Sentence of Dave

Sometimes when I wake up there is a white hair jutting from one of my sideburns, directly perpendicular to my head, and obviously my body la...

David Brooks taught me why I write this blog: thumos .

In his new book The Social Animal , David Brooks cites a psychology experiment I'd like to replicate: in a college psychology class, the...

Just about everyone has the plot of a novel brewing in their head, and a few weeks ago a friend told me his idea: it involved a Jurassic Par...

David Brooks' new best-selling overview of cognitive science, The Social Animal: The Hidden Source of Love, Character, and Achievement ,...

It's been a long time since I've seen a groundhog do anything cheeky (and it still wasn't nearly as cheeky as this ) but the dr...

Does an eighteen wheeler carrying a load of giant rocks really need to be any more intimidating than it already is? . . . I guess the parti...

Sometimes There's A Man by The Density The Almighty Yojo has whipped up another collage of sound for your listening enjoyment--...

The Machinist is visual and visceral-- Christian Bale loses so much weight that he literally looks like one of the machines in the shop wh...

As you get older, your brain has a harder time recalling things, but your body remembers every injury crystal clear.

True Blood is Buffy with boobs.

I'm sure I would have appreciated JCVD more if I had seen more Jean-Claude Van Damme movies-- I think the only one I ever watched in it...

So during my arduous summer project-- tearing down the ivy encrusted rotting fence in our backyard and replacing it with a similar but new n...

So I'm walking across the parking lot of our condo in Chatham and a lady riding by in a BMW stops her car and says to me (in her Boston ...

If you want to know how to survive a tritium leak, and/or you like bugs, then you should check out my post at G:TB.

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad, is less about the music and more a...

I rarely recount my dreams here because if I did, I'd be labelled a hypocrite (and because I almost never remember them) but bear with ...

I am really, really good at swatting flies-- definitely way above average (or so I believe, but this could be an example of the Lake Wobegon...

If you love America, athletics, and women, then  you'll probably want to check this out.

So at the condo we stay at in Chatham, we often see the same families year to year-- and my parents have befriended some of them-- so an old...