A hungover 70s couch.

Andre 3000

Boogie Nights. With my mom coming down to say, “Whatcha watching?” and then take a seat. At least I was an adult, but still . . .

If you have young readers who are interested in this stuff, E. L. Koenigsburg’s A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver is mostly about Eleanor and Henry, but Matilda is a prominent character who gets her own section of the book. It’s really well done.

I’m was a single mom until my kid was in her early 20s. When she hit middle-school age, people started saying, “Oh now she’ll start rebelling and breaking up this cozy little duo you have.” Then around age thirteen,”Okay, now you two will butt heads.” Pretty much every year until she left for college, someone decided…

Payday has enough peanuts that it can be lunch, in a pinch.

Dinkel’s on Lincoln.

I used to schlep out to a job in Naperville, and we had Portillo’s chocolate cake for every birthday celebration. (This was before there were any Portillos in the city.) Haven’t had any since I left that job, but now I WANT SOME.

There is a bakery here in Chicago that does cakes with whipped cream frosting. Not too sweet, not too heavy, and the cake itself must be very good to be clothed in such relative simplicity.”The cake,” which we got from that bakery for every celebration the whole time my daughter was growing up consists of chocolate…

Excellent point. 

This administration is scared of smart people, so they don’t hire any to do the prep.

Pronounced to rhyme (verrrry loosely) with Wisconsin. 

Captain Holt’s ex. 

Michael B Jordan looks like he’s missing half of his Baby Bjorn. Or am I missing something?

Find some 227 on youtube to see her as a teen giving Marla Gibbs as good as she got.

Stephen Fry wrote this novel twenty years ago. It’s called Making History. It’s worth reading, particularly since Michiko Kakutani hated it.

I think Katherine is the animal rescue advocate, which just adds another layer of weird to the relationship.

Twice now I’ve timed visits to my kid in NYC around movies we wanted to see together. This may be the reason for my next visit.

I definitely know which one I’d rather be stuck in an elevator with. (I live in an elevator building, so this is a very serious litmus test for me. I also think Jerry probably wears too much fragrance.)

Right? Show it, don’t say it.