Sentence of Dave

My lovely, charming, beautiful and-- most importantly-- sane and logical wife turns 40 today . . . and, after watching the new Errol Morris...

Comic Patrice O'Neal died today at age 41 and I will miss him . . . but at least the memory of this altercation will be preserved forev...

Though it is satire, this Onion article is so dead-on it deserves a Pulitzer (thanks Jen for passing it along . . . it certainly captures t...

I finished the new Stephen King novel-- all 849 pages-- in less than a week, and while at the start I thought it was going to be about how ...

One person's tradition is another person's chore (we always string Christmas lights around every tree on the property, it's a t...

Stephen King dismisses the "grandfather paradox" and other meta-logical nonsense (such as the craziness developed in the great bu...

Last Saturday morning-- like clockwork-- the cold weather worked its black magic on the driver-side door of my Jeep , and so once again-- if...

There are four major reasons why Thanksgiving is the best holiday: 1) no gift-giving 2) no compulsory decorating 3) cranberry sauce 4) footb...

My DVD drive was jammed shut at work on Monday, and so I tried to get it open by double clicking "eject" on the computer, but that...

At LA Fitness, in order to procure a basketball from the front desk, you must provide some collateral-- I usually give them my keys-- but ...

While The Greatest Victory in my Life is the fact that I won a Cake Decorating Contest . . . because never in my wildest dreams did I ever ...

My six year old son Ian has recently taken up a new habit-- he does it when he is being chased and needs to accelerate in order to escape ...

When I was a teenager, pimples were the bane of my existence-- high school was already socially taxing enough, without having to face the d...

During season two of Bored to Death , when Jonathan gets involved in an "open relationship" with Stella and her old boyfriend, W...

My son Alex's homework Monday night was to look at the moon and then both describe and sketch what he saw, but we couldn't see the m...

The ostensible setting of Aravind Adiga's new novel Last Man in Tower is Mumbai, but the real setting is the ensemble cast of characte...

We returned home from Disney on Saturday to find that something was wrong with our furnace (or to be precise, I should say our boiler . . ....

I went on all the rides at Disney last week, and this is a big deal for me, as even a merry-go-round can give me motion sickness, but I surv...

Once in a while, regular people come up with fantastic ideas -- ideas as brilliant and world-changing as Einstein's Theory of Special Re...

Although I highly recommend The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World -- for the maps and the descriptions of rides, attractions, food, a...