Sentence of Dave

In his new movie, Inglourious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino extends the Indiana Jones quip in The Last Crusade (Nazis . . . I hate these g...

While we were on the beach, Catherine gave me the rest of her buffalo chicken sandwich and I ate it while standing in the ocean; I highly r...

Part six : so I'm telling my wife about all the new-found knowledge I've learned while reading Born to Run , and I'm especially...

Alex swam the width of the pool a few days ago in the four foot section (which is over his head) and he used the dog paddle to breathe and t...

Part five: Born to Run espouses a less is more approach to running footwear, and makes some well researched and valid claims that bulky ex...

Example number four: after I read The Omnivore's Dilemma, I had a meltdown about all the products we were using with corn 2 in them; I...

Sorry to break the flow of the serial story, but here's the quick report on the Lecompt Show at the Springfield Inn: 1) we got to hang...

Part three: But I have a wife, and she has to live with me after I read a new book.

Part Two: Sometimes when I read a book, I get really excited and forget there was ever a time before I had read that book, and want to impl...

Part one: I need to work on how I phrase things.

Yesterday, a particularly tenacious Herring gull, attempting to impress the coaches and secure a place on the 65 man roster, blocked a baref...

My son Ian, who loves the water and has a different swimming stroke for every animal (the caterpillar, the whale, the shark, the squid) ofte...

Whenever you have a party to get rid of excess beer in your fridge, you end up with more than when you started.

Next summer, in order for Catherine and I to have some peace and quiet, and in order for the boys to have the activities and socialization t...

I needed to take a break from the sardonic wit of Infinite Jest , lest I hang myself like the author did last year, and so I started (and fi...

62% of the way through Infinite Jest , which is set in the near future, when each year has its own corporate sponsor (Year of the Depend Und...

When you want to play darts, the standard operating procedure at The Corner Tavern is to trade your driver's license for them-- and hope...

I debuted as a music producer this weekend, and although I wanted to channel the genius of Paul Martin or Brian Eno, or at least wave a gun ...

I had a very interesting dream the other night: I was in a car with some college friends and we got lost near the Philly Zoo and then got i...

I know it's a remnant of the agrarian calendar and it fuels tourism, but financially speaking, school recess should be in the winter, no...