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In the middle of the night, nothing tastes better than a glass of cold tap water.

I know you've all been waiting with bated breath, and it's finally finished . . . Dave's Top Two Movie Lines of 2008 (one of t...

Two recommendations with parallels: Slumdog Millionaire is like City of God , but in Mumbai instead of Rio de Janeiro-- I give it sixteen m...

Three firsts yesterday: 1) Alex's first brazen and convincing lie . . . it was six A.M. and we were building the new Lego table and Ale...

Catherine decided to make chicken scarpariello for our giant Christmas Eve party-- it's chicken and sausage, with bell peppers, sweet an...

I've been telling this story to whoever will listen: a teacher who will remain nameless was walking around his class with a spur on his...

Just finished reading Thomas Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-- and How It Can Renew America ...

I started to type "can you get HDTV with rabbit ears" into Google, but when I got as far as "can you get," Google listed...

The best thing George Bush has ever done, and I mean ever , is dodge those shoes-- but if I threw them, one of them would have found its tar...

A student with good taste in television ( The Office , Madmen, Curb Your Enthusiasm ) convinced me to watch The Big Bang Theory ; I turned ...

It started funny but by the middle I just didn't get it, and so-- despite glowing reviews by James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene...

1080p or not 1080p, that is the question . . . and though it is far less profound than Hamlet's meditation on self-slaughter (but who wo...

So my friend took this screwed up cake that his girlfriend was going to toss in the trash, and he decided to decorate it with whatever candy...

Here's an example of the nerdy humor in my Shakespeare class-- and to get an idea of the kind of kids in this class, imagine this: once...

I'll bet there's a negative correlation between time spent playing with Legos and "handiness"-- as a kid, I loved playing ...

Two animal encounters: over the weekend: 1) while I was running along the Raritan, I saw a blue heron acting in a deranged manner, listing f...

Last night I learned that the best free thing ever (besides sex, which is never really free , but that's another sentence) is the annual...

While Catherine was away on her fifth grade camping trip last week, I felt like a Hindu or a Muslim or a Jew-- no Christmas anxiety; the k...

We sold our TV last night-- and the kids were pretty good about it, considering they were right in the middle of "The Black Cauldron...

Tropic Thunder is best viewed without knowing the cast: it took me half the movie to recognize a couple of the actors (and, despite Ben Stil...