Sentence of Dave

Recently, I advised my readers that it is easier to invite everyone , but then, while on vacation at the beach, I neglected to follow this ...

I've just walked out of the ocean with my son Ian, and I'm looking up the beach to where my other son Alex is sitting, wrapped in a...

There is magnificent irony in searching for the best parking spot at the gym.

I locked myself out last week because I reminded my mother-in-law to be more vigilant about locking the side door that leads to her apartmen...

So I walk into LA Fitness and the mousy girl working the desk-- if she had handles I could have dead-lifted her-- tells me I can't wo...

Avatar is a Disney movie for adults: thematically simple, visually stunning, full of melodramatic cheesy music which nearly ruins the entir...

Sunday night we went to see LeCompt, the best bar band in the universe, at the Springfield Inn, the best dive bar in the universe (cash onl...

While I was in the midst of one of my typical anti-Halloween diatribes, my wife sided with the boys and reminded me that I liked trick-or-tr...

Jacques Audiard's movie A Prophet makes you work as hard as the Malik-- the Arab the protagonist-- who is thrown in jail at the start o...

If you're feeling really happy . . . too happy for your own good, then you might want to read the graphic novel Waltz with Bashir: A Leb...

I must remember to wake up early . . . I must remember to wake up early . . . because if I don't . . . if I get up when everyone else ge...

Now that there are so many myriad ways to communicate with fellow humans, you need to know which method each person prefers-- some people on...

Several members of my family have a long history of calling and leaving messages on our answering machine that contain no specific informati...

My metamorphosis is complete, I am an Apple convert . . . read my product review of the new iGod Touched over at Gheorghe: The Blog . . . ...

During a round of golf, Larry's agent Jeff Greene angrily counsels Larry's dopey cousin on how much information you should divulge ...

Larry David did an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" about the awkwardness of the invitation: Larry can't mention that he...

I took the kids to the 11:05 matinee the other day and it cost twenty seven dollars, which I thought was outrageous, until they handed me a ...

I found an excellent essay about world class athletes at kottke.org and I wrote a response over at G:TB . . . if you have time to read se...

We went camping with old friends in Vermont last weekend and it was like driving to Fall . . . it was COLD at night (low forties) so we ...

I don't do charity work for the homeless or volunteer at the local food pantry, but I do consider this blog and the ideas that I give th...