I sat across the diner table from my affable interview subject, David Lindsay-Abaire. My stomach churned with envy and rage. This memory came back when the Tony noms were announced. “Kimberly Akimbo”, book and lyrics by David-Lindsay Abaire, is up for Best Musical. It was 2001, and I was a…

I scraped by with crappy jobs like typing academic papers, and amused myself with petty crime. My favorite activity was to break into people’s houses while they were away. Because very little crime happened in the better neighborhoods, London house doors were usually closed with a thin hook and eye…

PART ONE 2: AM, Heathrow Airport, London, 1980. I disembarked the United Airlines flight from New York. After a disastrous visit home to my family in New York, I’d traveled over 24 hours to get back to my London flat. I waited in line, and handed over my passport to the official…

Marjorie Taylor Green shows Darryl The Future The Liberals Want It had been a good day. Darryl had attended a liberal protest against anti-vaxxing — fucking libtards! Darryl was a big guy wearing a black t-shirt with an American flag cross and the slogan “Stand For The Flag Kneel For…

Once they start having sex, Bertie finds that Jeeves is…insatiable. NSFW — “Jeeves, would you…kindly step away a bit?” “Sir?” Jeeves remained where he was, impassive as is his wont. Except for his Rock of Gibraltar pressed firmly against my back whilst I sat at the piano. …

Elisa DeCarlo Sex was why my mother and her friends wore bright red lipstick and tossed their heads back when they laughed, white teeth bright against their lipstick. Sex was why my father and his friends dressed like peacocks in Nehru jackets and green velvet suits and all the emblems…

P.G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster and Jeeves discuss great works of literature Charles Dickens “A Tale Of Two Cities” “Jeeves, once again, I have been misled! You must give our bookseller a stern talking-to!” “Indeed, sir?” “This Tale Of Two Cities, Jeeves. It’s got a corking plot, with old Manette going…

P.G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster and Jeeves discuss great works of literature Oscar Wilde “The Picture Of Dorian Grey” “Jeeves, a question.” “Yes, sir?” “If you had a portrait in the attic that grew old, while you stayed young, but the rummy thing is that the portrait would show all of…

P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster And Jeeves discuss great works of literature Ernest Hemingway “Men Without Women” “I say, Jeeves!” “Yes, sir?” “One of the Americans at the Savoy told me that Fscot Fitzgerald was a ‘feminine’ writer, that if I wanted the ‘real stuff’, I needed to read this…