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Mixing Music: The Perfect (and Impossible) Hobby for Home Quarantine
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I like to screw around recording weird music. Laying down the tracks is a blast. You loop a beat, play some guitar and bass, layer in some s...
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Easy Does the Hedonistic Calculus
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Walter Mosley's second Easy Rawlins novel, A Red Death , spells out the utilitarian ethics that a black man living in the 1950s had to e...
Dave Conquers Daylight Savings Time?
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This year-- instead of my usual ranting and raving -- I buckled down and prepared for Daylight Saving Time. I normally wake up at 5:40 AM,...
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The Beginning of the End?
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Tragic news on my front. On Thursday afternoon, March 5, 2020 . . . just three days after my fiftieth birthday, my fourteen-year-old son Ia...
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Caucasian Quiz
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Now that Black History month is over (although my BHM book club carries on -- I'm in the middle of Walter Mosley's The Red Deat...
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Wilmington's Lie: If You're White, Read at Your Own Risk
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Holy shit. The culmination of my Black History Month Book Club (with one member) is a wild one. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of ...
The Gang Storms Bolton Valley
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Last weekend, I received a most excellent early birthday present: old friends and shitloads of snow. Neil, John, Mose and I ventured up to...
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Dave Turns Fifty, Theodore Geisel Would Turn 116 (If He Wasn't Long Dead)
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The Doctor and me, we share the same date-- Inevitably, we'll share the same fate. As alive as he was, all the places he went, ...
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The Lamest Advice Ever
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I am loath to admit that my dental hygienist was right. Years and years ago, she told me I should invest in an electric toothbrush. A Sonica...
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Schrödinger's Sock: A Quantum Laundry Room Game for the Whole Family
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I'm sure you've been in this situation: there's a sock on the laundry-room floor and there are two possibilities: 1) The sock ...
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Holy Triple Miracle Thursday!
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Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I am involved in miraculous incidents on a frequent basis. Whether or not I cause thes...
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A Valentine's Adventure, Athletic Odds and Ends (plus Poop Tire Epic)
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I was really looking forward to doing some athletics on this three day weekend. Indoor soccer on Sunday, indoor tennis on Monday, and then t...
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Marriage Story + American Factory = Uncut Gems
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Here are two Oscar-nominated (and depressing) movies about how messy and expensive it is to do stuff in America: Marriage Story American...
Hey Trump! Huge Bigly News!Solar Is Winning! The Bums Won!
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You probably haven't heard the hugely great news, the most important incredible wonderful bigly news for our planet. In fact, if our Toa...
Dave's Literary Celebration of BHM Continues
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In Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress , Easy Rawlins inhabits the same sun-drenched and seedy Los Angeles as his predecessor-- the kn...
Dave's Surefire Recipe For Getting Sick
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Here's my recipe for getting sick. I've perfected it over the years. You'd think by this age, I'd know better, but I just di...
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Kickin' Off BHM with a Classic (by a white lady)
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To kick off Black History Month, I read Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is a melodrama, and...
I've Had It With These Motherf@3king Snakes in This Motherf$5king Time War
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Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's short sci-fi novel This is How You Lose the Time War is the opposite of Shane Carruth's independ...
Some Good Listening
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I while away a lot of time listening to B+ podcasts-- every episode of The Indicator and Planet Money and Reply All and Freakonomics -- a...
Screw You 47.2
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To continue with the weekly theme of aging and decay, you might want to listen to the newest episode of The Indicator. It's called &qu...
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Dave vs. The Looming Specter of his Mortality
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I was in a lousy mood last week. January really dragged-- lots of gray and damp weather. No joyful snowfall. The park is a muddy goose-shit ...
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