Your wife is not a quitter. At all. Yeah, I haven't looked at the clips of it or anything but I know Hollyweird and it had to be an act, a publicity stunt. It stole the headlines and distracted (over?) half the country for a while.
Well, the plates are only temporary and authorize nice spots that will be closer. Normally not a big Chinese cuisine fan but I might go there just because of the sign!
Up in Wisconsin dey have a Shmelt Fry every Friday night somewhere in all the little towns and it is yummy to da tummy. As to the rest of it you are point on with all of your questions.
As far as I remember, DB had gotten a copy of the King James Version of the Bible and intended on reading it from cover to cover. His Bible stories are a result of that. That's just going from my, occasionally faulty, memory. I thought that particular story was quite succinct the way he told it and captured the spirit of it nicely. The Mars thing was interesting.