Miss Manners suggested, decades ago, that serving only champagne is a great way to cut costs whilst appearing not to. People will only drink so much champagne....

But guyliner is funny....

I wish we had the kind of inexpensive, tasty “healthy” grab-and-go salads they have at Marks and Spencer in England. We lived on them on a recent trip—a grain bowl with various lentils/beans/edamame, pomegranate seeds, some greens—three quid. Split a two quid box of regionally grown berries....nom nom nom

The article was talking about replacing them once a week! Wow. Mine just doesn’t get particularly smelly, I guess.

Lemons, eggs, some kind of plain fizzy water, glass jugs of filtered tap water, Duke’s Mayonnaise, Toasted Sesame Oil, Ponzu sauce, walnuts, apples, cooked dried beans, cubed cooked chicken breast, Mestemacher German rye bread (the thin stuff that is like compressed kernels bound together with sourdough), salad…

The best way to make vegetables is steaming them in the microwave. You just rinse the glass container and done. I do not like caramelized vegetables—they taste sweet-bitter, not something I am fond of, while crisply steamed ones are just greeny-sweet. Turning on the oven heats up the kitchen, which is awful down here…

But there are helpful Wikis to bring you up to speed....I watched the original Twin Peaks when it first aired, before there were Internet recaps, etc., and despite my English degree, a lot whizzed by me unnoticed...

I am confused. I use Gmail, from Firefox. When I opened the Preferences, it told me to select from the apps on my laptop. Obviously, there’s no Gmail app. Do I select Firefox, and then what?

I find it much easier to do one thing—vacuum, dust/spray’n’wipe, toilets and sinks, etc. all through my 2000 sq.ft. 2 1/2 level house. The kitchen is clean-as-you-go, except for periodic fridge cleans (I never clean my oven—it doesn’t get very dirty)—if it is dirty, I clean it when I notice it, except the floor gets…

Amen. I cannot go to iMax movies, for example—my brain thinks I’m moving, but my body says, “No we aren’t; let’s vomit.”

As my mother has reminded me for 57 years, I was a car-sick kid (and still get inner-ear related panics when planes are turbulent or circling). One thing she figured out was that not having orange juice at breakfast greatly reduced the problem of actual vomiting, if not the nausea. I never could read or anything.…

Yeah, but....some people are in permanent, intractable pain. Saying that pain ends, by implication some means other than death, is denying their reality. Sure, for most of us, this advice is sound, but....

Because the many of them made for women have these weird half-size pockets that stuff falls out of when you sit down....

Is it dry (or drier) in Austin? I know Houston is steamy...

I know kids when I was growing up in SC who’d get what these sound like around their mouths when they’d eat a lot of tomatoes—topical reaction?

Yeah, where I grew up in South Carolina, people would eat so many tomatoes, they’d get those on their faces, but all over—wow!

After reading a Lifehacker post on dog safety, I figured out how to wedge an airline crate in the back seat of my Prius, and both my Weims fit in happily. Don’t get a hammock jobbie—keep your buddies safer. Get a crate.

After reading a Lifehacker post on dog safety, I figured out how to wedge an airline crate in the back seat of my…

I am one of the people who gets freebies from Amazon to review. I got several vacuums. I have two Weimaraners, and a house on 2 1/2 levels, with medium pile carpet upstairs, tile baths and hardwoods down. Hands down, the one I kept and love is the Shark Liftaway—I think my model is the Professional. I always use it…

I am one of the people who gets freebies from Amazon to review. I got several vacuums. I have two Weimaraners, and a…

Well, Doctors Oz and Phil do have doctoral degrees—Oz’s is in medicine, even. Dr. Laura does, too, albeit in exercise physiology, not psychology.

Men’s panama hats, especially the expensive genuine kind...