Sentence of Dave
The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Analysis of The Ur Post (Dedicated to My Beloved Wife)
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Eleven years ago, I started writing a blog called Sentence of Dave. The premise was simple: rain or shine, I would write one sentence per...
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Dave's Not Here Man
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Dave's unplugging for a while, just to see how it feels.
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Dave's Not Here Man
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Dave's unplugging for a while, just to see how it feels.
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Snow: Good For Shit
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If you step in dog poop in the yard (while looking for dog poop in the yard) then old slushy snow piles are a great way to clean your shoes ...
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Snow: Good For Shit
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If you step in dog poop in the yard (while looking for dog poop in the yard) then old slushy snow piles are a great way to clean your shoes ...
Pomegranate Justice
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This morning, my son Alex skillfully and patiently extracted all the seeds from a pomegranate and put them in a bowl to eat; he then offered...
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Pomegranate Justice
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This morning, my son Alex skillfully and patiently extracted all the seeds from a pomegranate and put them in a bowl to eat; he then offered...
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What's in the Box?
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I've been out hiking with the dog and I get home and open the fridge and I spy a box . . . a box in a bag . . . a styrofoam container-- ...
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What's in the Box?
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I've been out hiking with the dog and I get home and open the fridge and I spy a box . . . a box in a bag . . . a styrofoam container-- ...
Slick Roads and Broccoli
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I'm about to head to happy hour, so I don't have the time to capture the absolute madness of yesterday's snowstorm in New Jersey...
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Slick Roads and Broccoli
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I'm about to head to happy hour, so I don't have the time to capture the absolute madness of yesterday's snowstorm in New Jersey...
Snow!
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I tried dropping some hints with the secretaries in the main office but there were obviously no administrators in earshot-- and I also tried...
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Snow!
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I tried dropping some hints with the secretaries in the main office but there were obviously no administrators in earshot-- and I also tried...
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When Do I Get to Buy a Dune-Buggy?
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This has been the year of spending money on expensive, sober-minded stuff: a sick dog, braces and a palate expander, a washer/dryer, and now...
When Do I Get to Buy a Dune-Buggy?
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This has been the year of spending money on expensive, sober-minded stuff: a sick dog, braces and a palate expander, a washer/dryer, and now...
Fantasy Football Explained (Using Status and Contract)
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I love arming my students with the terms "status" and "contract" and then encouraging them apply these terms to whatever...
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Fantasy Football Explained (Using Status and Contract)
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I love arming my students with the terms "status" and "contract" and then encouraging them apply these terms to whatever...
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Let's Get Naked (Statistically Speaking)
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Charles Wheeler likes to get naked . . . he's the author of Naked Economics , which I highly recommend, and I also enjoyed Naked Statis...
Let's Get Naked (Statistically Speaking)
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Charles Wheeler likes to get naked . . . he's the author of Naked Economics , which I highly recommend, and I also enjoyed Naked Statis...
I Rate This Film 0.0
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Friday night, my family sat down together and watched Animal House . . . first time for my kids (they are 13 and 14 years old) and I haven...
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I Rate This Film 0.0
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Friday night, my family sat down together and watched Animal House . . . first time for my kids (they are 13 and 14 years old) and I haven...
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Living on the Meniscus
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The final ingredient in my wife's cup of coffee is a healthy dollop of danger . . . while I like to keep my hot beverages well below the...
Living on the Meniscus
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The final ingredient in my wife's cup of coffee is a healthy dollop of danger . . . while I like to keep my hot beverages well below the...
Just When You Thought it Was Safe
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I'm pleased to say-- though many of the ladies in the English department might not agree-- that the incessant high school soccer discuss...
Just When You Thought it Was Safe
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I'm pleased to say-- though many of the ladies in the English department might not agree-- that the incessant high school soccer discuss...
Indolence Abetted by Dog
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There is no better nap than when your dog is just outside your room, sleeping at the head of the stairs, guarding your indolence against all...
Indolence Abetted by Dog
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There is no better nap than when your dog is just outside your room, sleeping at the head of the stairs, guarding your indolence against all...
Happy G:TBday!
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In honor of fifteen years of taking life less seriously over at Gheorghe: The Blog, my buddy Whitney got real serious about being less serio...
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Happy G:TBday!
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In honor of fifteen years of taking life less seriously over at Gheorghe: The Blog, my buddy Whitney got real serious about being less serio...
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Dave Throws His Vote Away
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In honor of yesterday's post, I voted for Madelyn Hoffman today . . . go Green Party!
Dave Throws His Vote Away
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In honor of yesterday's post, I voted for Madelyn Hoffman today . . . go Green Party!
Happy Midterm Elections!
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Every America of voting age should be required to listen to the new episode of Freakonomics: America's Hidden Duopoly which gives some ...
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Happy Midterm Elections!
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Every America of voting age should be required to listen to the new episode of Freakonomics: America's Hidden Duopoly which give...
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Boom Goes the Book
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Drea...
Boom Goes the Book
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Drea...
Sentence Postponed Due to Hirsuteness
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Catherine and I are off to my cousin Keith's wedding, so though I have a lot of rambling run-on sentence type thoughts they have been su...
Sentence Postponed Due to Hirsuteness
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Catherine and I are off to my cousin Keith's wedding, so though I have a lot of rambling run-on sentence type thoughts they have been su...
Dave Summons a Hackerlike Miracle
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My wife just told me fantastic news: the school computer system erased all the teacher conferences she scheduled for our son Ian and now the...
Dave Summons a Hackerlike Miracle
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My wife just told me fantastic news: the school computer system erased all the teacher conferences she scheduled for our son Ian and now the...
Dave Stubs His Toe on an Invisible Box
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My right quad is sore but I'm getting better and better with each attempt (although I'm not nearly good enough yet to post) but some...
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Dave Stubs His Toe on an Invisible Box
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My right quad is sore but I'm getting better and better with each attempt (although I'm not nearly good enough yet to post) but...
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Fred Armisen is the Democratic Inversion of Donald Trump
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The Undiscovered podcast episode "Party Lines" is the best piece of non-partisan political commentary I've heard in a long t...
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Halloween is a Test
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I have nothing creative in the tank, as I'm using all my willpower to not eat the Reeses peanut butter cups in the closet.
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Will Lab-grown Chicken Still Be Slimy?
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Handling raw chicken is almost gross enough to make me become a vegetarian (but not quite).
The Cheez-it Chompspiracy
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I'm not a big fan of orange foods (aside from oranges, which I love) and while I'll occasionally munch on a carrot or sample a sweet...
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Republicans: Mad as Hell (Just The Way They Like It)
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The Weeds provided a great explanation for the growing political polarization in our whacked-out nation with their episode "Republica...
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Thus Endeth the Week
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Parent/teacher conferences, a couple of away games, a puking player on the bur ride to South Amboy, forgotten socks by my son at South Amboy...
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Female Hillbilly Escapes the Heartland
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Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth is a more poetic, even harder luck v...
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A+ in Chest Hair
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Yesterday we had a half day of school with the students and then had to return at 5:30 PM for the dreaded parent/teacher conference night . ...
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A+ in Stealing
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I had a bit of a Willy Loman moment yesterday when my son Ian opened his book bag and produced one of the soccer balls I instructed him to s...
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Like Father (Unlike Father)
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Alex took his sweatshirt off at the restaurant last night and I was sitting on the same side of the table as him and I said, "Look at t...
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A Good Day to Fly a Kite, Not Chip a Ball Over the Flat Four
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Wind: the hot sauce of weather (we had to play on the waterfront in Elizabeth today and while the temperature was a deceptive 47 degrees, th...
Dave is No Longer a Puppy
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I tired myself out tiring the dog out.
Less Drama, Crisper Salads
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Winter skipped the whole "coming" thing: it's here (especially in the English Office, which lost heat this week because a boil...
Nothing Like a Captive Audience (When You're Feeling Your Oats)
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My first period creative writing class is comprised of eleven girls and one boy (and me) and this one boy wrote a wonderful personification ...
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I Need to Stop Losing My Temper (But My Kids Also Need to Stop Doing Stupid Shit)
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Catherine was at a cooking class last night, so I was in charge of dinner-- but she kindly ran to Costco and bought us two rotisserie chicke...
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Hey Stacey, A Good Podcast is Better Than a Bad Book
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Jonathan Goldstein's podcast Heavyweight is by turns poignant, acerbic, mock-epic and-- of course-- funny . . . it generally has a very...
Don't Blame Me . . . I Was Doing Laundry
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I would like to point out, for the record, that I finished Christina Dalcher's dystopian feminist novel Vox in a laundromat . . . becau...
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Capsule Reviews
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I almost forgot to write a sentence today because Cat and I got so wrapped up in the Amazon series Forever . . . I can't tell you about...
It Would Be Thirteen Years
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Here's some more house stuff that you might eventually learn, but-- unfortunately-- by the time you learn it, you won't get too many...
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Thanks Weather Gods!
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The weather gods have responded to my plea for some decent fall weather, so I'm going to go outside and enjoy it; I'll write somethi...
Dave Appeals to the Weather Gods
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Hey Weather Gods . . . I know you're listening . . . I'm on a sentence-writing-strike until we get some fall weather up in here!
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Touch Typing = Coffee with Sugar and Creamer
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The unemployment rate is low right now, but there are problems with the numbers-- they don't accurately represent all the people-- and i...
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Dave Tries (Awkwardly and Unsuccessfully) to Use an Interrobang‽
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The interrobang is a very specific unit of punctuation, designed for use at the end of question that is both exclamatory and rhetorical; I...
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Was Bob a Coffee Samaritan or an Electromagnetic Rube?
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Last week, my friend and colleague Bob was driving home from work and he spotted a travel coffee mug balanced on the roof of the Xterra in ...
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Done and Gone (Are Not the Same)
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Catherine and I went our separate ways today; she took the boys and a friend to Comic Con at the Javits Center in NYC (apparently it's a...
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From Mitvah to Melee
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Today, we went from a lovely bar mitzvah-- featuring marvelous speeches from both the man of honor (Martin) and his dad (Adrian's speech...
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College, Expensive and Absurd (and great fodder for a novel)
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Take a second rate college with an inane administration, add a number of irate and eccentric teachers of the arts, add curricular and campus...
Peanuts Solves Your Existential Woes
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I was nervous all day today because (as rumor had it) we were facing the best middle school team on our schedule-- Metuchen-- and my cr...
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Dave Retires From Parent Activism
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My wife and kids were very proud of me for all my parent activism (unlike Marls and Zman-- see yesterday's comments) and I must say that...
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The End of Homework? Not Quite . . . But It's a Start
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Here is the next (and hopefully final) chapter in the saga of the anti-homework-crusade: today, Alex's teacher made some concessions on ...
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Surreal Kitchen Accessory in the Guise of a Band Cheers Up a Soggy Version of Dave
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I was sitting outside at Pino's-- beer-soaked and annoyed, because I put my pint of Guiness down on a very tilted, rather slick table an...
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The Continuing Saga of the Anti-Homework Crusade
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I've now written several thousand words to administrators and my son's 9th Grade Honors English teacher about the district homework ...
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