No, but the entitled name is Grantham (the family name is Crawley), and there was a suitor named Gillingham, and the final season is underway in Britain so I wouldn’t be surprised if a Pinkham showed up.

So your full name is Colin Pinkham? How was Downton Abbey? Since you evaded Lady Mary’s homicidal charms and returned in one piece I’m sure you have tales to tell.

During Lent you give up one thing but otherwise go about your daily routine. Lots of people I know use it to try to give up smoking or drinking alcohol or abstain from chocolate or desserts, which is kind of like a health regimen. There used to be a proscription against meat but that was reformed under Vatican 2 and a…

Can you work in the term “30,000”? She basically laid off the equivalent of every man, woman, and child in the town that I grew up in. Thirty thousand people. And it still sent HP into the toilet and the stock plummeting through the basement. I think she’s actually a bigger business failure than Trump. But go ahead.…

Did anyone translate this? I’m not a native born speaker of Spanish but I’m fairly fluent. It says:

There are residences in the Vatican, more than you would think. I think they are now all reserved for Vatican-related personnel and seminarians and novitiates and visiting folks, clergy and nuns and lay people alike. During World War II several embassies from western countries left Rome proper and squeezed in with…

Too lazy and kinja’d out to find this intel, but as a 20-year-old female she was in high admin position in the Nazi death camp machinery? I guess by 1944 German males were kind of hard to find, what with the Total War and all, but still. I’ll have to read the source article. I wonder if it says where she went after…

I’m really late to this, no doubt dozens of people have pointed this out, but what do people think she was telegraphing out and transcribing when messages came in?

Don’t sell yourself short!

They’re already freaking out in New York. He’s going to be transiting in the Popemobile through Central Park, part (or all?) of which will be closed off and only ticket holders let in, and everyone knows he loves to hop out for meet and greets. A reporter asked a security spokesman if it was true that Francis might…

I read Jezebel obsessively and comment two or three times a day, sometimes more. I try to be funny and offer encouragement and provide useful tips and information, I’m almost never negative, to no avail. I almost never post on the Gawker main page but guess what? I’m followed there, and I’m not sure why. Kinja is…

Off topic slightly, where would high speed rail in WI go? Is there a proposal to link Milwaukee to Chicago and then maybe a spur to Madison? This is a sincere question, I love train travel and hate driving. I’ve taken buses in LA so I am hardcore.

Loved “The Company Cookbook.” Somewhere stashed away I have a Junior League cookbook that was produced as a fundraising tool. Beautifully done, recipes from all over the country and from the entire span of the 20th century (it came out in 2000) and it is hilarious. Sometime around 1980 these ladies must have joined…

She’s the 21st century Woody Allen. Black people don’t exist, especially not in New York.

I love the strap of whatever is hanging on her left hip. It’s a little extra touch of chic.

If Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian got really high one night and for whatever reason decided to design fabric this is what would have resulted. Of course the next morning they would have burned it.

A fun thing to do is find out which famous people share your birthday and realize you have absolutely nothing in common with any of them. I share a birthday with a famous evangelical. a comedian, and a minor member of the British royal family. If you put the four of us in a room I think conversation would be a little…

In New England you can’t go anywhere without seeing a Dunkin Donuts cup. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one perched on a casket or being carried by one of the Celtics on the court.

Alan Cumming was very Chaplin-esque. What was with the umbrella? Isn’t it like 100 degrees in LA and hasn’t rained in three years or something? Is he mocking LA? A sly reference to his Scottish roots?

Whoever chooses the music that concluded each episode deserved an Emmy or two. I’m (just) old enough to remember that Coke commercial and when it came on I literally gasped. Same with the episode where Sally Draper acts out and hacks her hair off and the concluding song is “I Enjoy Being a Girl” (first line: “When I…