Fall food is the best food and I eat it year round. If you have a crock pot you can make a lot of it without turning your oven on in August and heating your kitchen up to 200 degrees. I’m especially fond of roasts. People think serving a roast in August is a weird thing but if I had a yard I’d be barbecuing to…

I have a few friends who are social workers and I don’t know how you/they do it. Hats off. You’re contributing more to the world than I ever will.

So you’re not British? I was just reading about how Jeremy Corbyn is now head of the Labour Party. I’m not British but I would be a member of the Labour Party if I were. With Jeremy Corbyn it seems like the motto should be “Let’s party like it’s 1949!” Renationalize those railways, the sooner the better.

Lemon yellow in a kitchen, or any room, is the best. It’s amazing how cheerful that particular color is. I don’t know why, maybe because it mimics sunshine?

Do you have a Home Depot? They have a paint center where they give you cards with three compatible colors on it. When we bought our apartment we went to a friend of mine who is a genius with color and she looked at the card and said, “Why not do all three?” So we have a short hallway that has three paint sections,…

None of this sports talk matters. What really matters is I just realized that Riki Lindhome from Garfunkel and Oates is also the daffy sister on Another Period. I’ve always wondered why she looked so hauntingly familiar. Thank you for posting this clip!

For what it’s worth all my friends and I have abandoned the New York Times and signed up to get the Guardian’s daily summary email. We all live in New York, not London.

When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for Passover to come around. It’s not because I was Jewish, I am not, but because the supermarket would start carrying matzoh and I would butter it and eat it for an after-school snack every single day until the supply ran out. Unleavened bread FTW.

You can never go wrong with pickled herring in cream sauce. Now that the High Holidays are almost upon us the supermarkets in Manhattan are filled to overflowing with the stuff and I am stocking up. Shanah tovah!

Your butter-and-sugar sandwich-loving friend is basically eating a donut that hasn’t been deep fried. I once attempted to make my own donuts (why? Boredom. Curiosity) and they came out pretty badly, but that’s what donuts are, floury dough and butter and sugar.

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso / I fell in love with a Mexican girl / Night-time would find me in Rosa’s cantina / Music would play and Felina would whirl.

I have spent my entire life hugging the East Coast in liberal enclaves and studying and vacationing in Western Europe, where they have anti-gun laws stricter than our own, and it never ceases to amaze me that people are allowed to bring guns into bars, or anywhere really. Can I ask where you live that you have left…

I’m partial to Lucianne Goldberg’s rantings, mostly out of nostalgia. The webpage (no link, I’ll spare you) looks like it was designed during the Monica Lewinsky era and never updated. Going there makes me feel young again.

I think they did it that way at the insistence of relatives of the firefighters who died, and many of the relatives are/were firefighters themselves. So many firefighters died (343) they wanted to keep them grouped by station house, because they were like families. And then they did everyone that way, or as many as…

That’s hilarious. What is that from?

Once you get onto the site itself and ignore the idiots with the selfies it’s actually a very moving and reflective experience. Where the two towers stood is now a duo of basins where water cascades in and the rims are lined in granite with the names of those who died. The names are not arranged alphabetically, but by…

By the way, I have extensive experience of Boston, DC, and New York, have driven in all three cities many times, and the thought of maneuvering a Winnebago in any of them haunts my nightmares. Your friends’ parents must have been fearless. Especially with kids thrown in the back. Or even worse, were you teenagers?

So this is really sacreligious: what’s really missing from the Memorial Park is a full-scale replica of W standing atop some rubble shouting nonsense into a bullhorn. Maybe it could be animatronic.

This is my third 9/11-related comment in this thread.

Our anniversary is August 8th! I will totally be thinking of you forever more.