Most of those south Jersey towns have really nice rental houses, and well-maintained downtowns though, whereas Old Orchard seems to have mostly just small hotels that have seen better days. I’m denying some of the similarities, but the south Jersey shore mostly feels alive and thriving, which is the exact opposite “bar…

If you included patties, I think Jimmy Dean’s could have placed pretty high.

That escalated rather quickly...

I would say that Old Orchard Beach, though, is quite a bit more run down than most of the Jersey Shore towns (or at least, the shore points I’m most familiar with in Cape May and Atlantic counties). Maybe it’s not as bad as Atlantic City (few ocean-front towns are), but comparable only to perhaps some of the more…

Try going through the interior of the state east to west (or vice versa). That’s real Stephen King country.

Athough I'll take Maine over anyplace in NY anyday, especially NYC, Old Orchard Beach really isn't coastal Maine at its finest. If this was the location the columnist primarily visited, I understand the negative impression.

AI basically collates human behavior, and since we humans decidedly awful creatures, how could an AI rapper not spout out offensive lyrics?

Being able to settle down on my piano at night has greatly benefitted my sanity (among other things).  I’m really not good enough to even perform with an amateur group, but just the pursuit is enough to satisfy an artistic need.

“our shrimpy hero Robert, a college senior who should be headed off to art school (he’s an amazing cartoonist). His mentor is an off-beat art teacher at his Princeton, New Jersey (e.g. wealthy) high school, Mr. Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis).”

This scene popped into my mind after reading your comment:

The only thing I can add is I had never heard of this film, but looking it up, was surprised to see it was directed by Halina Reijn, who’s done a lot of good work in Dutch-language movies and TV.  If there actually was a lot of cleavage in this film, well... Dutch cinema isn’t exactly shy about showing off the human…

It seems pretty easy to imagine what this stuff must taste like, and if it’s anything like what I’m imagining, count me in.  If it melts like Nutella, maybe a sweet crepe would work.

In the first decade or so of Epcot’s existence, Disney seemed to emphasize actually visiting the countries after getting a small sampling at the park. Much like the World’s Fairs that Epcot was originally based on. But I guess somewhere along the way they discovered that they could make more money selling their own…

Were those the bao buns at Tropical Hideaway? I found one of them to be rather spicy. Not uncomfortably spicy (I have a pretty low tolerance), but just enough to give it a nice kick.

The same way chocolate can be a part of any number of treats from countries that don’t grow cacao, or tea can be a traditional English beverage.  

A extabulous fantasmaxample of why The Simpsons was an absolutely brilliant show at its peak.

Because I’m too lazy to look this up... CW wasn’t included in the sale of Warner Media to Discovery, or did Warner no longer own it?

That would be the assumption, but from everything I read, the threat consisted of a single line “Don’t worry you are next” after she tweeted support for Rushdie and condemned the attacker.  Kind of vague, unless there was more included that what was reported.

As an aside, the controversey over The Satanic Verses occurred right around the time when the ritual Satanic abuse panic peaked. In my grade school brain at the time, I had the two mistakenly linked, like Rushdie wrote a book about how to conduct a Satanic ritual, and that’s why people wanted to kill him. In the…

I've never read it, but doesn't the third dream sequence make fun of Khomeini? I wonder if that's what really got him the fatwa.