Sentence of Dave

If you are annoyed that I my last few posts have been reviews of movies and books and not the usual displays of my stupidity, I am sorry, b...

Tarsem Singh's visually rich movie The Fall is The Princess Bride on acid . . . on acid, steroids, meta-amphetamines, crack, psilocybi...

Sometimes you need to step back and think about what things look like from the outside; last week my son Alex woke up with a mission: to b...

Science fiction writer William Gibson once said, "The future is already here-- it's just unevenly distributed," and the chara...

Get Him to the Greek is the first movie I watched on my new Blu-Ray player, and it's worth watching the first half in beautiful Blu-Ray...

I give my kid-friendly thumbs up to both Ponyo and Secret of Kells-- they are animated in the old-school style and contain no musical numbe...

 One of my students confessed to having killed a praying mantis when she was young-- and she referred to this bug-slaughter as "commit...

A student told me this joke last week:  "How many emo kids does it take to screw in a light bulb? Who cares, let them cry in the dark,&...

My six year old son Alex called me "Mave" the other day-- Mave is a girl in his class that also played on our soccer team-- and th...

Franco Moretti's book Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History takes a novel approach to literary criticism: inste...

This Diane Ravitch lecture is rather long and dry (like Diane Ravitch's excellent and comprehensive book, The Life and Death of the Grea...

I recently reported how my fanged son (he lost his two front teeth) gets distracted any time he sees a reflective surface because he is fas...

The characters in Clint Eastwood's film Gran Torino are unrealistic caricatures-- Walt's grand-kids are overly obnoxious, his chil...

Ian had a couple of night-time peeing accidents just before our trip to Washington D.C.-- he is a very sound sleeper-- and we were worried...

I skimmed this insane article and it seems that Play Doh really is non-toxic and edible (although there is a petroleum based lubricant in i...

As a teacher, you hope that you are forewarned certain things about your students, or else incidents like this and this are going to happ...

Apparently, biology teachers are showing my animated video "Amoeba Love" in class, thinking it's a cute way to illustrate bina...

If you are interested in scientific studies on clairvoyance and a stunning revelation on the true origins of the "genius" Daryl B...

My adult league soccer team remained undefeated after a hard fought 1-1 tie on last Monday night, and we convinced ourselves that we were im...

My six year old son Alex recently lost his two front teeth and while this has caused him no problems at meal-time (he can still eat an apple...