I think he was a bit embarrassed about his family history. He moved to California & married someone else. Sorry to say, he died several years ago.

Thanks so much for publishing this interview!! I’m dying to read the book!!!

Family-friendly, really? With Mark Wahlberg? He’s an uneducated racist hypocrite. He beat the snots out of TWO Asian men ... one lost an eye. Of course Mark Wahlberg is Catholic. Goes to confession every day ... wants the assault convictions expunged from his record. Because, now that he has children, he is…

I’m very happy for them but wouldn’t the portmanteau more properly be “Julena”?

I guess there must be a few individual Papa John’s pizza locations that are more or less O.K. But corporately, they are assholes.

Here’s my scariest racist story ... I have others. A cousin, now deceased, was membership secretary for a KKK chapter in rural Maryland in the 1970s. I only found this out when I was looking for the bathroom at his house & saw a 2" stack of KKK membership applications. He married his first wife, who was Japanese, in…

They’re just what we used to call water shoes. I wore them all the time when I lived at the beach.

Cross-domain access was denied, so I couldn’t watch. But for whatever reason, there are lots of stories & pics of tits on Jezebel today.

I loved the book, didn’t care much for the movie. I thought it would have been better with Wayne Knight, who played Newman in “Seinfeld,” as Quoyle. And Julianne Moore seems too conventionally pretty to play Wavey.

Astrology can provide insight on all kinds of people & situations. I don’t think it’s snooping at all. If someone doesn’t want to tell you what time they were born, they can just say they don’t know.

I’m too old to go to free concerts where a person has to stand around & listen to the music, or walk more than 100 feet from a parking space. Husband is in a wheelchair & even if he were not, neither one of us has the patience for this sort of thing.

Circle jerks!

That’s the one where the mother comes to visit & the dad doesn’t realize she’s there until he sees somebody’s bra hanging up to dry over the shower rod. He realizes it wouldn’t fit either of his daughters, so he starts looking for a woman with big tits in his house.

Hee! I’m from the D.C. suburbs myself & am way older than anyone in this story ... in the early 1970s I had two dates the same evening, one at 7:00, the other at 10:00. I thought I was such a badass, but I cede my badassery crown to the great Justin.

The correct phrase is “Mercury retrograde” — no “in”.

This didn’t happen to me, but to the mother of my ex-boyfriend. Her phone number was identical to the local Domino’s except for one digit. She asked Domino’s to change their number, but they didn’t, until after she started taking the orders ... LOL

I’ll happily vote for Oprah, but only if she promises to stop that singsong bullshit she does at the end of a sentence. I hate that!

Have a wonderful time ... haven’t been to Dollywood in a long time, so I don’t know what it’s like these days. But if you’re also going to Nashville, Little Big Town is doing a year’s residency at the Ryman. They’d definitely be worth seeing.

OMG yes. I went there in 1986 or ‘87, really fun! And about 10 years before that I saw her in concert & got her autograph afterward. My boyfriend & I, my sister & her boyfriend, boss & his wife all went to the concert together. I love Dolly Parton!

I watched Chef’s Table once, I think it was the first episode, & by the time it was over I absolutely hated it. Some pretentious Italian put about six tortellini across a plate & gave it a fancy name as if it were a novel or a movie, with smears of other colors of food. How could a person ever get enough to eat in…