This is awful. I get occular migraines where I can't read but the one where I had aphasia was the worst. I was at dinner with my husband and forgot his name, and tried to look it up on my phone cuz it was the same as my brother's name, and then I was crying in the bathroom cuz I was so embarrassed.

this is true.

David Copperfield is laughing out loud funny, but it's a dash of salt in the stew.

We have a whole section of family who ended up in Venezuela.

Lesser known fact is that a lot of the surviving Jewish families also expatriated to South America.

The Maintenance Phase podcast has a couple of episodes like this, including the origins of snake oil.

I'm trying to think of how to describe the NYC sense of humor and it's something like:

I'm explaining to you, an ABSOLUTE idiot, how I AM going to do whatever THE FUCK I want, and you can DIE MAD about it because you are not in fact the boss of me.

Damn fine