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3/25/10
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There is nothing more serene to me than running barefoot on the beach with my iPod, or that's how it used to be, but I think I will be m...
3/24/10
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I rarely post videos, but I'm sure that this is the most important film since Citizen Kane , and it inspired the kids and me to build a ...
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3/23/10
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On St. Patrick's Day, my son Alex had some questions about Ireland, and so I showed him a map and put on some Irish music (Horslips) and...
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We've Got Computers . . . Let's Use Them!
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Because of all the flooding, I forgot to mention just how much I hate daylight savings time-- it's not just the darkness in the morning,...
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3/21/10
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If you can stomach it, you should read The Good Soldiers , David Finkel's account of his time with battalion 2-16 during "the surge...
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The Seven Ages of Friendship (Or Six . . . Whatever)
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The older you get, the longer it takes to become friends with an acquaintance: kindergarteners at the park become friends in minutes . . . ...
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3/19/10
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It's a little embarrassing, but I can't stop listening to the new Beach House album; it's called "Teen Dream" and th...
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3/18/10
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Chop Shop takes you to a fantastic world, yet it feels completely natural . . . it begins with day laborers hustling for jobs-- is it Boliv...
Stuck
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I grabbed Anneli Rufus's new book Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On on an impulse because it has the same title as a new ...
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3/16/10
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Everyone is grouchy at work because of contract negotiations and expected budget cuts, and we wear buttons that say "No Contract, still...
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Points Are Everything (and Nothing)
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Odd combination of events: high school play, high winds, and fairly high flooding . . . and a new English office chart and "points"...
3/14/10
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Getting a massage is my favorite form of entertainment, not only because it feels good, but also because it is entertainment without negativ...
Why Don't People Aske Me About This More Often?
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Yesterday, when the teacher I share a wall with asked me to come in and say a few words about the singularity, this made me increibly happy ...
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3/12/10
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I am beginning to think that Hamlet is a little like Neo, from the film The Matrix ; Hamlet is somehow subconsciously aware that he is in a...
3/11/10
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Thank God the good playground is a block away from our house, as this spares me the humiliation of having to organize "play dates"...
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Super Freaky
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Superfreakonomics is just as entertaining as Levitt and Dubner's first book, but it's a bit more controversial-- amidst its "...
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Hyperion
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There's nothing more fun (for an English teacher) than reading the same book at the same time as someone else, especially if it's ob...
3/8/10
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The French movie Cache (Hidden) is riveting and infuriating, you have to see but it will drive you crazy-- it will make you paranoid, it wi...
Pregnant Pause
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Sometimes, when I've been away from my kids for a few hours, and I see someone's cute little baby, I think to myself: I should get C...
I Cleverly Trick Myself
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While trying to use some reverse psychology on my kids, I outsmarted myself; Alex and Ian are close enough in size that they wear the same...
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3/5/10
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So the other day Catherine was already home when I got home from school, which is a rare event once soccer season is over (she had a half da...
Books Are Better With Pictures
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If you're looking for a novel that tackles big themes-- art and design, love and alienation, fate and meaning-- but you need some pictu...
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3/3/10
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The Hurt Locker takes place in Baghdad-- but I was able to recognize where they filmed it, Amman . . . when we lived in Damascus, we would ...
Birthday Slant Rhyme
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Today is our day: me, Seuss, and Bon Jovi, and I am the youngest, Though I just turned forty.
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2/28/10
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Alex and Ian found a lady-bug in the kitchen (possibly the same one that crawled on my wife's face in the night?) and Ian convinced Alex...
2/27/10
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I love paradoxes and here is a great one from The Strong Horse, Lee Smith's new book on Middle East politics: "after 9/11, the schi...
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2/26/10
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WARNING: we watched Gremlins the other night with the kids, and though it's a little violent, they loved it . . . in this age of digit...
2/25/10
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I just started Lee Smith's new book on Middle East politics called The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizatio...
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2/24/10
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Alex coined a word the other night; he said I should "buffle" someone with my newly shaven head, because it was "spiky and d...
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2/23/10
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a bit long for a thriller, but every time it slowed down, it was for a good reason-- and it's moody ...
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Sweet Sweet Cup Holder
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I'm proud of the fact that I've been driving the same car since 1994 (a Jeep Cherokee Sport-- solid V6 engine and no power windows ...
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2/21/10
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Our Hamilton Beach food processor has these settings: Pulse, Grate, Quick Clean, Grind, Stir, Beat, Aerate, Shred, Puree, Blend, Crumb, Liq...
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2/20/10
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If you don't check the text messages on your cell phone for a long time, then when you finally do-- they tell a little story, and you ar...
2/19/10
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Note to self: penicillin gives me a rash.
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2/18/10
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I loved the new Coen brothers movie, A Serious Man , for the first half hour, but then, once the theme dawned on me, it became harder to enj...
2/17/10
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Ian groggily greeted me 6:24 Monday morning with this declaration, "Pirates play chess."
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2/16/10
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If there were any kind of cosmic justice, I wouldn't have had to endure A Gazillion Bubbles this weekend, since I took Alex to see One ...
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Slightly Better Than Having Your Heart Ripped Out On A Ziggurat
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Sea Isle City Polar Plunge Recap: a good turn-out, and everyone who was on time plunged, except our photographer Celine; the plungers wer...
2/14/10
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Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger are with us no longer, but their legacy is: like Beck, they both championed the loser-- Salinger gave a voice ...
2/13/10
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This very well could be the best moment of the rest of your life-- the moment that your thoughts are most lucid and your body is most respon...
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Damned Child Locks!
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After a fantastic day of snowboarding yesterday, Terry, Kim, Stacy and I hopped in my Subaru to head home, but on the way out of town I spo...
Poop and Sensitivity
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On the same day that my six year old son Alex wrote and illustrated a book called My Family (which had a page for every person in the famil...
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Surprise! You Have Strep!
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Some people say everything happens for a reason, and though I don't believe them, it is fun to pretend that this might be true; so the...
2/8/10
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Together is a Swedish film about a commune in the mid-seventies, and the moral is that you can't fight human nature: no matter how muc...
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2/7/10
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Apparently, high school kids find it really scary and funny if their teacher leaps over his desk and knocks over a chair and a water bottle ...
2/6/10
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Missed the turn for Wawa and had to go to Quick Check for coffee, and I'm glad I did because on the register there was a sticker that re...
If You're Dave, You Need to Know This Shit
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Just in case there's some kind of Freaky Friday type incident, and your mind suddenly inhabits my body, here is my mnemonic for remembe...
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2/4/10
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Alex and I were both occasionally a little lost and occasionally a little antsy during Charles Ross's One Man Star Wars Trilogy , but by...
2/3/10
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My wife thinks we should spend some money on painting our house, but I think we should spend some money on a hollow-bodied guitar; my ratio...
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My Cast For Catcher
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Now that J.D. Salinger is finally dead, perhaps his family will allow a movie to be made of The Catcher in the Rye , and I'm assuming ...
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Olympic Snowboarding Theme
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Today my blogging efforts are here ; I wrote an Official Olympic Snowboarding preview for Gheorghe: The Blog , which mainly consists of ram...
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1/31/10
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This is a very subjective review, but the new Neon Indian album "Psychic Chasms" seems to be tailored exactly for my brain-- it...
Some Cars
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More Malcolm Gladwell tidbits from What the Dog Saw : in most cities, five percent of the cars produce 55% of the carbon monoxide pollution...
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1/29/10
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According to a Malcolm Gladwell in his new anthology What the Dog Saw (and also according to the cities of Denver and St. Louis) it is easi...
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1/28/10
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I hate our new coffeemaker, though it looks much nicer than our old coffee maker-- which was a cheap piece of junk, and it had no built -in ...
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1/27/10
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Good thing there were witnesses: after eating most of my apple last Friday, I announced to Stacy and Rachel (that's right, go ahead and...
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1/26/10
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If you want to watch something weird and artsy, with shades of Welcome to the Dollhouse (a world where children are more adult than the adu...
1/25/10
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I know it's crass, but sometimes when I'm about to complain about something trivial, I think to myself: what do you have to complai...
Seamen Nailing Things
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You know it's going to be a good history book when you read a sentence like this: "Among the able seamen, the initial going rate w...
1/23/10
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In the Loop is a political satire with enough profanity rival David Mamet's Glengarry Glenross and enough droll comedy to rival the ori...
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1/22/10
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I was rushing to finish "making water" because the bell had rung and I needed to get to class, and in my rush, I somehow flung my...
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Update!
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Click here for the news story about what I witnessed yesterday-- see the sentence below-- the guy who I watched jump off the edge of the b...
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1/21/10
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While driving home from Monroe yesterday after a Craigslist purchase of a desk for Alex (which filled the back of my Jeep because there was ...
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1/19/10
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We have the screen saver on our new iMac hooked into iPhoto, so it shows random pictures throughout the day, which is cool, except when it s...
It's Cool, Man
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Alex had the misfortune of having two accidents at school in one day: 1) he misjudged the consistency of his flatulence 2) he soaked himself...
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1/17/10
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Something I am proud of: in twenty two years of driving, I have never run out of gas (I mention this because my wife told me a teacher at h...
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1/16/10
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In Benjamin Phelan's essay "How We Evolve" (another from the collection The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2009 )...
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1/15/10
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At some point during every successful rock band's existence, they underwent a radical change, a phase change, and it must have been wild...
1/14/10
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If you miss old trippy Ween, check out Animal Collective's album Merriweather Post Pavilion-- it sounds like the album cover (above).
1/13/10
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I feel sorry for businessmen because there's no way they can live up to the standards George Clooney sets for them: in the looks, cool...
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1/12/10
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Intelligence is immunity, stupidity a contagion.
1/11/10
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Fans of this blog will be happy to know it is that time of year again . . . that special time when the thermometer remains stubbornly below ...
1/10/10
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Ian has been very polite in the mornings lately; he has encouraged me to have a "happy holiday," a "happy new year," an...
1/9/10
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The scene is the dinner table: Ian says, "Is this bad to say-- the god is dead?" and Dad says, "Yeah, you probably shouldn...
1/8/10
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One of my favorite things to think about is that brief (archaelogically speaking) period of time when modern humans shared the European land...
Don't Read This Post (or Watch This Movie)
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Two works that will make you feel bad about being a member of the human race: 1) Hunger , the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' hunger ...
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1/6/10
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While driving to the Snydersville Diner-- on our FAMILY vacation-- Catherine noticed a billboard that read "Spread Eagle Realty: a ful...
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This Movie Should Not Be Rated G
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Don't believe the previews, Up is not a movie to see with your kids (only because it's disturbing for them to watch a grown man c...
1/4/10
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If it were possible to patent a party concept, our neighbors should patent this one: on New Year's Eve they had six or seven families o...
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He Turned Them Into Newts! It Gets Better . . .
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War with the Newts by Karel Capek falls into a small but illustrious category: Super Excellent Books I've Read by Czech Authors (the ...
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1/2/2010
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We survived our first ski trip with the kids-- including packing (snow pants, gloves, hats, long underwear, fleeces and lots of socks); a 12...
A Very Contextual and Very Specific Resolution
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Happy New Year . . . and, in the spirit of the future, I'd like to come clean about the past: that apt end of the year quote I posted ...
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