I can’t love the Obamas more but have you taken a gander at the new First Couple of Canada?

Oh, so those are like our $2 bills or $1 coins. They exist but you never see them. The last time I was in Britain I got some 2 pound (I don’t know how to make the pound sign on my American keyboard) coins, I guess I should have held onto them.

I want to live in the Dakota. Not with an elderly crazy person like Yoko but maybe somewhere on a different elvator bank.

This is absolutely true. In ye olden days when you paid for subway tokens or put coins into fare boxes on buses pennies were legally forbidden. Why we haven’t abolished the penny mystifies me. In Britain they have a 2-pound coin, which is worth about $3. It’s like we’re living in Italy before the introduction of the…

This is not an attack but you’re Canadian, aren’t you? You said North America, which is something only a Canadian would say. When we Americans express a viewpoint we do it as Americans; Canadians do it as “North Americans.” [I am of Canadian descent and may be returning to the ancestral homeland sooner rather than…

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Is she dancing in that photo? The others seem a little underdressed. Was she visiting a logging camp in the Northwest Territories or something? I assume this photo was taken in that brief period after WWII was over and before her father died. Look at that waist. Eighteen inches would be my estimate. I hope she’s not…

Do a GIS for “Royal Wedding” or “Ascot”. British women with money to burn put all kinds of crazy things on their heads, the crazier the better. That’s a Philip Treacy, who is a favorite among these women. He’s done worse.

You can take pride in Prince Edward.

Is there one where POTUS sings “All Night Long”? I know that when he won in 2008 there was dancing in the streets with everyone you’d meet in my neighborhood.

I for one was grateful for the Romney selfie. It’s like whenever I see a photo of Sarah Palin, it restores my faith in humanity that neither of them actually were elected to Federal office, and now hold no office at all.

My favorite industry acronym is POS, which means “Point of Sale,” but also most often means “Piece of Shit.”

Whenever I read a conservative commentator (and I do, just to keep up) who says, “The Republican bench is wide and deep” I always think of those sad, deserted bus stop benches in those cities that don’t really have public transportation (the bus comes like every four hours three days a week) that are plastered with…

I see you’ve visited the Love Boat’s Fiesta Deck.

So do I! Not Hartford, though, but I love Providence. A friend of mine from college went through a bank training program after graduation, one of the big Boston banks, maybe Bank of Boston or BayBank (this is how long ago this was) and at the end of his training he was sent off to be a bank executive…in New Bedford.…

Thank you for the gift of Wondermark!

What makes this an especially haunting tale is that of course the house is located in Massachusetts if they have to station a cop inside because God forbid someone pours themselves a vodka and tonic (in a place where they’ll be staying overnight, no less.). The entire Fall River City Council probably had to be paid…

And tangential to that was the fact that so many fathers. brothers, husbands and sons died during the Civil War and there was this great national outpouring of a desire to somehow communicate with them, even after their deaths. This is an age when spiritualism was always kind of out there, and when many children never…

Ah, Hartford. Far, far scarier than the Lizzie Borden B&B is the Hartford bus station. I got stranded there for a couple of hours, long story, and during my brief visit I was basically mugged, was hit on by not one but two hookers with meth sores/herpes who were very open about what they were doing and no one cared,…

And Jim. And if Babs is so chummy with the Travoltas who knows who else might be touring the mall when the big one hits. Is the frozen yogurt machine the only food source down there I wonder? Does the Sweet Shop really have sweets or is it stocked with things like moth balls a food stylist has painted to resemble bon…