Are you the guy who recently rode the E train? Is that what you were up to?

Or did Gawker reaquire Fleshbot?

That could not have been a serious comment and I'm not sure we even have Pizza Hut. But speaking of pizza and other Italian food, I love Otto, which has been around for a while and is not exactly a secret. Beautiful dining room and a great location right at the foot of Fifth Avenue. VERY kid-friendly though, so things…

I used to go to this little hole in the wall Chinese restaurant and the fortunes were like this. Once I got one that was something like "If you do not have enough money for life there are ways to get more." Oh? And what are those? Another one was like a travel advisory, something like "Normally your trip is successful…

She wrote an autobiography, "Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman." It's still in print and it's fascinating.

It is! A little googling reveals that this is it:

My mother's (grandmother's) sewing machine would not have looked out of place in Downton Abbey. It was in this cabinet and you opened the lid and flipped it upright. It weighed more than I do now, and I'm a big guy. Your groovy "Come On Get Happy" sewing machine sounds great.

Oh, those are new to me. I'm also 100 years old apparently. My mother tried to teach me her craft using a pedal-powered sewing machine. It was her mother's. She also taught me how to knit and crochet, talents I have sadly lost. She tried to teach me these things because they require concentration and GOT ME TO BE…

They're called "pinking shears."

Young girls have an uncanny ability to really dig right in. I was at a wedding with my very young niece, she must have been about five, and wanted to dance, dance, dance. So I took her out on the dance floor and after a couple of minutes asked me if we could go back and sit down. Once we were at the table she said, "I…

I'm actually in agreement with you, and I don't find any of it ridiculous. I know quite a few Jewish people ("some of my best friends" but in my case it's true) who won't buy German cars and that's why I off-handedly threw in that comment, to make my experience seem a little more relevant. I doubt there are many…

I don't want to get into a misery debate but the person who told me I should not have attended the wedding in Japan was the son of a guy who served on a destroyer that was sunk beneath him with kamikazes strafing the decks and sharks waiting for the chum that would eventually appear.

There are Jewish people who won't buy German cars.

That's horrifying.

She might have been a Szechuan speaker and somehow knew the patrons were Mandarin speakers and was practicing her Mandarin in preparation for greeting the patrons at a BBQ restaurant in Atlanta. I know that it has happened to me more than once.

Crate training is an excellent thing. Dogs are pack animals but they like to have a snug little space where they can control their own environment. My aforementioned crazy black lab mix hates his crate (cage; let's be real) because he's not used to it and I'm so paranoid about the yelping annoying my neighbors that we…

If it helps any I didn't realize there was a baseball team called the San Francisco Giants. But I hate sports and am in NYC so to me Giants = drunken lunkheads wearing blue body paint.

That's from In Living Color! The funniest show ever made. So much talent. Even Jim Carrey was funny on it. And Jennifer Lopez was one of the Fly Girls! I miss the 90s so much.

I feel your pain. I too have a lab mix, a puppy no less (got him at four months, he's a little over a year now) and I have my own ballsmcgee and our dog worships him and considers me to be some kind of convenient food and treat dispenser but not good for much else. We too had a dog trainer come in but it didn't help…

You sound like a wonderful parent. When I was 11 I had an early-ish bedtime (9 PM maybe?) but on Saturday nights, much to the annoyance of my mother, my father and I would stay up reading or watching TV and we'd watch "Saturday Night Live" together. And now I'm writing this "Live...from New York!" And I probably owe…