Confectioners Association, explained to me

I suppose his lifestyle is pretty different than mine.  He enjoys getting married and divorced many more times than I do, and he has crashed more sports cars than I.  Those expenses probably add up pretty quickly.

Every time I see Kelsey Grammer acting (and especially when he’s playing Frasier Crane) it depresses me a little bit.

Mockolate.

I haven't been reading the site quite as long, but I agree that this series is my favorite feature. 

I love the Changli updates because I have never seen someone so enamored with a machine as you are with it. The pure joy on display here is delightful.