Sentence of Dave

Hey kids, hipsters, dudes, etcetera, I've been dosing on the loopy speculations and  discursive postulations of Lester Bangs-- the colle...

Bad Traffic , the new crime novel by Simon Lewis, is supposedly the only UK book ever to receive a cover blurb by Elmore Leonard-- who call...

After reading this, you'll either have the urge to call DYFUS or the Patent Office: the other night we made the mistake of allowing our ...

You know you're living the high life when you buy the shredded cheese instead of grating it yourself.

I just read a conspiracy theory that claims that George Bush Jr. was actually a Manchurian Candidate type patsy placed in office by the DEMO...

It was Sunday afternoon, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why my three-year-old son kept asking, "What about the movin...

The word on the street is accurate about I Am Legend-- it's scary and apocalyptic, but the ending is abrupt and kind of lame-- but (spo...

One of the marks of a good book is how stupid it makes you feel, and The Blind Side: Evolution of A Game ( by Michael Lewis, who also writ...

It was freezing in my house, and so I asked my four year old son if he was cold and suggested he put some socks on-- but I guess my job as a...

A first over the weekend, we made a trip to the Museum of Natural History without our kid-carrying backpacks-- Alex and Ian had to pull the...

Finished the new Malcolm Gladwell book the other day-- and apparently, if someone asks you what you're reading and you reply in an enth...

While I was making coffee Monday morning, I remembered the classic bit in Airplane! when Jim surprises his wife because he asks for a secon...

There are brief moments in Redbelt where the movie is so Mamet it might be a parody of Mamet-- does he have to direct his actors to speak i...

Since my students read two essays that were essentially about lying, I though it appropriate that I fabricate a quotation in their writing p...

Just as when Proust's narrator (barely a narrator) eats the madeleine cake in Rembrance of Things Past, and it starts him down memory la...

Alex, Ian and I were rocking out to Neil Young's "Down by the River" in the car, until the lyrics got too disturbing and Alex...

I'm starting to worry that I'll write about the same thing I've written about in a previous sentence; I've produced more co...

I've been blogging long enough that the content of my sentences have exceeded the span my memory, and I'm worried I might repeat mys...

Although there was much naysaying and the intelligence of my source was doubted, it turned out that my information was good-- when I plugged...

I've been playing basketball on Sunday mornings at seven AM (it's the interim between outdoor and indoor soccer) and, while I waite...