He gave me no books because, as he used to say, and this is a very old maxim, “Knowledge Is Power.” What if I were to learn the management secrets he was consuming at such an astonishing clip?

“Productize” is going into my Great Dictionary of Corporate Buzzword Anthimeria and Other Amusing Sayings. Hopefully it will die a quick and relatively painless death.

And of course the creepy Property Brothers are involved.

I had never heard of The Switch so I googled and apparently it was a story by Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides; Middlesex). I doubt he wrote the script but Eugenides is a pretty good writer to work from.

Can I sign on to this pact?

We get up really early anyway, our dogs have trained us well, so a little earlier isn’t bad. We save tons of time getting to the NYC airports, security is a breeze because there aren’t 30,000 people in line, and the flights actually take off more or less when scheduled.

We don’t and I’ll tell you why/pro-tip for those on the East Coast:

God Michael Lembeck was hot (he’s the middle guy in the bottom photo.) Googled. He’s still alive, he’s 71. Tempus fugit.

I watched Michael Moore’s “Where to Invade Next” within the last year and I was thinking about Barron.

A friend of mine got veneers, he was in an accident and this wasn’t out of vanity. Apparently the different shades of white have names, and the whitest of the white, the most unnatural looking white, is known as the “Hollywood white.”

“His” cookbook, you mean. Celebrity cookbooks are often ghost-written. Although it’s pretty unusual for a celebrity who can’t cook to become a celebrity for culinary reasons (c.f. Sandra Lee, she of the “Kwanzaa cake” of blessed memory.) It’s more like, “When I’ve had a long day I make this quick ‘n easy recipe my…

Lake Apopka, which is an excellent name for a Florida lake, is just to the west, but I don’t know what the collegiate demand for Seadoos would be. But Lake Apopka is pretty big.

To close this particular circle, right around the time “Beaches” came out I abruptly left a job and didn’t have another one lined up. My friends and coworkers thought I was crazy but some admired my courage. I would explain, “[The really intolerable boss] was the Wind Beneath My Wings.”

I was thinking that with enough USC “school spirit” exhibited by her parents and her (surely there’s a parking garage that could use a little sprucing up; maybe the cafeteria infrastructure is starting to look a little aged and is falling behind the offerings at UCLA, which is a scandal itself, because UCLA is public,…

Who’s to say they would flunk out? Universities are in constant need of improved sports facilities and endowed scholarships for scholar-athletes and it’s only through the generosity of involved parents in the academic community that these can be funded. If this whole scandal hadn’t broken wide open I’d be willing to…

The royal couple will be on tour from 23 September - 3 October.

You do not fuck with the woman who gave the world the term “the zipless fuck.”

Eric’s on the payroll. All Tiffany is getting, presumably, is Georgetown Law tuition and a living allowance. But if she snags that cute billionaire she can uncontroversially change her last name and be rid of the connection once and for all. I think he cares less about Tiffany than Eric, but here Tiffany is the clear…

And it’s perfect that a toilet can be seen in the lower left. A nice, almost Diane Arbus-ian touch.

That definitely sounds like something The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane would have come up with. He is a treasure.