They're worth it for expats like me, but you probably have a wealth of small places right nearby — places that aren't big enough to have an online store and interstate shipping — that use any of the remaining good fish smokehouses, or even smoke their own. So if I were you, I'd put it on my list for the next time I'm…

I have a funny story about trying Chinese food outside of a large coastal metropolitan area. It involved non-Chinese waitstaff (and probably cooks), and ketchup-based sauces. Ouch. As for bagels (or "baggels" if you're Britta — she *lived* in New York!), I console myself a couple of times a year with shipments from…

Over the years I've been sorry I moved away sometimes, relieved other times. On balance, it was the right thing to do, but…you really get spoiled living in NYC. Any cuisine, at any time of the day or night, delivered to your door. Does. Not. Happen. in the suburbs. :-( No fresh, real, NYC-water bagels available hot…

Yeah, and then I went and moved out of New York almost thirty years ago, so it's even less convenient now.

Sorry, just good naturedly giving you a hard time (because obviously it's a 19th century work, so it wasn't *first* staged at the park). And yeah, I figured you meant the Papp version, the one that preceded its run on Broadway. I grew up in the NY area, went to shows, all sorts of things on my own with friends as a…

*First* staged? I think you mean when the 1980s Broadway version was first shown (before opening on B'way) in Central Park. Because Pirates was *first* staged in 1879, and in Britain! But yeah, I'm a bit jealous of you — my folks thought I was too young to go and wait all day at the park (which was admittedly pretty…

You mean "…and drove to Pennsylvania without telling *Vic* where she was going," not Max.

Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen!

Gilbert & Sullivan fan?

Very interesting! Thanks!

That was either suspicious, or badly written. Don't guards know exactly why each prisoner on their cell block is incarcerated? And I agree with Gunther: guys like Noah don't usually get sent to straight-up ordinary dirtbag prisons. Did we ever get a reason why he wasn't sent to a white collar prison? It's not like he…

Every time he screamed "BLOOOOOCK ISLAAAAAND" on the ferry, I cringed in embarrassment for him.

I have a guilty, secret love for "Airheads." Please don't tell anyone!

I may have to finally stop watching if Allison is pregnant after sleeping with both Cole and Noah over the course of just two days. Ugh.

Abi Maria's mother had some kind of tendon transplant in her foot. Which looked ridiculous as something to whine about when contrasted with Woo's mother's situation.

Being glad that a failed character, part of a failed plot, is off the show doesn't make someone a bloodthirsty psychopath. I can separate my feelings about the drama from my empathy for an actor, or for another human being who may or may not be a fictional representation of an actual person from history.

I bet those are contacts or some variety of sfx.

"Grammar" has seemingly become shorthand for any or all of grammar, usage and orthography. Blame Twitter!

38 days. :-(

Yep, my thought as well. Maybe HBO can take some of their premium cable money and make a faithful WWZ adaptation as a limited series. I'd watch the shit outta that.