My partner might not be a Southerner, but I’ve gotten her hooked on sweet tea, catfish and boiled squash.

Sweet tea made well and properly iced is about the best thing ever. How anyone can not like this simply mystifies me.

The catfish doesn’t taste as good as it did when I used to catch it myself and we’d eat it fresh from the river, but it still is pretty delectable.

And boiled summer squash is one of the side dishes with the best ratio of taste to effort. Takes 10-12 minutes to make and tastes better than most things that take hours.

Andy Murray is supposedly the first Brit to win Wimbledon in 77 years.

But Virginia Wade won it in 1977. Or don’t women count?

Also, why are there no women in the Tour de France?

It’s hard to feel bad for a woman worth millions of dollars, but an artist wanting to ban zillions of idiots holding up iphones and even ipads (yes, it does happen) to take terrible, shaky video of something happening right in front of their faces – well that I can understand perfectly.

I like a few She & Him songs. Never understood the Zooey Deschanel adoration from geeks (at least, adoration of her typical on-screen persona), but then the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype has always made me hurl. No, I’ve always been far more attracted to the Cosimas of the world anyway.

That aside, I am inveterate photographer but only do it when it doesn’t disturb other people. It’d never even occur to me to hold up my phone inside some concert venue and take photos or video. Anyone who does that should be thrown out as a matter of course, in my opinion.

There’s a state park in Maine called “Quoddy Head.”

That’s a good insult. I think I’ll start calling people “Quoddy heads.”

“That the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Shut up, you quoddy head!”

I like it.