I love Gloria Steinem, to the point that I know she recently turned 80.

When she came out with "Potential New Boyfriend" (31 years ago!) she won the hearts of gay men the world over.

"Barack Obama has invited you to join Facebook."

I would imagine it more as egg, enzyme, and sperm are in a bar and enzyme is pretty hot looking and gets egg drunk and, like a good wingman, says, "have you met my friend sperm?"

I may be hallucinating this but I seem to remember thinking, more than once, why is Peggy wearing flats to work at a Manhattan ad agency in 1960-whatever? Did women wear flats to the office in 1960-whatever? Maybe this explains it!

Did you live in the Dude Dorm?

A friend of mine went on an Internet date and when the date, who described himself on his profile as middle-aged, showed up it was a little awkward. The date revealed that he was actually 64. My friend asked, "Do you expect to live to be 128?"

I starred you only to assure you that nothing in your story indicates to (Christian) me that your mother did anything particularly out of the ordinary. The film society is no doubt grateful for her support over the years and was probably sad to hear of the death and wanted to do something "in lieu of flowers", and…

That's basically tapas. Seemingly overnight 100 tapas restaurants appeared in NY a few years ago. So much fun. So much food. So much bill because everything costs $6 or $8 or whatever but you order many, many of them, and wine, and no one's keeping track except for the server.

It sounds like a perfect Urban Dictionary term.

If you bake desserts with sour cream they come out richer and moister. Look up a few brownie or cake recipes. Many dips are sour cream-based, and I whip those up pretty frequently. But then again I buy sour cream by the quart and like to throw it in wherever I can (it's a really good sauce ingredient) and whenever I'm…

You may not be hearing curated much in the near future. I remember vividly where I was the first ime I heard someone use the term in a non-art world context. Fall, 2008. He was describing the selection at a small, upscale food market. I haven't heard anyone actually say it in a year, at least. When people stop using a…

I always thought the Frasier apartment was somewhat plausible because it was Seattle in the 90s, before all the Microsoft money really started pouring in, and Frasier was a successful psychiatrist with a successful radio show, and it was just him and Daphne and Dad, who was a retired cop, so he probably had a pretty…

Many years ago the New York Times did a piece on what sitcom apartments might cost. This must have been the 90s, maybe even the early 90s, and even then, before our insane real estate bubble of the last 20 years, it was completely implausible for the characters to live where and how they were living. One broker…

If you both own Corgis and went through obedience training together half the battle is won. This was meant to be, and I'm not being snarky. And maybe the guy had some weight issues himself? Men who lose weight actually get stretch marks and flabby skin even in their teens and 20s.

Based on no experience whatsoever I would imagine that if you listed your occupation as nanny landlords would be happy to take you. It means that you're responsible and people trust you to look after their children. If I were a landlord and it were between a nanny and a "thought leader at a disruptor start-up in a…

I would guess they're getting some kind of tuition break or a free pass. Not that the school needs the publicity but forevermore the Obama children are going to be on the alumni rolls. I'm pretty sure Chelsea Clinton went to the same school.

I will agree with you.

Do you live in a city where regular bars allow for spontaneous dancing? Like something good comes on the sound system and people can't help themselves? I live in NY where this is technically illegal, you need a "cabaret" license to have dancing, and Giulini was just obsessed with this, but things seem to have eased up…

To Serve Man is a good one. There are lots of people I'd like to see board a ship...