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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Wow.
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Katherine Boo's new book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is astounding on three levels: 1) ...
Alex and I Take the High Road
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The other night, I was reading my kids Daniel Pinkwater's awesomely bizarre children's book Lizard Music, and we came to the part w...
Regrets: If You Don't Have Them You Are Dumb
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I try to appreciate all that I have -- which I know is a lot . . . especially because I'm reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Lif...
Another Rule to Live By
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Even if you are going somewhere by car, you should still dress for the weather outside.
And I Thought I Was Living in a Democracy
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My wife and I were "debating" over the placement of a piece of furniture, and my younger son Ian overheard this discussion and rem...
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I'll Try Anything If It's Covered . . .
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This Isn't Me, But It's What Happened. This is me, several hours later. So I guess I'm at the age where I'll let a p...
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North Conway Pros and Cons
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Over winter break we took a family vacation to North Conway, New Hampshire and stayed at the Red Jacket Resort, a big family-friendly hotel ...
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I Did Suffer a 103 Fever!
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Catherine Boo's new book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity -- a non-fiction account of life ...
Inadvertent Test
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I accidentally performed a social experiment on my son Alex last Thursday night: it was soccer clinic night, and Ian was sick with the flu -...
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My Kids Did Not Take the Expected Journey
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The Hobbit is a totally entertaining film -- though a bit over-the-top with the visual effects (especially the battling stone giants . . ...
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It's A Free Country Part II
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In America, you have the right to put a slice of pig on your veggie burger, and you also apparently have the right to drive a twenty year ol...
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It's a Free Country
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Sometimes, I put a couple slices of ham on my veggie burger.
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Emo Finally Defined
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Ironically, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the first book I have read entirely in electronic format (on my wife's Kindle) . . . ...
Sometimes It Takes A Decade For Closure
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If you are frustrated by the incomprehensible school shooting Newtown, Connecticut, I highly recommend that you take a step back in time ...
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A Sentence with Very Little Resolve
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My 2013 New Year's Resolution has me stumped -- I need to lose a few pounds, but no one cares about that, and I don't feel like rest...
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These Might Be the Best Sentences of 2012
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I just finished reading "The Year in Review" section of The Week magazine, and -- wow! -- Sentence of Dave did not tackle any of ...
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Chevy Chase Moment . . . With Blood
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My parents needed some help getting the Lionel trains to run in a circle around the tree, and so I volunteered to troubleshoot the track -- ...
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Succulent Suffixes (Dave is Back! With a Topic That His Dog Would Enjoy)
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If you affix the word "chop" to any type of meat -- pork chop, veal chop, turkey chop -- then I don't find the dish appetizing...
Union Logic, Woof!
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In a situation where there is global competition, such as the auto industry and other manufacturing, it's going to be tough to defend th...
My Master is Good
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I am very, very sorry for my poor typing yesterday -- my paws are large and clumsy and my vocabulary is rather limited, but after hours of i...
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Sentence of Dog
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While I am on vacation in New Hampshire, my dog Sirius has volunteered to write a sentence each day for the blog . . . he is guarding our ho...
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We Have A Lot of Spoons
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Thirty two, to be exact, and I'm talking about adult, silverware type spoons -- I didn't include any of the kiddie spoons with plast...
My Children Do Not Obey The Laws (of Gravity)
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Often, when I am sitting in my kitchen, drinking a beer and reading a book, and my children are upstairs, getting ready for bed, I wonder: h...
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Every Two Years . . .
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There are some topics of conversation that don't come up very often -- and my two favorites, which are related and appeal to the same su...
Dave Suffers For the Children of the World!
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I am usually pretty lame at soliciting charitable donations from the students for our annual holiday gift drive -- especially in comparison ...
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Bonus!
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If you don't care about the Giants, but you love all things "Dave," then head over to Gheorghe: The Blog for a book review an...
It's Best Not To Have Any Expectations
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I was incredibly excited about the Giants/ Falcons game last weekend, because my parents were taking the boys for the afternoon, and it was ...
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Girls Are So Much Smarter Than Me
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You could have given me a million years, and I still wouldn't have come up with the word "limiting" as a less abrasive synonym...
I Am So Much Smarter Than My Students
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"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a science-fiction short story by written in 1973 by Ursula Le Guin, and if you've nev...
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I Am Average!
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The average American male's self-reported weight has increased from 180 pounds in 1990 to 196 pounds in 2012 . . . and I am wondering if...
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The Tent is Like a Castle
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So far, the new Dave Eggers book A Hologram for the King reminds me of a modernized version of The Castle , by Frank Kafka; Alan just can...
Christmas Rant #1,032,293
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Something to consider when over-consuming during the holiday season, Costco and Trader Joe's pay their employees a living wage, while ...
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A Good Lesson: Fake It
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According to Paul Tough's new book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, the most important thing th...
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What the F#$@ Does Dave Know About The Higgs Boson?
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Though I am completely unqualified to say anything regarding physics, this hasn't deterred me at all; I have now written two pieces abou...
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Lost in the Fun Home
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Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is by far the best existentialist illustrated Joycean ...
Catfish Smells Fishy
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I can't put my finger on exactly what it is about the documentary Catfish, but the story seems too neat, too contrived, and too perfe...
Chucker vs. Shooter
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Sometimes, when I am in an existential mood, I wonder: Am I a chucker or a shooter? but this is one of those intractable philosophical co...
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The Gospel According to Alex
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According to my eight year old son, the three wise men brought the baby Jesus "gold, Frankenstein, and myrrh."
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When In Doubt, Blame It On Your Wife
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I certainly have no problem blaming things on my kids that are actually my own fault , but there are times when it's much more logical t...
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The Yellow Birds: Catch-22 Without the Jokes
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The Yellow Birds , a novel written by Iraqi War veteran Kevin Powers, has a scene reminiscent of Catch-22 : as I raced to the finish of t...
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One of the Many Wonderful Things About Knowing Whitney Even Longer Than I've Known My Wife
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I recently pointed out that one of the wonderful things about being married is the verbal shorthand you have for memories -- a short and si...
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Things Overheard in the Hallway
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One sophomore said to another, "You're like a shrimp . . . you're a shellfish" and this was such a strange phrase that I c...
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A Fun Game (if you like loud noises)
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A few weeks ago, we converted our spare change into an Amazon Gift Card, and this has led to some impulse purchases . . . the latest is...
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One of the Many Wonderful Things About Marriage
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On our way up to Vermont this Thanksgiving, we stopped to eat at Roy Rogers, and my wife said, "Remember what happened at Roy Rogers?&...
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Was Dave One-Upped or One-Downed?
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When I mentioned that my dog Sirius requires two bags for his morning walk, my friend Stacey -- who is taller than me, but has a much smalle...
Bigfoot vs. Ram Bomjon
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There are two types of people : 1) people rooting for a conclusive Bigfoot encounter . . . and if you are one of these types of people, t...
Just Living My Life, Dave-Style
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As I was walking out the door on Wednesday morning, I realized that I had forgotten my cell-phone, and so I went back into the kitchen to re...
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The Car: Much Faster Than A Horse
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This Thanksgiving, we were able to resurrect an old tradition -- one we haven't done in a few years-- we hightailed it out of Jersey to ...
My Team Is Losing . . .
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In Hanna Rosin's new book The End of Men and the Rise of Women, she uses the stark contrast between how her son and how her daughter ...
Heady Topper: I Am Undecided
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On our Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Bolton Valley, Vermont, there was much mention of the legendary Heady Topper Imperial I.P.A -- a locall...
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Hurray For Zman! Hurray for Man!
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It's a good thing Sentence of Dave super-commenter Zman recommended that I read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian feminist novel H...
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There are Two Types of People
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No matter how stupid the idea is, I love it when an essay start with the premise "there are two types of people" and so I will fol...
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Five Years Of Sentence of Dave!
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I have been writing this blog for so long, that I can't really remember much that happened before its inception (I refer to these events...
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One Man, Two Bags . . .
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My dog has gone from being a one bagger to a two bagger, and while this is a good thing in a baseball game, it's NOT such a good thing d...
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Happy Thanksgiving
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For the greatest Thanksgiving monologue in cinematic history, go to the seven minute mark of this excerpt of Pieces of April (and then, a...
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First World Problems
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Now that our power is back, I am happy to say that the worst problem in our house is a universal one -- and though I didn't flush the to...
The Nerds No Longer Need to Get Revenge
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I asked my son Alex what he was doing on the playground with his friends, and he told me -- without any shame-- that they were playing a...
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Weekend of Dave!
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Catherine and I attended two parties over the weekend . . . Friday night was the Third Annual Scary Story Contest and Saturday night was a ...
Did Dave Defend His Title?
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There was a big crowd this year for Liz and Eric's Third Annual Scary Story Contest , and I was feeling some anxiety because I wanted to...
Hot Things and Stupid Decisions
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Last Wednesday afternoon, my son Ian walked into the small bathroom off our living room,yelled "It's so hot in here!" and then...
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The Road in the Sky
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Peter Heller's new novel The Dog Stars returns to a postapocalyptic world similar to Cormac McCarthy's The Road , but this story is ...
It's A Miracle That I Convinced SomeoneTo Marry Me
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Right now in my English class we are the "Process Analysis" unit, which is a fancy way to describe a "How To" essay -- a...
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Good Thing This Belt Wasn't a Bunny Rabbit
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My black leather belt got stuck in one of the loops of my blue jeans, which really annoyed me, and so I gave it a Lenny-esque yank and ri...
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Little Nozzle Hides Out in My Kitchen For Three Years!
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Three years ago, we completely remodelled our kitchen, and there are still some features that I haven't utilized . . . because I hav...
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The Sandy Seven
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The "freshman fifteen" has been debunked , but I can attest that the "Sandy Seven" is real . . . I'm wearing it arou...
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A Cinematic Analogy Both Succeeds and Fails in the Same Moment
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I liked The Brothers Bloom , but I didn't love it -- it is definitely a film with more style than substance, which also describes the br...
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This Land Is Herland, This Land Is Your Land . . . and You Can Have It
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Recently, my colleagues and I have been speculating as to what the world would be like if women were in charge, and I lamented that no g...
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"How Music Works" Explains How Music Works
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David Byrne's new book How Music Works is impressive on many levels: the book itself is a work of art -- it has a black and white minim...
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A Blogging Miracle!
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Yesterday, my editor over at Gheorghe: The Blog commanded me to write something -- and I suppose he had a right to do this, since my school...
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Bonus! Dave Categorizes All Humans!
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If you're like me, then you like when people simplify things enormously . . . so head on over to Gheorghe: The Blog , where I use my inc...
There Are Job Openings in Oooguruk!
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I highly recommend Jeanne Marie Laskas' new book Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Uns...
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Dave Feeds Hurricane Refugee!
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In the days after the hurricane, the lines were long at the grocery store, as most people didn't have power and could only buy a little ...
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Meet The Neighbors . . . Yikes.
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Hurricane Sandy inspired much communal sentiment in our neighborhood -- we live in a small town and so we are already friendly with the majo...
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Seven Reasons a Snow Day is Better Than a Hurricane Day
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1) You can't sled on wet leaves; 2) you can't make a rain-man (unless you're Dustin Hoffman); 3) kids are tempted to swing Tar...
Hurricane Sandy Zeugma
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Hurricane Sandy survivors in my neighborhood have decided that the best coping mechanism for a cold dark powerless house is to find someone ...
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I Hate When People Say This
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Anyone who says they like every kind of music doesn't like any kind of music.
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Blueberries grow in Maine, but where do Boo Berries grow?
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Chapter Two of Jeanne Marie Laskas' new book Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen...
F*&king Failure and F*%king Triumph
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I was very angry Saturday morning -- I tried to do some music recording, but my MIDI keyboard was creating some kind of massive feedback loo...
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