Sentence of Dave

  I am past the halfway point in my insane podcasting project: a thorough analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet  with a myriad of embedded c...

Took the train back from the Big Apple today . . . though we only spent one night, we did quite a bit: we got a great deal on Hotwire for th...

I am on a train so I will keep this brief, to avoid getting trainsick: I just finished Vadily Grossman's epic and enormous novel Staling...

Ahh . . . Spring Break . . . finally: Cat and I headed to the beach, and while the water was very, very cold, the air was alternatively very...

I have completed my course of three hyaluronic acid injections into my right knee, so now my knee is full of this gel-like substance, which ...

Spring "Fake" has begun-- I headed off to school today, rather glumly, because this was supposed to be Spring Break, but we used t...

I was getting stressed about saving the enormous audio files for my new podcast (Pig on the Wall) on my very old computer and rather old ext...

I did a bunch of chores around the house this afternoon: vacuumed, cleaned a bathroom, did some laundry, put the mattress cover and sheets o...

I just finished the highly entertaining  The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock  by David Weigel-- or I found it highly en...

I have been pretty down about education and teaching English lately: the majority of kids don't read; if possible, kids use AI to offloa...

My wife and I just finished the third season of  Dark Winds , the AMC show based on the Tony Hillerman novels, and the show lives up to the ...

  You may be familiar with Roger Dean's artwork from the various Yes album covers, but I also learned (from the fabulous book The Show T...

There are Mondays, and then there are dark, damp, rainy Mondays when your lunch consists of two hard-boiled eggs and some honey-roasted pean...

I suppose getting thumped in a pickleball match is better than not playing at all (but at least we won a few games this time —last week agai...

  My cousin Kim pronounced last year's Easter Pizza resurrection  as "total chaos" with no "quality control," and so...

My iMac-- which is now over a decade old-- is laboring under the duress of the large audio project I am working on . . . but VCU gutted it o...

I've got Duke, you've got Duke-- so why are we rooting against Duke?

Today is my favorite lesson in Creative Writing class: we read James Wright's lovely meditation on nature,  "A Blessing,"  and...

I medically overbooked myself after school this week: I got my first hyaluronic acid shot in my knee yesterday—ouch; I went to the dentist t...

I probably shouldn't reveal this, but I'm using DeepSeek—the cheap, knock-off AI—to craft the perfect NCAA bracket. However, I'm...