Thank you for continuing to fight this good fight, even if it is uphill and against the hordes. I have learned from you that true shade requires insight, wit and a delicate self-constraint, all in short supply just now.

Only semi-relevant, but: “So I Married An Ax Murderer” is the most underrated comedy of all time.

I’ve always loved that scene in the elevator. It says what it needs to say without banging us over the head with it.

Love Something Wild. I saw it as a kid on cable and it just stuck with me as a little gem of a film. It’s also an early part for Ray Liotta, and you see why he got Goodfellas.

Best concert movie I’ve ever saw. None of that “behind the scenes” yakitty shit. Just plenty of the stuff that made you interested in the subject in the first place: their music.

Uh, no, being with her grandchildren, who were actually suffering, over trying to appease people who had nothing to do with it was exactly the right thing to do.

Both of ya’ll need to read his book, “The Psychopath Test.”

Hearty recommendation also for Jon Ronson’s Them: Travels with Extremists. It was published in 2001, but it’s still extraordinarily relevant; he concentrates on the people on the fringes of the social, religious and political spectrum who have just become louder and louder and more mainstream in the period since 9/11.…

British journalist, has done a lot of quirky in-depth investigative/gonzo journalism. You may be familiar with the Clooney/Ewan McGregor flick “The Men Who Stare at Goats” adapted loosely from one of his nonfiction books. Elephant in the Room was his work from his time last summer exploring Trump rallies and the…

FFS...what exactly would you suggest he do about the “issue” of his white mother?

I has the opposite experience. I watched the movie in Oman, where I live and almost all of the audience was Omanis. I thought for sure most people weren’t going to “get it,” but except for a few jokes here and there people seemed pretty in tune to the movie. Obviously, the Middle East has it’s own issues in regards to…

Instead of linking to Amazon, could you include links to Powell’s or The Strand instead? Powell’s is union and an actual store. Here’s a link to this awesome-sounding book: http://www.powells.com/book/city-of-light-city-of-poison-murder-magic-the-first-police-chief-of-paris-9780393239782/62-0 The Strand: http://www.str…

Loved. That. Book. The idea of this morphine addicted teenager feigning the role of an immortal widower! I re read it a few years ago, it really holds up.

My introduction to this period was also a novel, The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley. I first read it when I was a teenager and figured it was all made up...got a surprise in college when I learned the Affair of the Poisons and all the black masses and so on really happened!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And then the murders begin.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of good receipts is delivering a read, not shade.”

As was Raymond Luxury Yacht (pronounced ‘Throatwobbler Mangrove’).  

Yeah, all this did was make me want to hang out with Maxine.

My favorite eyeliner is the one somebody else applies perfectly to my face.

My favorite eyeliner is the one somebody else applies perfectly to my face.