I do not miss the days of writing checks for $40 over at the grocery store two days before payday.

The best store for buying fountain pens, at least among those I’ve encountered, is Vroman’s in Pasadena. (Unfortunately, their website doesn’t do them justice.) If you’re looking for fountain pens from a variety of manufacturers (like Cross, Waterman, Montblanc, Parker, Lamy, Sheaffer) and at a variety of price points…

The best store for buying fountain pens, at least among those I’ve encountered, is Vroman’s in Pasadena.…

My best friend was around that age when he was bar mitzvah’d. I wish Miley Cyrus had performed.

Bernstein responded to the NYT’s response to his reubuttal, also in the New York Review of Books. He noted that the “Times’s editors do not deal with the second of the main points I made in my critique, that the experience of the salon worker featured in the story, the twenty-year-old recent immigrant from China, Jing…

Once I had one, I kicked myself for waiting so long to get one.

Once I had one, I kicked myself for waiting so long to get one.

I’ve had a KitchenAid Classic Stand Mixer since 2006, and it is still going strong after nine years. I do a LOT of baking, and it handles cookie dough very well. I’m not a bread baker, so I can’t say how it would handle bread doughs. I have the meat-grinder attachment, and it works great.

I’ve had a KitchenAid Classic Stand Mixer since 2006, and it is still going strong after nine years. I do a LOT of…

If it’s not important enough for a real camera, a good phone is sufficient.

If it’s not important enough for a real camera, a good phone is sufficient.

I’m not saying I agree with her—I’m American!—but I don’t think Theresa May cares whether he means it.

Agreed. On the other hand, he sang “Rape a pregnant bitch and tell my friends I had a threesome” twelve days ago.

I once took a rented Mustang into a Times Square intersection and remained there after the light turned red. (I couldn’t move.) The cop literally yelled at me before he gave me a ticket. I was stupid. I learned my lesson.

None of them are funnier than the Toyota Turd TRD.

I love/hate that thing where they get really close to someone who is attempting to grab them and then bolt.

Did you guys break Consumer Reports? The website seems to be down.

Have women infiltrated farting? I thought that was still just us.

When I was about 12, my mom forced me to visit a local attorney and ask for a job as an “office boy.” There was no posted job; Mom just thought it would be good for me. The attorney was polite, but she wasn’t hiring. I was so, so, so embarrassed.

It’s interesting that this is happening as more and more devices use solid-state drives that would presumably reduce access time for the pagefile.

We know someone whose C-class Mercedes mysteriously ran into a tree, in broad daylight, necessitating the purchase of a new car. I think his husband ended up getting a Porsche, giving him the 5-series BMW instead.

He could bring me to tears of laughter in a way no other SNL comedian ever has. If he was playing one note, he played it brilliantly.

I can’t tell whether the agents the author queried using her own name were the same agents she’d queried before. If so, that could affect their willingness to read additional submissions by someone with the same name. (I realize that’s not going to explain the entire phenomenon; it just seems like a potential partial…

I like having the choice between aspartame (which causes memory problems for me) and sucralose (which makes me depressed).