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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Sad Day (Hard to Recover After a Dart Like This)
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It's going to be a sad Outer Banks Fishing Trip this year . . . as our main man Johnny G. passed away today-- I hope he's sleeping s...
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Sexual Selection Defeats Survival of the Fittest
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My wife turned fifty today and she received a pair of lovely diamond earrings . . . and this bowerbird mating video explains why this happ...
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Dave Reads Fifty Before Cat Turns Fifty
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My wife is turning fifty tomorrow-- quite a milestone-- but more significantly, I just finished my fiftieth book of the year The Anthropoc...
Dave Might Survive
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I am the worst at being sick-- but now that I'm feeling better it all seems kind of silly; the Thanksgiving break started off well-- we ...
Something For Which We Can All be Thankful
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I just finished the third book in Ben H. Winters' Last Policeman Trilogy ( Word of Trouble) and while I will offer no spoilers, I will ...
If You're Wondering Why There's a Teacher Shortage . . .
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This morning during first period I got the weird silvery aura in my right eye that happens sometimes when I look at a screen too much-- and ...
Tragedy of the Viscid Variety
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It's the end of an era, a cataclysmically tragic truncation of the most royal jelly . . . Birnn Chocolate-- our delicious town chocolate...
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Don't Think About This . . .
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If all the money spent on lobbying and campaign finance actually went toward infrastructure and scientific progress, we'd be living in a...
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Required Listening (Whether You Go Online or Not)
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Whether or not you care for Joe Rogan-- and I love the guy, I think he's smart and curious and funny and knows how to let people talk-- ...
Sometimes a Cookie Is More Than a Cookie
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After I ate lunch last Saturday, while my wife was on the phone in the basement, I had a hankering for something sweet and I remembered that...
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That's Good Stuff
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I've been grading Rutgers essays all week and procrastinating on posting my good content, but Larry David hasn't been holding back h...
Stacey = Sherlock
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It's always an exciting school day when you've got to solve a plagiarism case-- and Stacey and I did it in a period . . . she was lu...
77 Days and Counting
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Countdown City -- the second book in Ben Winters' Last Policeman trilogy-- is a little less of a procedural mystery novel and a little m...
Ten Years of Scary Stories!
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Another excellent Scary Story Contest last night, the tenth one . . . so the prompt was "Ten Years Later" . . . Stacy and I had t...
I Like to READ Stories
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Tomorrow is the 10th Annual Scary Story Contest and Stacey and I are still way over the word limit on our story and we are giving up and goi...
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Rage, rage! Against the dying of the light!
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My wife has banned me from ranting about Daylight Saving Time to her, so I'll do it here instead: New Jersey is experiencing the finest ...
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The Midnight Library
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I'm not sure if I accept the Borgesian premise of Matt Haig's novel The Midnight Library . . . but I'm also not sure if Nora the...
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New Jersey . . . It's Dense
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Soccer season is over . . . tragically . . . so Catherine and I went on an adventure today in our newly detailed (and dry) Mazda . . . lots ...
Sports (Can Be) Extra
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Yesterday we played Middlesex in the second round of the state tournament-- they are the two seed and possibly the best team in the section-...
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Valentine Street Massacre
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This morning, my son and I absolutely annihilated a couple hundred frost-bitten lanternflies that adhered to the two small maple trees in th...
I Should Have Been a Bear
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The cool weather is finally here (and wow did I eat a lot today . . . I guess my body is getting ready to hibernate).
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Ritickulous
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I thought it was cold enough to go for a walk with the dog at Rutgers Gardens this morning-- it was in the 40s-- but apparently the ticks we...
The Last Policeman
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The Last Policeman , a sci-fi/detective novel by Ben H. Winters, is the literary equivalent of David Bowie's impending-- but not too imm...
The Water Paradox
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While this Saturday was less epic than last Saturday . . . and I didn't even report on the $650 bar tab that we ran up, because I drunk...
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Very Dark Shadows
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Carol O'Connor's second book in the Mallory series, The Man Who Cast Two Shadows , dwells in darkness: the dark arts, Mallory's ...
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Whew . . .
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When I got in my car yesterday after school, I thought I saw a giant spider on the driver-side floor mat, so I stomped it to death-- pretty ...
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Gladwell Does It Again . . .
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I didn't think I was interested in the new Malcolm Gladwell book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the S...
The Good, The Bad and the Very Damp
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I can't even keep track of all this stuff-- yesterday we played Rahway in soccer and had a nice 4-3 win; my older son didn't play be...
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Wild Weekend
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Quite a weekend in our house . . . no internet Friday night (the horror!) because a wire fell and then Homecoming on Saturday-- so our boys ...
Random Soccer News (That Might Only Be Interesting to a Few People)
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Tough loss to Calvary Christian on Tuesday afternoon on a rather rough grass field . . . and in an interesting turn of events, my younger so...
Tone? Term? What? Who?
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I realized today why I've been so fried and exhausted at the end of every school day this year-- and it's not the new schedule of 84...
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Dave Uses an Umbrella?
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Yesterday afternoon my wife and I took the train from New Brunswick to Princeton Junction and then we ran like hell to catch "the Dinky...
We Are the Walking Dead
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Our soccer team has so many injuries-- bad knee, hip flexor, concussion, broken collarbone, pulled quad, etc-- that my younger son Ian got t...
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Ice Cream Epiphany
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As I was driving to work this morning, I realized the main reason the Median Voter Theorem doesn't work is because voting (like getting...
Dave Tries to Act Like a Normal Person
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Someone at work (who will remain nameless) said they were enjoying the Netflix show "Clickbait" and I watched an episode with my w...
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Godot Actually Shows Up
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Elvis Cole is a wise-cracking sleuth who has a way with the ladies and while generally speaking The Monkey's Raincoat is a typical ha...
Mini Coke Joke
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Last Friday, Kristyna went into the mini-fridge in the office to grab her Diet Coke and she started cursing-- her 12 oz. Diet Coke was missi...
The Week in Some Sort of Review
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Looking back, this was quite a week: 1) started on Sunday with an outdoor wedding -- hot but fun; 2) Catherine and I both took off Monday-- ...
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Someday I Will Be Smart(er)
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Yesterday I needed the vinegar/oil salad dressing for my salad and I had a choice between two corner cabinets in my kitchen, one way on the...
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Soccer IQ
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If you coach soccer, play soccer, or a interested in soccer tactics (but you don't want to lose your mind looking at inscrutable charts ...
Mallory's Oracle
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Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connor is a crime novel released in 1994 (to excellent reviews) and the portrayal of New York City and ...
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Some Recent Stuff
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Here's what's been going on: 1) Friday afternoon, South Rive stomped us 5-1 . . . they have a lot of fast Brazilian kids on their te...
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Hang On
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Someday this week will end and I will go to the beach and meet up with some old friends (and avoid having to help my wife with HP Garage Sal...
Dave Loves Him Some Dave
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Post-pandemic-mask-wearing teacher Dave really appreciates past Dave, who recorded various stories and anecdotes during the virtual instruc...
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Long Day (But Lots of Drama)
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Long day: extended homeroom, activity fair, away game, bus ride to Spotswood . . . but it turned out to be worth it-- though we were down fi...
The Burden of the Ring
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I was covering a class this morning-- an 84-minute class-- and I was bored and checking my phone and at 8:30 AM I got a notification from my...
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Dave! with the hangover . . .
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I definitely overserved myself yesterday while watching the Rutgers game in New Brunswick (and post-game at Clydz) but despite the brain fog...
Things are Confusing and Complicated
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I listen to Sam Harris and find him smart and logical . . . and I also listen to (some) Joe Rogan podcasts, and he seems to have a pretty lo...
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Not My Fault (For Once)
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Yesterday, we attempted to play an off day JV game (so that we could take a couple of younger varsity players-- we're low on numbers) bu...
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Dave Debuts "Creepy White Van" to an Audience of One (Human)
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If you're like me (or Linda from Bob's Burgers) you might occasionally sing original songs about whatever the hell is going on rig...
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When Canadians Like Maple Syrup
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The Hidden Brain episode "Group Think" explains why Canadians like honey and maple syrup equally . . . UNLESS they are reminded t...
Tooziest Toozday
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Tuesday is obviously the worst day of the week-- it has none of the earnest go-getter initiative of Monday, none of the hump-day inspiration...
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L'esprit d'escalier, Sixteen Years Later
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Last night at a birthday party, while we were discussing life, death, birth etcetera, my friend Alec and I figured out what to say when you ...
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Ramble On, Jack, Ramble On
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If you're looking for some sensitive and thoughtful fiction, you're probably not going to like Lee Child's first Jack Reacher no...
Rough Afternoon
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My son Alex had a rough afternoon on the pitch today-- it was hot and we were playing a very tough South River team on their insane grass fi...
Hygiene Theater Part II
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This picture of my high school's "terminal" hallway says it all about "hygiene theater"-- today at cafeteria duty, t...
Acting! In the Hygiene Theater . . .
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School is absurd right now-- we wear masks in class, but then we go to the cafeteria and 500-plus kids eat together without masks (and I sup...
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Looking for the Silver Lining in Chronology
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My older son Alex-- a senior in high school-- had a good day on Friday; he learned he was starting at left-back in the soccer game on Saturd...
The Myth of the Starving Artist
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According to North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, there's no such thing as a starving artist-- if you're foraging for grasshoppers and...
Trump, Shakespeare, Assassination, Viral Media, Abe Lincoln, Wife-Beating, Etc
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James Shapiro's book Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future is far more fun and compelling ...
Ironic and Idiotic Advice and Action Juxtaposition
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Teenage boys are often the worst about basic common sense and safety-- for example, they leave the burners on in the kitchen and go elsewher...
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The Dress: Revisited By a Morning Person
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According to this article in Slate, morning people (larks) had a much better chance of seeing that black and blue dress that took the inter...
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Be Like Jenson (Not Novak)
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I'm a compact guy, so no more following around-- I'm going to hit a compact two-handed backhand . . . and I might even chip it with ...
The Return of the Greased Watermelon!
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This morning my shoulder felt awful, my legs were sore, and I was still a little slick from the vaseline . . . which are all good things as ...
Hurricane Ida Jersey Flood Pics
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Here are some pics of the Hurrican Ida floodwaters in Highland Park and New Brunswick . . . pretty wild-- for two days, our house was rivers...
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What Does the Fox Scream?
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I thought that when our coffee maker broke, that was the perfect ending for this summer-- but it wasn't-- the perfect ending was a monst...
A Perfectly Apropos Ending for This Summer (but a bit on the nose)
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On my final day of summer (but my wife is reporting to work today) the coffee maker broke, which is the perfect end to this summer of lost a...
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