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It’s been a long time since I’ve attended a performance by a comedian.

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In honor of seeing Mr. Jerry Seinfeld perform tonight at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, this Friday I’ll list five (or more) favorite Seinfeld show episodes. Watch for my upcoming blog on the Seinfeld episodes that couldn’t be made today.

Giddy-up!

The Puffy Shirt (Season 5, Episode 2) – Kramer’s low-talking date d...

It’s that time again! A dozen new words or phrases sneaking into our vernacular.

Nepo baby. Family connections gave an advantage.

Cap. A straight-up lie.

Baby mama. A woman who has a man’s child with whom she is not married.

Side hustle. A flexible work you do alongside...

Rarely, do I abandon a book. Yet it happened again. Halfway through This Storm (2019) by James Ellroy, I admitted defeat. Almost three hundred pages in, I felt trapped in a maze that I couldn’t find the exit.

In the past month I’ve read two other gargantuan novels by Ellroy and lived to tell about it. T...

After Red Sheet, I moved on to The Enchanters (2023, Alfred A. Knopf) which immediately preceded Red Sheet. I’m working backwards in the book order, which is not unusual for me.

Who are the enchanters? I guess the title refers to the powerful and influential people who we look up to and believe in. In Ellroy’s crime mystery of...