Maybe the money the administration saved by not having an Ambassador to the UK yet.

I have had very few negative experiences with total strangers, and it’s possibly because I’m not remembering them. I’ve always believed that these people are to be pitied, and to be thankful that I’m not them. People can disagree with me, get angry with me, laugh at me when I do something stupid (not unheard of) but…

That sounds yummy! I too will be roasting a (leg of) lamb today, though it’s supposed to get into the mid-high 80s. Nothing like having the oven on for 2+ hours in that kind of heat. This will be a test for our Ambassador Hotel-like air conditioning units.

That Macallan is the good stuff! Drink it now before the radiation poisoning sets in and you’re unable to appreciate it.

I think Charlotte got the better end of the deal. Look at William and Harry: who do you think has had/is having more fun? I think the best job on earth must be “sibling of popular (eventual) monarch.”

I’m guessing they’ll go with something like this:

That photo would have made an excellent ad a for a men’s cologne carried by CVS in the 80s.

I think the strangest thing about Prince Charles is the way he seems to straddle a world long past and a world yet to be. The workforce involved to get him up and ready to face the public would staff a small department store, but when he does face the public he goes on about sustainable agriculture and a…

Michael Dukakis is still alive. Don’t count him out.

William Holden Disease:

Read Dead Wake, Larson’s book about the Lusitania. In a way the story is even more tragic than what happened to the Titanic. For one thing it happened on a beautiful spring morning and the passengers would have seen the west coast of Ireland.

I’ll make room on the couch, because someone at Jezebel, maybe even Madeleine Davies herself, whose writing I love by the way ifthere’sanywayIcangetoutofthegrays, has changed it to populace.

So that’s why they call Chicago “that toddlin’ town.” I never knew what the word was supposed to mean.

I only care that the word in the first sentence should be populace, the noun, not populous, the adjective.

I never saw OJ, I watched the trial play out in real time and that was bad enough. Maybe I will though. I once took a blue van or whatever it’s called from LAX to my LA home, the Beverly Hilton, and one of the passengers got off first, somewhere on Bundy Drive. The rest of us were agog, thinking this must be near the…

Oh, Jerry, I knew I’d lure you in with Princess Lee bait on my hook. How are you doing anyway? Keeping up with Feud?

Please tell me footage of this high school performance exists.

There is a surviving letter somewhere written by a Jewish German man circa 1938. I only saw it republished in a book many years ago and I’ve forgotten the details. He is assuring his relatives in America that while Jews are going through a particularly difficult time at the moment he himself should be fine, because he…

Are you talking about the last image? It’s very Lee Radziwill on a Greek island circa 1972 pretending that her older sister isn’t married to the guy who owns half the country.