I’ve only heard of REI but have never visited one. What are they selling memberships to? Do you have to be a member to go there? Or maybe volunteer x hours a month? Thanks, I’ll shop online, and not at REI.

After I graduated from college I moved to Boston for a couple of years, then fled as soon as I could. That is what the bars looked like. #bostonstrong #neveragain

JFK was a little late to the cause but marginally sympathetic. No one would blink an eye if LBJ were cast as a black man, someone who did more for civil rights in two years than had been done in two centuries. Cast Eisenhower as a black man, or Reagan, and watch the freak flags fly.

But amateur productions are almost always better though, in a strange way. They bring a charm and a simplicity to a work sometimes, as opposed to some suburban or resort town “playhouse” who helicoptered in a half-dead celebrity who no one under 40 remembers. I would rather see a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs than…

Maybe they could cast Rachel Dolezal as Coretta Scott King. Or better yet, as Jesse Jackson (who was at the Lorraine Motel and held a dying MLK in his arms.) Since she’s not black, her not being male shouldn’t really hold her back from the casting process.

Good luck in your search. From what I could tell it was probably made within the last ten years, no earlier, because it looks like how 21st-century America thinks people in the 1850s looked like (which would be different if it were made in the 1970s, for example, or the 1960s.) A year ago it wasn’t its first run…

I periodically try to find a mention of it and I always come up blank. The closest I can come is to think that it was something like that execrable “Wild Wild West” movie, or “American Horror Story,” or like when Abraham Lincoln is a vampire killer, historical fantasy. Damn my puppy and his bladder needs.

I have mentioned this before. About a year ago I was flipping around and came across a scene from some movie where there was a white guy on a train with a lot of anxious looking black folk on a train and the windows were dark. They were wearing period clothes and I thought, “No, they can’t..” and the white guy said…

“It depends on the conversion. If done properly, the children will be Jewish.”

Fear not, my new Internet friend! I have no lactose issues of any kind. I sometimes revert to my college sophomore self and pour a big glass of that pinot and slice or smear cheese on crackers or bread and that’s dinner for me!

You’ll wish you were one of my coworkers. Being childless, I am a soft touch for any and all child-related fundraising, so I end up ordering a few boxes from each of the parent coworkers who ask me. As the deliveries arrive at my desk off to the kitchen they go. They’re gone in minutes. Since I open the boxes and put…

I remember that article about the eggs drying up (and I am a gay man) and I think it was the beginning of the end of Time Magazine.

Why would someone with an anti-Semitic sign hang out around NYU of all places? Does he camp out outside the Stern School of Business? I’m sure that’s a hotbed of anti-Semitic sentiment. It’s too bad that on his march up to 30 Rock he didn’t drift east over to Bellevue and do a voluntary commitment.

I think that, faced with a likely fairly hostile NYC studio audience that won’t laugh at his “ha ha I’m a racist” schtick,

Rookie move. Get that 11,000 square foot place down in Florida and define yourself as a resident of the state. No income tax and they don’t take domiciles (or cars I don’t think) when, inevitably, you declare bankruptcy.

But Trump isn’t really a 21st century conservative. He’s advocated raising taxes (by a lot) on wealthy people like himself. I find his immigrant-bashing stuff repulsive but I bet organized labor would like to see day laborers removed from Home Depot parking lots. His plan to fix the VA is to expand Medicare and…

I am an outlier like you but am coming from the opposite direction. I am gay but can’t eat Girl Scout cookies! I don’t like the taste of any of them except for the Thin Mints, and just two or three provokes headaches. I don’t know why, I have no allergies that I know of and I eat any- and everything. I haven’t turned…

I just had to google this. Trudeau’s Cabinet is going to have 30 members. And presumably each will have deputies and a staff and sublayers and maybe provincial/regional representation. This is in a nation of 35 million. If I were Canadian I’d move to Ottawa, that must be where the jobs are.

Separate vacations themselves are also wonderful things. Every year I spend a week with college cronies and another week with relatives brought in from far and wide. My husband would rather chew off his right hand than be part of either of these gabfests/trips down memory lane and I don’t blame him.

Has Sean Connery EVER turned down a film role?