Charlie

I haven't been there since Museum Island was in the German Democratic Republic, but in those days it was worth the hassle of traveling into East Berlin, so I'm glad to hear that it is still as good as ever.

I wonder how many pornstars would wear those shoes to a photo shoot today?

Oooo! May I smell your screen?

This should be in "Reasons to Love Tennis" topic, with a notice to @BSR. .

I just tuned in and see that Fucsovics has won his first two sets against Sinner! Maybe he got stirred up by your comments elsewhere. Well, that spurt of energy from Fucsovics certainly didn't last--Sinner lost only 3 games in the next 3 sets.

Novak doesn't have many players left in his draw who are likely to stop him. I think he will probably finally tie Rafa with his 22nd major. And Rafa is not looking like he is going to be winning many more in the future (of course, most commentators said that at the beginning of last year, and he ended up winning half the majors last year).

Marlon Brando?

His outfit is as sexy as his car (souped up '54 Oldsmobile?)

I did the majority of my hiring back in the days when there were no Internet escort sites. Instead, there were print ads in magazines, like the Advocate's pink pages, or I simply called an agency and told them what I was looking for. There was less choice, but it made the choices easier.

The number of withdrawals and no-shows this year is pretty disappointing. And two former women's champions showed up unseeded and had to play the first round against one another (Azarenka beat Kenin).

The photo uploaded last week looks like a guy who is younger than the one in the photos from seven years ago.

Every hire I ever made is described in the daily journal that I have kept for almost fifty years (yes, it fills a whole file cabinet).

That would explain a lot of recent typos and confusing posts. I hope you can get the lens fixed quickly, because there will probably be lots to comment on at the Aussie Open.

I have just finished Polk's Folly: An American Family History, by William K. Polk, a retired history professor (Harvard and Chicago) and member of the State Department in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He tells the story of America through the history of his own family, whose seminal ancestor was Robert Bruce Pollok, a Scottish soldier in Oliver Cromwell's army who emigrated to the British colony of Maryland in the 17th century. Robert Pollok/Polk's piece of land on Chesapeake Bay was called "Polk's Folly" because it was not very promising financially, and later generations spread out over America, producing many prominent politicians and military men, including James K. Polk, President of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Polk family members played roles in the Revolution, the Civil War, and World Wars One and Two, everything from foot soldiers and fighter pilots to major generals and senior diplomats. Polk uses their experiences, based on troves of family documents as well as official papers, to tell a history of America as well as of his family, and he tells it extremely well, even though it becomes hard at times to keep track of how individuals are related to one another. What I found most interesting was his explanations of the sociology of the South during the 18th and 19th centuries, which was much more complex than a simple tale of heroes and villains. His perspective on 20th century world history, in which he and his immediate family were political and diplomatic insiders, is also fascinating. He ends the book with the mysterious murder of his brother George Polk, a well known international political journalist, in Greece during the Greek civil war following World War Two, a subject about which few Americans know very much. It made me want to move on to more sources about that messy post-war period.

Thanks for giving me another excuse to look at that photo again.

It's Gasquet, but which is your favorite country, France or New Zealand? It was actually a pretty close match all the way from beginning to end (I watched the whole thing).

I'm not sure that is a two lane roadway.

Umm, William, Jann Wenner is a man, and I don't think the pronoun is "her."

Chastity is also an abnormal lifestyle choice. What do they intend to do about it?

Before you ask: 1950 Buick.

If he has been a member of RM for seven years, it does seem unlikely that he is 25.

Curious. Of course, the reviewer's photo could be newer than the escort's photos in the ad. (The escort does have one unusual tat on his left side that is revealed in only one of the photos.)

The custom in the US has been for Presidents to establish their own museums/libraries after they leave office, usually with financial help from private donors. If I remember correctly, Clinton and GW Bush were already publicly planning their libraries before they left office.

Why does the photo posted next to the reviewer look exactly like the escort? In any event, I'll keep an eye out for him cruising around town in a BMW.

I saw The Mousetrap at the St. Martin's Theater sometime in the 1970s, but I don't remember anything about the plot.