Auntie Pasta is pissed. And you’d be too, if your nickname was Auntie Pasta and you read the piece in Friday’s Times about the “Vigil-Aunties” of Pakistan. These are the “older, bossy and often judgmental women” who go around breaking up couples who are behaving in an “immoral” manner in public places. VIGIL-AUNTIES!...

For root canal yet. I know, I know. If you actually go to the dentist, rather than simply ignore your teeth until they decay and rot away in your mouth, it means that you’re not a total coward. That’s what my nice dentist says. But I don’t believe a word of it. Not even the “ands” and the “thes.” I am so terrified that I...

Well, sorta. Hostess Brands, maker of Twinkies and assorted other highly addictive, no nutritional value nonfoods, filed for bankruptcy last week, throwing some of us into a not-so-mild panic. Bye, Bye Sugar High What? No Twinkies? Not to mention Sno Balls, Ding Dongs, Suzie Qs, or Ho Hos. And worst of all for me, who doesn’t really like any of the...

Be afraid, be very afraid. Those women from Absolutely Fabulous are back, and if they can’t corrupt you, you’re incorruptible.No one is incorruptible. Least of all Eddy and “Pats,” AKA Patsy Stone, full name: Eurydice Collette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone. Her mother, besides being a bit of a literary poseur,...

Movies Are Louder Than Ever If you’re Generation X, Y, Z or any other letter, you will soon be experiencing loss of hearing, not to mention turbulence. Baby boomers: Can you hear me? You’re probably on your second hearing aid and wondering why the hell they haven’t figured out how to keep out the ambient sounds. But wait! Being a little deaf might...