Film fest tip: Most A-listers have extensive training, that they are rarely asked about. They are proud of this and like all professionals long to engage in shop talk. Which is why you can strike up a conversation with any star by saying “so when were you broken on the wheel of Clowning?”

They’re saying what they intuit they must say in polite company, that it’s blarney, tough talk. The reality is worse than them not caring. They think it’s good for business if half the country is at a minimum terrified all the time.

Mansplaining Dad is an accent now. Bill Barr pioneered it and these minions perfected it, the slightly irritated rise in tone and volume midway through the sentence. Expecting him to take away my devices so I can better study the Thomas Sowell hardbacks he’s throwing at me.

Looked like a lovely wedding in The NY Times Vows today, but I need a follow up on this cake, from concept to realization.

Anticipate seeing you in the SoHo Fjällräven, subtly gesturing that you don’t want any of this.

Is there any inquiry by a stranger more fraught than “you know who you look like, right?”

We aren’t worthy. She should wear it at a private reception for a few select Kennedy Honorees, Nobel laureates and José Andrés.

Some might find it uncomfortable, but I cherish those two weeks after I give notice, just too busy packing my personal stapler to go to the Henderson account meeting.

“I’m a supertaster!” “Is it just for cilantro?” “Yeah.”

You have a point though! So many going down the aisle clutching straw and medicinal herbs these days.