“Social climbing” was ascribed to Prince Philip, who is 98, and is royal in his own right. Problem was one of his titles was “of Greece,” and Greece abolished the monarchy, so he was considered, you know, Greek, and not really royal anymore. His siblings’ marriages into the Nazi-supporting German nobility didn’t help. …

The Scary Island 2-parter was riveting television. The 1969 moon landing pales by comparison. Since it’s turtle time for me:

Now I’ve done the math and I’ve been coupled off for 98.3% of Jonah Hill’s life. This would make a fun online quiz. “Are you in a relationship? Take this test to see how long you’ve been together compared to how long Jonah Hill has been alive. The results may surprise you!”

Apparently guns, like cars, change over time. The gun was issued in 1958 and never used, thankfully, and my MIL died in 2014. So my husband might as well have pulled up in front of an auto museum with a 1958 never-driven Cadillac on a flatbed and said, “Here you go!”

Do I get points for being coupled off for about as long as Jonah Hill has been alive? Sadly, no uteruses in this folie à deux, so no kids. Plenty of dogs though!

I have an interesting gun story that I think I bored you all with before.

Speaking of the nuke codes, does the PM have to go to the Palace or wherever the queen happens to be and formally ask her permission to use them? I suppose not, I doubt Churchill went to her father and discussed every nuance of the British response and ultimate victory during World War II. But still, nuclear…

I’m a gay man not many years older than him and I’ve never heard any of my straight contemporaries use the term “hot mess.”

No, and to this day I’ve never read Alice in Wonderland nor any of its reimaginings or seen any visual treatments of it, including the Disney. I’ve read around Alice in Wonderland, how strange Lewis Carroll was and who the real Alice was, but at the time it was just a funny song. We were much bigger fans of “Somebody…

So how do you drink it, though? By itself at room temperature? Over ice? I think if I ever had a bottle of this I might add dark rum. Although I feel even that would be too sticky/cloying.

One of my older siblings had that album and when we were young kids, when my mother doled out the daily vitamins, my sister and I used to intone, “One pill makes you bigger/And one pill makes you small.” Of course neither my sister, nor I, nor my mother could understand any of this.

I have very few regrets in life but here’s one:

You don’t always need to fly to see the world.

I would have guessed pharmaceutical ad for a Viagra-like product.

Karamo exudes empathy from every pore and is the most Zen person to ever appear onscreen.

I make a lot of punches (I make a lot of everything) and frozen fruit is a party punch must. God forbid you should dilute the punch by melting ice cubes. I usually throw a lot of fruit into a tupperware container (uncovered) the night before and freeze. Then, the day of, I make the punch, the liquid ingredients of…

The first time I saw Chateau Diana Wine Product in a grocery store I picked up a bottle. I noticed that it was Wine Product, but I thought that meant it might be adulterated somehow, like it was like a wine spritzer or maybe even flavored somehow, like a sangria without the fruit.

So is this it, the field is now down to a manageable ten and there will be one debate from here on out? I’m surprised Marianne Williamson didn’t squeak through. She has so many admirers, you’d think enough of them would throw some (more) money her way and tell pollsters they’d vote for her for President.

Have you ever heard of Chateau Diana Wine Product? Probably not, because in my experience you can buy decent wine in all kinds of places in LA. Here in Gotham there are all kinds of regulations about where alcoholic beverages can be sold. For example, wine can only be sold in wine or liquor stores, and in liquor…