Sentence of Dave

This is a very subjective review, but the new Neon Indian album "Psychic Chasms" seems to be tailored exactly for my brain-- it&#...

More Malcolm Gladwell tidbits from What the Dog Saw : in most cities, five percent of the cars produce 55% of the carbon monoxide pollution...

According to a Malcolm Gladwell in his new anthology What the Dog Saw (and also according to the cities of Denver and St. Louis) it is easi...

I hate our new coffeemaker, though it looks much nicer than our old coffee maker-- which was a cheap piece of junk, and it had no built -in ...

Good thing there were witnesses: after eating most of my apple last Friday, I announced to Stacy and Rachel (that's right, go ahead and...

If you want to watch something weird and artsy, with shades of Welcome to the Dollhouse (a world where children are more adult than the adu...

I know it's crass, but sometimes when I'm about to complain about something trivial, I think to myself: what do you have to complai...

You know it's going to be a good history book when you read a sentence like this:  "Among the able seamen, the initial going rate w...

In the Loop is a political satire with enough profanity rival David Mamet's Glengarry Glenross and enough droll comedy to rival the ori...

I was rushing to finish "making water" because the bell had rung and I needed to get to class, and in my rush, I somehow flung my...

Click here for the news story about what I witnessed yesterday-- see the sentence below-- the guy who I watched jump off the edge of the b...

While driving home from Monroe yesterday after a Craigslist purchase of a desk for Alex (which filled the back of my Jeep because there was ...

We have the screen saver on our new iMac hooked into iPhoto, so it shows random pictures throughout the day, which is cool, except when it s...

Alex had the misfortune of having two accidents at school in one day: 1) he misjudged the consistency of his flatulence 2) he soaked himself...

Something I am proud of: in twenty two years of driving, I have never run out of gas (I mention this because my wife told me a teacher at h...

In Benjamin Phelan's essay "How We Evolve" (another from the collection The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2009 )...

At some point during every successful rock band's existence, they underwent a radical change, a phase change, and it must have been wild...

If you miss old trippy Ween, check out Animal Collective's album Merriweather Post Pavilion-- it sounds like the album cover (above).

I feel sorry for businessmen because there's no way they can live up to the standards George Clooney sets for them: in the looks, cool...

Intelligence is immunity, stupidity a contagion.