Chris Erskine: This is goodbye, but before I go, some thanks are in order
So, now I'm finally going. Promise. This goodbye has been like a Cher farewell tour, it goes on and on and on .... Just go already, right? After 30 years...
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Chris Erskine: The coronavirus pandemic is terrifying — it’s OK to laugh
Did you hear the one about the priest who baptized a baby with a Super Soaker to follow social distancing guidelines? Or this one: Did you know 2020 is a...
Chris Erskine: My daughter’s wedding is on hold. Blame coronavirus
Like you, we take a lot of walks these days to get out of the house during the coronavirus shutdown. I've got ticks, I've got aphids, my knees are about...
Chris Erskine: I’ve fallen for my coronavirus quarantine captors. Especially the furry one
Hostage Day No. 21: At some point, men will need haircuts and the nail salons will be forced to reopen, or this thing could get really ugly. As it is,...
Chris Erskine: The latest shortage? Dogs and cats, as folks foster and adopt pets during quarantine
Emily Bates needed some sort of salve for her growing sense of dread. Her solution: adopting a terrier mix named Frankie. Heidi Torres needed a coronavirus distraction for her three...
Chris Erskine: When cabin fever strikes, I try board games and an icy ‘quarantini’
Irish as a boiled carrot, I always celebrate St. Patrick's Day in my usual way, hollering Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole" on street corners and small social gatherings of...
Chris Erskine: Giving a daughter away at her wedding? Hardly. It costs a fortune
My baby sister visited the other day and tossed all our dead plants. The nerve, right? It wasn't as though they'd been dead long, only a year. Most prominent was...
Chris Erskine: ‘1917’ ranks among the best war movies ever. Here’s where it lands on my top 10
The grimy and exhausted foot soldier, a cigarette dangling from the lips, is a complicated and irresistible force — in movies and in life. Prediction: War movies will outlast every...
Chris Erskine: Human beings are so overrated. But the good ones make up for it
I miss beer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and late-night comics everyone discussed the next day. White Claw (and other millennial moonshines) are now putting breweries out of business, Ninja...
On Nevada’s Electric Highway in a Tesla, a Wild West ethos versus a techie future
We were taking a smarty-pants car through honky-tonky country — Reno to Las Vegas. Our route: U.S. 95, Nevada's Electric Highway, a mostly two-lane road that has been peppered with...