That foot on Grady!

We read The Help when it first came out in my building’s all-white, very Becca book club. (I’m white, but I’m a gay man. There must be a term for gay male Beccas.) Everyone but me loved it. Plans were made to see the movie, which someone had heard was afoot.

To be fair, I think the train stretched back to Wales in a nod to her husband’s title.

If it’s still in print I highly recommend Tina Brown’s “The Diana Chronicles.” Yes, Tina Brown of “Vanity Fair” and (gasp) “The New Yorker.” There’s a small section on what the Palace had to do to accommodate Barbara Cartland at the wedding, since she was a popular celeb herself, but not particularly liked by any of…

Maybe your Volvo’s battery was raptured? Did it live an especially godly life?

God that was horrendous. How many episodes did that last? Four? Fewer? I love Bonnie Tyler and NPH, but this is like a “Twilight Zone” episode. “So, you’re dead and you like Bonnie Tyler and NPH? Would you like to be with them for all time? Well, here you go!”

I’m white and I agree that sometimes there is no redeeming value in whiteness:

I lived down the street from the New York CP HQ in Chelsea (Manhattan) for many years. It doesn’t get candidates on the ballot because you have to meet minimum registered-voters expression of interest by signing petitions but it will endorse other candidates.

Do you know what the two-wheeled thing is in front? I went to the website but it wasn’t helpful. My black husband might be surprised that this white guy went to that particular website (we share a system and thus a browser history) but not shocked. I do a lot of work from home, a lot of it involves writing and…

Oh, I thought you were joking for exaggeration. Once an amendment is ratified by 3/4 of the states it becomes law so it doesn’t have to be unanimous. I wonder if there’s somewhere that lists what states haven’t bothered to ratify which amendments. I’m sure google has the answer but I’m too lazy.

Absolutely not. Friends of mine have done this. What can you get for two divorcés in their 40s who have lived together for a decade? I got them two nights at wherever they went at some point on their extended honeymoon. I also had a case of wine delivered so that it would arrive the day they got back, so I went…

I’ve been to dozens of weddings and I’ve seen George Foreman grills on more than one registry. On many registries I see things like place settings that cost $300 and up each and at least one half of the happy couple works part-time for minimum wage. One couple registered for some high-end crystal water pitcher that…

I’d take it. But if I registered there I’d restrict my list to the snack aisle for my and my guests’ convenience. I was going to say bakery but that stuff goes stale; I think some of their snack foods don’t have shelf lives, they have half lives, like radioactive material.

And you can’t sell Post-It notes (TM) that aren’t made by 3M. You sell “sticky notes.”

We have the same laws in godless, freewheeling New York City. Liquor and wine in the liquor stores and nowhere else. No beer, no mixers, no snacks, I think they can’t even sell cigarettes. Meanwhile the city has approximately 347,000 corner bodegas where they sell beer 24/7 (yes, you can now legally buy six packs at…

I’m pretty sure they are. Although every so often you get the sneaking suspicion that the fabulous couple profiled in the ultra-competitive Vows column must be a friend of someone at the Times. You can’t prove it, but you definitely get the feeling.

On your way from LA to Las Vegas on the 15 you’ll pass by Zzyzx before you get to Nipton/Pot Town. That’s worse.

That was a strange comment by Judas. It’s August in Houston. What other kind of suit should he be wearing? A dark green tweed?

The east coast of the US does not lack for people of Irish descent. Still, I can’t tell you the number of people who don’t what a “Siobhan” is. I’m not a “See-ob-han”, but I know plenty, and they have great stories of being in grade school and the teachers calling attendance on the first day of school.

I was hoping your name was Nestor! I’ve always really liked that name. I know it’s Greek but I’ve only ever met two Nestors and they both came from Spanish-speaking countries.