The very first episode involves them all meeting Blanche and moving in. I vaguely remember Blanche saying that she was lonely, but it’s been far far too long since I’ve seen it.

Oh God the aerobics episode! I’d forgotten about that one.

I too saw Bea Arthur’s one woman show. Her stories were hilarious. She should have been doing one woman shows for decades.

I read something really insightful about SATC once. The writer said that she always envied them for the vast amount of free time they had. Carrie writes one column a week and that affords her her lifestyle. The chaste one spends her time husband hunting and interning, I think, with a painter at some point. Miranda has…

I remember seeing one of the Muppets movies as an adult and enjoying it immensely (I think Muppets Take Manhattan.) I don’t remember any adult themes but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few double entendres. And it wasn’t like The Muppets were entirely chaste. Miss Piggy was scheming to get her…hooves? Do pigs…

I think that’s a Toy. I had a Cavalier and he was much bigger than that but then I spoiled him and overfed him.

I hope your mother managed to eat at the restaurant at the Park Plaza. I was invited to lunch there in ‘04, maybe even earlier. I don’t think they had updated the menu since the 1950s. I had the “Oriental Salad” (no kidding, that’s what it was called) which was this strange mélange of shredded lettuce and raisins and…

I had other friends who had a pair of Jack Russell terriers. They had this really huge, compfortable couch and if you sat on it one of them (the male) would climb along the arm and then up to the top of the back and get behind you and start barking as loudly as possible. In your ear. I thought it was endearing. Other…

How is it going with the Jack? I have friends who have had and now have Jack Russell terriers and apparently they’re a little needy, let’s say. My previous dog and I used to walk in our previous neighborhood and we used to run into a guy who had a Jack pair. They used to jump in the air from a standing position,…

So adorable. What kind of dog?

Oh no! I am #teamdog but my mother and sister had cats, lots of cats, to the point where they were bordering on cat ladies, and I want to move in with these people. I would change out the litter boxes and walk the dogs.

The two biggest banks in Scotland (I forget their names, one must have been RBS) announced before the vote for independence that they would leave Edinburgh and hightail it off to London if it won. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England announced that they would have to create their own…

About the delegate count, that is what Hillary was counting on in 2008, all the super delegates. Well, guess what, all the superannuated Democratic hacks who have been hanging around far past their sell-by date weren’t enough to subvert the will of the people.

Pre-9/11 my office building would periodically ask that employees show work IDs to get past the lobby. This would last for a week or two and then everyone would ignore it. It was a farce, you never needed your work ID for anything, the floors were open and there was no cafeteria or anything. Out of carelessness I used…

I have posted this little anecdote before. I actually drove into Canada from rural Vermont along rural roads and didn’t show any ID, because I got lost and the trees didn’t seem to care. Only when I got to a gas station was I told that I was “abroad” and I turned around and snuck back into America. Like Ted Cruz.

Shortly after 9/11 (“The Day That Changed Everything Forever”) I was at a small regional airport far, far away from either coast and we were standing around waiting to board our little puddle jumper. All of us were forced to go behind a screen and be given the once-over by the newly-empowered Blart-like rent-a-cops.…

It might be difficult in Boston. There was a big fire at the City Hall records office at some point, maybe 1950s or 1960s, and we never had any proof that my grandmother was actually born in Boston. But when we needed the proof (late 1970s) everyone remembered this event and were like “yes, of course, why would you…

It might have. My grandmother’s bible, which was her parents’, had everyone’s names written in, mine included, and those of my nieces and nephews. I can’t remember which of my siblings has it but I should ask if they’re keeping up this tradition.

Of course I will vote for Hillary over any of the Republicans in the clown car but your argument has a couple of flaws.

Septuagenarian Jewish Socialists are not known for their fashion sense. Believe me.