I think Jo Nesbø and his Norwegian publisher knew what they were doing when they unleashed upon the world his detective named Harry Hole. I will forever be looking up how to pronounce it.

Dead rodents found this year: 3
Dates: 0
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Wound up with more carrots than I needed. Rather than make something “healthy,” I chose cakes. Cornmeal carrot cake and one-bowl carrot cake. Both delicious.

Protester: America was our ally for so long. We relied on America so much. Now it's an embarrassment.

Brokeback Mountain at 20: Does it hold up? Brokeback Mountain was the movie that nobody thought could get made — not the writer, not the director, not even the head of the movie studio trying to make ...

Brokeback Mountain turns twenty this year -- so how does it hold up? My new video is now live:

Fire Island is great.

Hoppy Easter!

Today in awkward real book reviews: “Reading this book will make you happier than a dog with two peters.” (It’s about college football)

The Long Call on BritBox. 4 episodes. DI must investigate a murder in the religious community he was forced to leave behind. Juliet Stevenson as his mom.

Watching a House Hunters with 2 ex-zookeepers looking for a place to convert into a B&B and I can’t decide if this is a sitcom or a women’s fiction novel.

I just left messages for Sen. Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand. Good news for shy callers: it went right to voicemail.

Schumer: (202) 224-6542
Gillibrand: (202) 224-4451

If Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi show up in a UFO, I’m getting in.