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Land Ho! Two Five Star Recommendations!
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Summer is waning fast, but if you still have time left to binge some quality stuff, I have two superlative recommendations for you; both are...
The Red Bulls Game Was the LEAST Exciting Part of the Night (or Hostage Situation at the Carpark)
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Last night, Catherine, Alex, Ian and I went to Red Bull Arena to watch Wayne Rooney and DC United take on the Red Bulls; Rooney put in an un...
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Mission Accomplished?
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In the spirit of George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" proclamation, I'm claiming victory in my goal to improve...
Vacation is Over (Cue the Cave Crickets)
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No time for abstractions and bombast today, I'm back from vacation and battling a horde of cave crickets inside my beautifully designed ...
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New York was an Oyster Town (and may be again)
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Mark Kurlansky's book The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell is the perfect beach read if you are at the Jersey Shore (which I am) ...
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They Accepted the Challenge!
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Last night, the LED placard on the side of the Springfield Inn advertised three special events: 1) $3 COORS LIGHT 4 PM to Close 2...
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Trump: What, Me Worry?
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If you found some solace in the Manafort verdict and Cohen guilty plea, and you think now Trump and his followers are feeling the pressure, ...
LeCompt Grants Us Two Wishes (But Not Without a Price)
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Earlier in the summer, when I was on vacation with my family and my cousins, Catherine and I only made it through one set of LeCompt-- the b...
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Living in the Aftermath . . . Fun To Read, Not So Much To Live
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I often have a sinking sensation-- when I am stuck in traffic or taking a hot shower on a cold day or eating take-out food with disposable ...
I Was Cold Today!
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Best day of vacation ever: cold, windy and cloudy at the beach . . . I had to wear a sweatshirt for the first time in months.
Second Hand News to Me
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Fleetwood Mac is good music to listen to while driving to the beach, so I played "Rumours" for my kids earlier in the summer and t...
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The Test 113: Who Brings the Bacon?
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This week on The Test , match wits and financial acumen with the ladies as I test them on the net worth of various wealthy (and not so w...
Who is Culpable? The Fates? Or Dave?
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Tuesday night just before soccer practice began, Carl -- our visitor from the Bronx (through the Fresh Air Fund)-- fell and skinned his knee...
Last Time I Listen to Him . . .
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My son Alex told me a few weeks ago-- after a debacle with a used Chinese cell-phone-- that I should not offer him any options, I should jus...
Beauty Happens . . . It Really Does
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World -- An Us by Richard O. Prum is one of tho...
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Something Uplifting for the Young People
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I've been spinning my wheels lately in my digital music studio, working on lots of projects but never quite finishing anything, but ...
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Donald Trump Needs to Clean My Toilet
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The married couple from Nicaragua that cleans our house, who sought political asylum here in 2005 and have been issued yearly work permits f...
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Every Thundercloud Has a Silverish Lining
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For the past month, the weather in Jersey has been hideous: a damp, hot subtropical mess, but I keep telling myself: wildfires are worse tha...
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Gene Hackman Needs to Coach My Kids (on How to Enjoy Hoosiers)
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We watched Hoosiers this afternoon-- my kids just completed a week of basketball camp, so I thought it would be the perfect flick . . . plu...
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The Subtle Art of Naming a Canine (part II)
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My son Alex and his friend Jack decided they approve of dogs with human names-- so our dog Lola and Jack's dog Walter fit the bill-- but...
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Facebook Doesn't Want You To Read This (or Does It?)
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Many liberals believe we need the government to protect us from the power of corporations and corporate lobbying, and many conservatives bel...
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Meta-tears
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Once again, the season finale of GLOW got me all choked up . . . which is ridiculous, considering I was watching a completely fictitious...
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Shooting the Shit (head) at the Dog Park
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One of the joys of having a dog is visiting the dog park and chatting with the weird mammals that bring their pets; a few days ago, du...
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You're Welcome, David Sedaris!
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The new David Sedaris memoir/essay collection Calypso is darker and perhaps more candid and sincere than anything he's written previo...
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Where Is Kurt Russell When You Need Him?
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Yesterday, we drove to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, wandered around a bit (I had a green tea donut at the Doughnut Plant) and then ...
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Put the Secret Token in the Phantom Tollbooth?
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Andrew Lawler's new book on the Lost Colony of Roanoke is far more intricate than I imagined; I thought The Secret Token: Myth, Obsessi...
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The Test 112: What's in a Name?
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This week on our podcast, Stacey proclaims that this is the "stupidest test ever," but I still found it very difficult (unlike Cun...
Hot Potato
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There are studies that show that female teachers with math anxiety pass that anxiety to their female students and I get that-- because rig...
Gourmandise
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My 88 pound son made and ate one dozen fresh strawberry/raspberry-blackberry jam/chocolate syrup/whipped cream crepes this morning (meanw...
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No Creative Juices
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I'm off sugar, carbs, and alcohol for a couple days and I've got nothing.
OBFT XXV
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The 25th Annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip is in the books, another fantastic one-- thanks Whit!-- here are some of the things that happened:...
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Shit I'm Watching With the Kids #3
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If you want to scramble your children's brains, sit them down and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . . . my son Alex's f...
Shit I'm Watching with the Kids #2
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The kids and I watched Breaking Bad this winter and then I got sick with the flu and watched a few episodes of Better Call Saul and I lo...
Shit I'm Watching With the Kids #1
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I hope I'm in Norfolk by now, and here is some promised drivel to peruse while I'm attending OBFT XXV . . . I consider TV a social e...
The Joe DiMaggio of Something
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I always get a bit anxious right before I make the trip down to the annual Outer Banks Fishing Trip at my buddy Whitney's place in Kill...
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Forget the Media, Keep Your Eye on Andrew Wheeler
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The phrase that keeps running through my mind when I hear all this Trump insanity on the news-- the Iranian posturing, the Russia investigat...
Ant-Man is no Einstein
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We went and saw Ant-Man and the Wasp today and while it's certainly an entertaining movie-- Paul Rudd does his usual spot-on job at p...
You Are Where You're At
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I finished two powerful and poignant books (and thoroughly enjoyed both) on vacation that hammered home the exact reason you go on vacation-...
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Sentence Postponed
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I will write something when the weather down here in Sea Isle City returns to its senses.
Dave Rallies!
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We've had fantastic weather at the beach this week-- so there's been plenty of skimboarding and boogie-boarding, tennis and basketba...
You Haven't Read "Ask the Dust"? That's Sad . . .
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Our friend, colleague, and book club participant Nicole is heading to California with her husband, to teach in LA, and so for my book club c...
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The Turkish Star Wars of Alternative Rock?
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My experience with The Strokes is probably similar to most: I loved Is This It (both the music and the album cover--but complained that &q...
Fragment of Dave
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Sun, sand, surf, seafood, salt, etc.
Vacation Hygiene Confessions
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One of the simple pleasures of a week at the shore is utilizing the outdoor shower-- I've already used ours numerous times . . . after a...
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First World Problem #23,444
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I've taken a perfectly good first world car (a 2008 Toyota Sienna minivan) and turned it into a vehicle that would look appropriate dri...
Dad Gives His Son Advice: Don't Be That Guy
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My kids were all wound up this week, cooperating, rolling dice, painting miniatures and talking with each other in some arcane language . . ...
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Lebron James: Crucified For All Our (Basketball Viewing) Sins
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Planet Money 427: LeBron James is Still Underpaid makes a strong economic case that James doesn't make nearly what he's worth-- he&...
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Republicans Should Start Surfing
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After some very sketchy research and a few stereotypical assumptions that are probably statistically true (conservatives ride motorcycles, l...
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Lady in Red
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I am in an awful relationship with the hot sauce from Taco House , our new favorite hole-in-the-wall authentic taqueria in New Brunswick-- w...
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The Test 111: This Is Your "Go To" Test
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This week on our podcast The Test , Cunningham investigates how Stacey and I exude so much charm and charisma, and we reveal our "go t...
Book Review and Team Name Suggestion All Wrapped Up in One Sentence
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Florida, Lauren Groff's collection of geographically related short stories, plunges you into the all the dangers the state has to offer...
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What?
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We drove home from Cape Cod today and we are (ironically) enjoying the cool weather, low humidity, and much lighter traffic here in Jersey.
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Serena Wins, Mesomorphs Rejoice
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There's a tennis court on the premises where we are staying on the Cape, and I've been playing a lot of tennis with my kids-- sever...
Smart Phone, Smart Kids, Slow Dad
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I'm not sure if this is a generational thing or if my son Alex is impulsive and rude, but whenever I'm screwing something up with my...
We Try To Be an Out-To-Breakfast Family
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Perhaps because of the enormous vacuum in my life due to lack of World Cup games until Friday, or perhaps because we like to humor mom once ...
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Check Your Head
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Many years ago, I recognized that adult snowboarders were all wearing helmets and so I bought a helmet-- I'm not sure why adult snowboar...
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Random Vacation Notes, Cape Cod 2018 Edition
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We've only been up at the Cape since Saturday, but I've already got quite a few thoughts: 1) after an early morning bike ride on S...
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The Challenge of the Changeling
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I don't read much challenging non-fiction these days-- back in my twenties, I remember tackling Gravity's Rainbow (with a reader...
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