Now I need to find out what Cracker Barrel added. Thanks a lot, internet stranger!

Second that. My wife refers to Canter’s as the “House of Salt”; but you have to love the ambience (special note: best black and white cookies I’ve had in LA are at the bakery counter at Canter’s). Langer’s is truly amazing. But don’t miss the pastrami at Oinkster, either! And Wexler’s Deli deserves a try too.

I blame the ancient Greeks who set impossible standards for older men! I’ll never look anything like Zeus.

I have a vague childhood memory, maybe from Germany in the 1960s, that when people moved into an area they were expected to visit the local police precinct and introduce themselves. I don’t remember if this was a requirement or a suggestion. It may have been an overheard grown-up conversation.

So, the ultimate upshot is the deputies didn’t intervene because dispatch told them it was a “misunderstanding”? So when they arrived on the scene... what happened? They told everyone to settle down? I feel the story is incomplete.

I really wanted to trade in my 2018 Prius Prime Plus for a 2021 Rav4 Prime, but they were charging $10k markup! My PP+ could have fetched $25k, and there is (was?) the $7.5k tax credit, but it just didn’t end up paying. So I’m still driving the trusty PP+.

I was teetering on the edge of trading in my 2018 PP+ for a Rav4 Prime, but the $10k markup talked me out of it. Also, you know, my Prime is doing just fine. It has a Comma2 for lanekeeping and I rarely have to fill the tank. Like once every 6 months.

Besides everything else here, I think the Biblical definition of the family unit involves several wives. Don’t think that’s even legal.

Per Michael Pollan:

Gas station expired miniature fruit pies.

I have an Ericophone this might be cute for!

I saw Brewster McCloud in 1970 (I was 14). The only thing not age-appropriate is a scene of a girl, hidden under a blanket (but still...), masturbating to Brewster’s doing endless pull-ups. I was disturbed by that for weeks.

We live in Los Angeles, and my wife has an annual teaching gig in her home state, Iowa. She marvels at the house you could buy there for, like $60k. Of course, she reflects, then you’d be living in Iowa.

Similar phenomenon: people take credit for their successes, and describe their failures in the passive voice.

My grandfather is buried in Hollywood Forever, and I hope when you’re enjoying a movie there, you’re not pissing on a grave. You know, the way a dog would.

Well, yes, but. It’s hard, but one must always encourage. Never say, great, but why didn’t you... whatever. Right after Trump was elected, I went to my dentist and found her hygienist hadn’t voted -- Young woman with a child. You know, busy. The dentist, an Iranian refugee as a child, is a fanatic about voting. I’m…

My dad did not have a car in the United States — we lived in Manhattan — but he worked for three months a year in Germany as a photographer. There he had a 1959 Mercedes sedan. He finally gave it up in 1986 or so, and I was shocked and saddened that he didn’t offer it to me... though I did not have a license at the…

I bought Cuphead because I admire the art. I’m not a gamer, though (Doom II was kind of it for me), and I found it IMPOSSIBLE to play. One day I’ll try again...

I read a while back that Hooters has a children’s menu.

White Manhattan — white whiskey, white vermouth, orange bitters and a cherry. Fantastic.