After a number of tries (I’m supposed to eat more salmon, says my doctor), I finally got it right this week. The folks here saying go with oven baking over stovetop have it right, and I highly recommend this Martha Stewart recipe for mustard glazed salmon, which despite however much you might recoil at the name is…

That’s what I’m talking about!

You get me. Simply the best.

Ok now tell me the story of “What Not to Wear” - because I really miss that show!

I’m surprised it was set up so that she’d get Champagne all over herself. If I remember rightly from videos of various royals christening ships, there’s usually some sort of device that keeps the christener (as it were) at a decent remove from flying bits of broken glass and spumes of angry bubbly.

I’ve been really surprised, as I make major life changes following open-heart surgery, how chill my docs are about salt. They’re all about avoiding carbs and pretty much advocate going paleo, but my senior doctor, at our last appointment, told me I should probably up my sodium intake (to something still below the…

At this point, nothing would surprise me. I’m half waiting for Rhett, the story of how a poor boy from Charleston turned into a devil-may-care, Tara-conquering roué, or Baby Bennett Sisters, about four little girls who get all moony over the cute four year-old who’s just moved into the pre-school next door.

Like Narnia for shut-ins.

Garson/Olivier 4 Lyfe.

Ugh - I’m just past my first summer of going to the pool after open heart. I wore tape over the scar and a swimming shirt over that, but because I’m young(ish) everybody wanted to know why I’m moving/swimming like such an oldster, not doing laps, etc. The pain tourists (brilliant phrase!) really can be relentless,…

The entire discussion of historic biscuits, as quoted above, should only be read aloud in John Cleese’s voice, or perhaps the late Graham Chapman’s. It’s pure Monty Python.

The only thing “Becomers” reminds me of is one of the many shifting names of the Heaven’s Gate cult, which for a while was called “Total Overcomers” or something like that...

Totally off-topic, but I was astonished to learn not all that long ago that Mattel is putting out a sexy Wizard of Oz Barbie line. Here’s “Fantasy Glamour Wicked Witch,” for example:

I can’t tell you how pleased I am that, were I to want to discuss the Boy Wonder’s assets with my husband, I would first have to explain to him who Justin Bieber is/was. The only thing that could make me happier in that regard would be if I, in addition, had also never heard of him.

It was great to see that midget and Cruise all crazy and beyond crazy and then still crazier.

It’s the Anti-vaxxers own fault for not going to Dr. Regnerus. Or Dr. Spaceman.

A town for the most disgusting people within a ten-state radius? Not a wholly terrible idea - and, as is so often the case, one that John Waters had decades ago...

Hmmm... you’ve got me thinking that maybe this is Carly Fiorina’s strategy to make sure she at least rates being a main character in the next HBO movie version of an election...? ;-)

Somebody needs to introduce these two visionaries to the Peeple gals. That would be a foursome for the ages; maybe it could be arranged for them to “meet cute” at the Bratayley funeral? Synergy!

I’m on a fairly restricted (medically necessary, unfortunately) diet, and one of the massive changes (of many) I’ve had to get used to is how tiny a fully, healthy meal can be. If you’re in the U.S., We’re used to some seriously skewed portion sizes.