Extra points for sly subtlety.

Or to be very Welsh, Dafydd. But Harry’s father is already the Prince of Wales and presumably his brother William will be too one day so that might be a little too much Welsh.

I’m a huge fan of Evelyn Waugh and I never knew that. I was going to chime in and say Evelyn Waugh named his oldest son Auberon, and one of Auberon Waugh’s closest friends was Peregrine Worsthorne.

Robert Caro is having this problem with his multi-volume bio of LBJ. Caro is 83. The project was originally conceived to be three books but he’s finding and including so much research that he just released Volume Four, which only takes us up to 1964, and Johnson was president until Inauguration Day, 1969. Somewhat…

I think it’s kind of gratuitously cruel that they had the character “head back east” when in real life Loughlin is making special appareances in Boston, and you don’t get much farther east than that in this country.

And is Angelyne holding one of those maps of the Hollywood stars’ homes? That would take the look from great to genius.

She may enjoy performing. Aretha Franklin did. If I could get 10,000 people in a venue to jump up and scream and cheer me on I think I’d do it three times a day 365 days a year.

Airport security is a total crap shoot. Worldwide, not just in the US. I live in New York so I fly out of Kennedy, La Guardia, and Newark. You know, the city that was the principal target on 9/11? Never really a problem. I’ve also flown out of Dulles and Reagan National Airport in DC, the other big target, and again,…

That flying commercial aspect is my question as well. She must have more money than God at this point and even if she doesn’t have her own plane she could charter one. No TSA hassles if you do, and they also tend to leave from more convenient smaller regional airports; there are hundreds of them that most Americans…

Are your friends fairly young and new mothers? Because my experience has been the exact opposite. I’m a childless gay man who loves children and am always eager to hang out with them and talk to their parents about them (not in a creepy way, I assure you) and I get swatted down. “Please, Max, the last thing I want to…

William Blake was right. England really is (or can be) a “green and pleasant land.” That’s from his poem “Jerusalem” but I’m sure you know this.

You don’t live in Overland Park, KS, do you?

I know. I was as shocked as you were. And according to wikipedia she was maybe 27 but probably 26 when they got married. I always thought she was 19 or something. 

I am kind of delighted that the McCain family fortune derives from a company Meghan’s maternal grandfather founded that was the sole wholesaler of Budweiser products in the Phoneix area. I’m surprised that didn’t make it into Infinite Jest; that is a very David Foster Wallace-ish character bio and there is a whole…

Pretty much the same exact thing happened to us! We fell in love with a black lab mix puppy at a shelter and the shelter workers estimated that he’d grow to be about 50 lbs. A couple of days later we took him to our vet practice to get the real scoop and among other things asked how big he would get. “Oh, about 80…

In my family I’m one of the youngest siblings and used to do a fair amount of overnight baby sitting. One of my siblings had a long-hair dog who liked to worm his way under my head and serve as my pillow. Every couple of hours I would be awoken by a fart smell that I assume will be greeting me when I’m at the gates of…

My uncle was a very strait-laced family man, seven kids. He once told me that if you gamble and chase women (I’m a guy) you’ll be bankrupt in LV by the time the weekend is over.

No, unfortunately, but he lived a good long life. He loved Las Vegas (well, he would, he helped build it) and knew everyone.

I bet your great aunt knows a branch of my family. One of my uncles pulled up stakes and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1950s when he was in his early 20s. The way he described it sounds like it was kind of a small town then (for the permanent residents) and they all seemed to know each other. My uncle went into real…

The women in my family were strong in a cantankerous, my way or the highway way. And they were in many, many other ways. I just added the preceding sentence as an edit so as not to disparage the remarkable lives that they lived. I hope the edit takes.