I will never forget the 10-foot Lengthapipe. Or the musical saw or the spoons.

Columbia College has been co-ed since the 80s. And the band was always co-ed, with participants from all the schools in the university.

When I went to Columbia (the 70s) I didn’t know anyone who gave much of a rat’s ass about the football games. Everyone went to see the band. And actual “marching” bands have a vaguely repulsive military flavor. Personal opinion.

Well, if we’re competing over who knew what when, my mother was in convent school in 1930 (the Ursuline school in Quebec; oldest convent school in North America I believe, from the 17th cent) and she told me about priests molesting children all the time... as well as the much less objectionable, but still hypocritical,…

Saying “hone in on” when you mean “home in on.” To hone is to sharpen; literally, a razor, metaphorically, a skill or argument. Homing pigeons home in on their ... well, their home. Metaphorically, you can home in an any target.

Isn’t this fight over since the whole Slants thing?

Am I right that if I want to get rid of iCloud without terrifying, confusing messages, I have to move files off my Macbook, turn off iCloud, accept its threatening message, then move things back? On one message board, they say to move files out of Documents and Desktop... But that means off the computer, right? Or can…

I remember reading about the famous Harvard Club restaurant where you could ask for anything you wanted and they’d make it for you... and, I suppose, come up with a price somehow. Maybe go there!

Russians? (Or their Croatian or Montenegran subcontractors) Wouldn’t be surprised.

Ving Rhames played Kojak??? I have to find that. Sounds amazing.

I won’t say where this ranks in importance in this whole kerfuffle, but Keurig coffee makers are the worst. Nobody should drink what they produce, even if they use their own coffee in the reusable K-cups.

If anyone doesn’t need people to be “fair” to her, it’s G(oo)P. But, honestly, the Bucky Barnes character, its writing and its performance, are pretty flat and dull. I honestly wouldn’t recognize this guy. And movies have 100s of people running around a set at all times. Did they have a scene together?

So THAT’s how you say that. Huh. [repeating it softly to myself...]

When I was about 10, in 1966 or so, I would mix G&Ts for my dad when he got home from the photography studio. I enjoyed drinking tonic water rather than a cola or 7-up. When I was an adult and made a G&T for myself, it tasted poisonously sweet — tonic water sold to Americans was made much sweeter, at least in the 80s, …

If a manager needs employees to work more than their regular hours, that manager has failed at their job. They should be fired or demoted, and another manager found who can do the job required with the resources available. If that is impossible, the manager’s manager needs to be fired/demoted... etc., all the way up…

Since nobody mentioned this, I thought I would:

Warren in the primary. Any dem in the general. I don’t know if lots of great policy ideas is attractive to voters, but I like it. For all I know, it just increases her attack surface. My main concern is who is best at humiliating the playground bully; the bully has a huge advantage because he doesn’t care about ideas…

It’s odd to frame his response as not “being better” at giving the answer you’d prefer. It could just be that he disagrees with you. I think he sincerely believes that economic equality is the panacea for racial ills, and that once he has accomplished that (via “political revolution”), racial violence etc. will just…

I’m told by family that Dunkin’ Donuts has good coffee. Never been, don’t know, but it’s not on your list. Is it not “fast food”? (This conversation comes up when I make coffee, which do fussily, with beans from a microroaster. I grind them for each pot I make, sometimes with a little hand-grinder. My sister mocks me,…

I feel the same way. She’s great. I get how, among the various things that get voters excited (tribe, combativeness, etc.), policy might not be at the top -- the tl;dr effect, I guess. You should listen to Michael Lewis’s new podcast, Against the Rules. He talks about her and the CFPB.