Sentence of Dave

The other morning, while I was filling my water bottle at the water fountain, a little sophomore boy walked past, but then I saw his head tu...

It's hard to look like a bad ass when you're eating a frozen Go-Gurt, especially because it means you took the time to think ahead-...

Finally watched Quentin Tarantino's B Movie parody/homage Deathproof : I can't say that I loved it, although Kurt Russell is entert...

For several years, my friend Whitney and I have been pursuing the great white whale of novelty songs, an epic entirely composed of lyrics f...

So yesterday I ran a few miles before soccer practice started, and then I ran quite a bit at practice-- I do all the sprints and running to ...

The vocabulary of the recession is creeping into the students' lexicon: last week in my senior writing class, a girl complained that she...

In this rather surreal picture Alex drew of our family (sans himself) he portrayed his younger brother Ian as a many armed cyclops, which ma...

Never underestimate the Super Powers that your children attribute to you: I was describing my abortive trip to the East Brunswick Library to...

Some members of my family have remarked that my policy on allowable television viewing is similar to that of a communist dictator's stin...

Absence does make the heart grow fonder: you'd never suspect, seeing our happy family eat Chinese food, that just days before we were cl...

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small-- and according to Steve Silberman in his article in this month's Wired magazi...

Something overheard in New Brunswick the other night: "we were so shit-housed, I can't believe we built the entire gazebo . . . an...

I was sternly reprimanded by a customer at the Amish Market last Saturday, and I probably deserved it . . . but you would have done the sam...

Neill Blomkamp's new movie District 9 should be a TV show: like the new Battlestar Galactica , the movie uses sci-fi to explore politi...

Another reason not to pay 100 bucks for a Broadway show: these performers are so polished it's not really live , there's little to ...

So I started this great book by Nick Reding, Methland: the Death and Life of an American Small Town , right? and it was so gripping that I w...

Alex transmogrified the Sister Sledge chorus "We are family" into a ditty about the long-pig . . . "Eat your family."

If the Tom Arnold story isn't for you, then perhaps you'd prefer his sister Lori's rise and fall . . . I just learned about her ...

For two weeks at Sea Isle City, we watched the same odd scene enacted over and over in front of the life guard stand: the same burly blond ...

After a long day of running, skim-boarding, and beach soccer, I made the mistake of complaining about my bad ankle in front of my wife; she...