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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
It's Easy Enough To Look It Up
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Brendan Gleeson has been in two recent thrillers that owe a lot to Quentin Tarantino . . . they both explore the interstitial time periods ...
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I Could Have Told You This Without Doing A Study
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A recent study done at The University of California asserts that people enjoy mystery and suspense stories more if the plot is spoiled . . ...
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Geeks, sportos, motorheads, dweebs, dorks, sluts, buttheads... they all think he's a righteous dude.
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Alexandra Robbins' new book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School doe...
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Romantic Getaway?
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My wife and I took a quick childless vacation to Philadelphia last week . . . a night of romance at The Thomas Bond House , a quaint, histo...
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Who Needs Anything Else?
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The plots of the HBO comedy Bored to Death are pretty thin, but you don't need a plot when you get to watch Ted Danson and Zach Galif...
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Motion Trumps Emotion
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There's nothing like getting your ass in gear for combating apathy and/or anxiety . . . and once you get your shit moving, all the othe...
The Anecdote of the Jar
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No one wants to hear parents bragging about their kids, so I'll make this quick and then get to the conspiracy theories: my six year ol...
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This One Comes Together At The End
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So last Monday night Catherine and I were supposed to see the new Planet of the Apes movie, which is called Rise of the Planet of the Apes ...
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Aphorism Week is Canceled!
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Due to yesterday's atrocious aphorism , The Sentence of Dave Board of Directors has decided (wisely) to cancel Aphorism Week . . . expec...
Aphorism Week Begins!
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It's aphorism week here at Sentence of Dave, and here is #1: Follow your dreams, even if they lead you down into a deep, dark and stick...
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A Full Day in NYC (Including The Whitney)
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Though over 1.5 million people live in Manhattan, it felt like a small town last week when we arrived at the 81st Street Subway Station an...
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A Song Contest!
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Anyone and everyone with an ounce of musical talent: head over to Gheorghe: The Blog for the First Annual G:TB Song Contest , sponsored by A...
Mine Shaft
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I highly recommend a visit to The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, NJ . . . it is the self-proclaimed "Fluorescent Mineral C...
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A Geography Question
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Is it better to live in Hoboken and have a view of the Manhattan skyline . . . or spend the extra cash and live in Manhattan, and have a vi...
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The Peeing Tree
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I assume you are familiar with Shel Silverstein's tale of sacrifice called The Giving Tree , but that's nothing compared with what ...
Two Strikes on China Mieville (But A Home Run for Rex Stout)
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For the second time, I have given up on a China Mieville novel . . . I tried to read Perdido Street Station and loved the wild imagery, th...
A Fantastic Ratio
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I finally polished off George R.R. Martin 's second novel in his epic The Song of Fire and Ice . . . A Clash of Kings is long, bleak, ...
Setting the Bar at the Bar
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This is often the case: you consider anyone who drinks less than you a teetotaller, and you consider anyone who drinks more than you a dipso...
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The Ascent of Money: Same Taste But More Filling
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The Ascent of Money : A Financial History of the World , by Scotsmen Niall Ferguson, is yet another book about economics that teaches this l...
I Don't Do This . . . But My Wife Might
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Beer over ice: classy or trashy ?
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Boolean Illogic
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I like girls and I like Girl Talk . . . but I dislike cars , yet I like Car Talk .
Two Boys + One Ball = WTF?
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My two sons play a game at the pool that appears simple from a distance-- you see two children bopping a ball back and forth on the concrete...
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Is This The Best Allocation of Valuable Resources?
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Sometimes when I wake up there is a white hair jutting from one of my sideburns, directly perpendicular to my head, and obviously my body la...
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Now I Know
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David Brooks taught me why I write this blog: thumos .
Remind Me To Do This
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In his new book The Social Animal , David Brooks cites a psychology experiment I'd like to replicate: in a college psychology class, the...
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Novels That The World May Be Better Off Without
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Just about everyone has the plot of a novel brewing in their head, and a few weeks ago a friend told me his idea: it involved a Jurassic Par...
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Remember Plato's Cave?
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David Brooks' new best-selling overview of cognitive science, The Social Animal: The Hidden Source of Love, Character, and Achievement ,...
A Very Cheeky Groundhog
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It's been a long time since I've seen a groundhog do anything cheeky (and it still wasn't nearly as cheeky as this ) but the dr...
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Are These Absolutely Necessary?
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Does an eighteen wheeler carrying a load of giant rocks really need to be any more intimidating than it already is? . . . I guess the parti...
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New Music: Sometimes There's A Man
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Sometimes There's A Man by The Density The Almighty Yojo has whipped up another collage of sound for your listening enjoyment--...
No Ghost In This Machine
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The Machinist is visual and visceral-- Christian Bale loses so much weight that he literally looks like one of the machines in the shop wh...
A Stupid and Annoying Paradox
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As you get older, your brain has a harder time recalling things, but your body remembers every injury crystal clear.
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Capsule Review
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True Blood is Buffy with boobs.
JCVD: A Meta-Action Movie
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I'm sure I would have appreciated JCVD more if I had seen more Jean-Claude Van Damme movies-- I think the only one I ever watched in it...
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The True Purpose of This Blog!
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So during my arduous summer project-- tearing down the ivy encrusted rotting fence in our backyard and replacing it with a similar but new n...
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I Cause Marital Conflict
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So I'm walking across the parking lot of our condo in Chatham and a lady riding by in a BMW stops her car and says to me (in her Boston ...
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Bonus Post at G:TB!
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If you want to know how to survive a tritium leak, and/or you like bugs, then you should check out my post at G:TB.
Our Band Could Be Your Life
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad, is less about the music and more a...
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Appropriate Meta-Cameo
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I rarely recount my dreams here because if I did, I'd be labelled a hypocrite (and because I almost never remember them) but bear with...
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Don't Squash My Delusions
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I am really, really good at swatting flies-- definitely way above average (or so I believe, but this could be an example of the Lake Wobegon...
Bonus Post at G:TB!
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If you love America, athletics, and women, then you'll probably want to check this out.
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Is This Rude or Just Clueless?
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So at the condo we stay at in Chatham, we often see the same families year to year-- and my parents have befriended some of them-- so an old...
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OBFT XVIII
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I thought this would be the year I finally missed the annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip, but I was able to get from Cape Cod to Kill Devil Hi...
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Two Uses For A Stand-up Paddle Board
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Stand-up paddle boarding on the Oyster Pond in Chatham is an excellent way to sneak up on cormorants, herons, and kingfishers . . . or--...
If The Economy Is So Bad, Why Is Everyone Driving To Cape Cod?
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When you wake up at 4:00 AM to drive to Cape Cod, you feel as if the universe owes you a traffic free ride . . . but the universe could care...
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Syrian Memory #7
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To show his devotion to God, St. Simeon the Stylite lived atop a fifty foot stone column for forty years . . . and if you visit this holy s...
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Syrian Memory #6 (Catherine Screws Up)
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We were lucky enough to accompany some US Embassy folks to the very high security "Austrian Position 16" in the Golan Heights-- th...
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Syrian Memory #5
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If you step on a land mine in the Golan Heights and hear that fatal "click," this is what you do: get someone to pile stones on yo...
Syrian Memory #4 (Warning: This Is Gross)
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While eating some pinkish chicken at a dodgy bar/dojo I contracted a parasite-- I won't go into details as to how the lab diagnosed that...
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Syrian Memory #3
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We received two notes this week at school: note #1 was given to me in the middle of Public Speaking class and it said our school would be cl...
Syrian Memory #2
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The Umayyad Mosque, the third holiest place in the Muslim religion (and the site has been a holy place for thousands of years: a temple ...
Syrian Memory #1
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While I am on vacation in Cape Cod and Kill Devil Hills, I have pre-loaded some thematic sentences for your reading pleasure . . . some of ...
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More Style Over Substance
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I couldn't really follow the plot of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and I'm not sure if you're supposed to-- it's a modern parody of R...
I Choose Style Over Substance
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After reading six hundred pages of the second George R.R. Martin novel, A Clash of Kings , I have given up-- and while I admit that the plot...
Memories Live In My Skull
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The first compact disc I ever bought was The Cult's Sonic Temple -- I was a freshman in college and I didn't even own a CD player y...
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Things You SHOULD Worry About
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Matt Ridley has convinced me not to worry about global warming-- near the end of his book The Rational Optimist , he makes a strong case tha...
How Did You Miss This, Ridley? Maybe Because You're a Limey.
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Matt Ridley, in his new book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves , does a fantastic job of debunking the prevailing pessimism fro...
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Who Would You Rather Not Be Sleeping With?
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Season 3 of Breaking Bad and Season 4 of Madmen both use the same conceit to add tension, pain, and drama: an ex-wife that stays in the p...
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I Learn Where I Stand
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I've been recommending Malcolm Gladwell's books to my wife for years, and she's never read one-- but last week I saw her readin...
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Breaking News! Little Fins Make A Big Difference!
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Apparently, I was not having alcohol induced vestibular problems while stand-up paddle boarding on the Raritan Friday morning . . . I took ...
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This Does Not Logically Follow That
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Stand up paddle-boarding the morning after a late night of pool and darts at the Corner Tavern wasn't such a good idea . . . but the mur...
Some Information on The Information
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Twenty years ago James Gleick's book Chaos yanked me from the morass of post-modern fiction into the world of deftly written science, ...
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Is This Sentence Correct? It Doesn't Matter Because You Can Dance To It.
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Accuracy is only one strategy among many that an idea may use to survive.
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I Respectfully Disagree
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I like the premise of the blog 20th Century Motors and the author makes a compelling case as to why the hypothesis "College Basketball...
Serendipity or Stupidity?
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My wife has no idea how to start summer vacation, and so instead of swimming, reading, watching movies, and going out to lunch, she is pain...
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Just Because You Can't Remember, Doesn't Mean It Was A Bad Idea
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So although I have no memory of this brainstorming session-- it was after a long day of imbibing while building a deluxe adjustable baske...
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If This Were In A Movie, You'd Call BullSh*t
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Though finding meaning in coincidences is an absurd past-time, as we are subjected to an enormous amount of stimuli every waking moment, and...
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This Is Getting Stupid
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My adult league soccer team played the predominantly Jamaican team in the first round of the playoffs last week-- and, unfortunately, we pul...
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Even More Ha-Joon Chang Analogies!
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In his book Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism , Ha-Joon Chang accuses wealthy countries and their ...
A Fast Review of the Past
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If you want to see a deaf mute kill a gangster's trigger-man with a fly rod, or a gun moll betray a private dick, or Robert Mitchum and...
Chang vs. Jeter vs. Ridley! To The Death!
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Matt Ridley's new book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves reminds us that even though many people are professing the end of...
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Irony, Hypocrisy, Christie
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While the extensive media coverage of Governor Christie's use of the State Helicopter to go to his son's baseball game is bi-partis...
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No Virginia . . . You Are An Idiot (Spoiler Alert!)
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I overheard a conversation between my two sons while we were driving to Grounds for Sculpture ; Ian-- who is six-- emphatically professed hi...
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A Cinema Question
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Are you supposed to cheer when Raymond Shaw shoots his Communist Red Queen mother at the end of The Manchurian Candidate ?
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Wonderful Images Day Two: Sperm Cake!
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Nearly twenty year's ago at my friend Jason's first wedding, I ended my rambling, extemporaneous, and generally incoherent best-man...
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A Wonderful Image Trumps An Annoying Event
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Aside from this incident -- which doesn't count because it happened while I was running a high fever-- I hadn't received a traffic t...
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Bonus! An Important Topic That Requires Your Immediate Consideration
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Bonus post today over at G:TB . . . you may feel secure in the fact that you've got your living will, your living trust, and your life ...
Upset Victory
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The last thing my friend Mario said to me as we stepped onto the field for our adult league soccer game last Wednesday was, "We will be...
Europe in the Air
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It sucks when your seven year old son gets the joke and you don't: Alex told me he wished we could go back to Busch Gardens because he l...
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Paradoxical Refuse
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The bottom of one of our garbage cans has rotted out, which raises an interesting question: how do you dispose of a trash receptacle? (I hav...
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Another Use For Your Closet
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Lately, my seven year old son Alex is on a roll . . . at dinner Tuesday night, he asked to be excused after eating only a couple bites of h...
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I'm Not A Professional Actor
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So it must hard for my seven year old son Alex when his younger brother churns out super-cool looking drawings on a daily basis . . . when ...
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I Was Thinking (That You Were Thinking)
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I Was Thinking (That You Were Thinking) by The Density A new song by The Density . . . this one explores the most awkward of momen...
Busted!
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My son Alex has had quite a week: first he confessed this lie , and then-- when he was on the way out the door for school on Thursday, my wi...
Words Of Advice
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Apparently, when your wife says, "I'm drawing a blank on what to get you for our anniversary," the proper response is not &quo...
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Some Like It Hot (But They Are Idiots)
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So the way I get my students to stop complaining about the heat (our classrooms are NOT air-conditioned, and they are poorly ventilated) is ...
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A Good Thriller You Probably Haven't Seen
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For once, my wife gave me a task that was in my wheelhouse . . . . a task which I not only completed, but also enjoyed (unlike the time she...
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That Was Close
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Alex came home with a bloody nose the other day and he told us that a certain wild kid punched him in the nose and that this wild kid was s...
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