Sentence of Dave

I was showing The Manchurian Candidate  to my senior Composition class and I promised them a scene where Frank Sinatra does karate, and at s...

Here is the Star Ledger article about the car chase that started on our street; apparently a local dude was caught with drugs that he was i...

The Stone Pony Summer Stage is a great place to see a concert: there's a beach breeze, it's not too loud, the shows begin early (doo...

Imagine seeing this vivid tableau soon after your son lost a tooth; you walk into the bathroom, and there's blood spattered on the white...

Yesterday afternoon, a bit after six PM, Ian and Catherine heard a loud bang on our front lawn-- they were in the kitchen-- and so they ran ...

The final message of Michael Tennesen's book The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man is that humans are pr...

I'm not going to say this out loud, because summer vacation has just started-- which is awesome-- but the house does get disastrously me...

For the past few years, I've been correcting certain people over the grammatically correct usage of lie/lay . . . not all people, just ...

When my wife watches Christiano Ronaldo play, she always makes a comment about what a beautiful man he is, and I think that's fine; on t...

The boys and I were quite proud of our short film A Day Without Mom , which we presented to Catherine on Mother's Day . . . but that&#...

Fans of Sentence of Dave  know exactly how I feel about dreams (they are stupid and I don't want to hear about them, even if I was in t...

I've been listening to Dan Carlin's political podcast Common Sense   and while each show is a detailed and logical look at a specifi...

For the most part Jurassic World  operates as billed: plenty of dinosaurs, plenty of cheese, and plenty of eye-candy (i.e. Bryce Dallas H...

I turned from getting some cash at the Wells Fargo ATM and saw something wonderful stomp down the avenue: a woman in a denim skirt with an i...

After a series of barely tolerable songs about obtuse topics (time travel, the Olympic theme for snowboarders, psychedelia in the desert, ...

I am reading two books right now, and it's like riding a mental rollercoaster; one is called How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About Wh...

Martin Seligman, who wrote Learned Optimism , asserts that it is mentally healthier to sublimate rather than ruminate-- if you suffer a setb...

Governor Christie makes some interesting claims in this video, including the opinion that teachers are "getting paid a full time ...

My friend and colleague Kevin recently exhibited what I believe is a new mental disorder-- and not only did I identify this disorder, but I ...

Fellow English Instructor Kristyna was Appalled at the Lack of Capitalization in her Students' Essays -- her Students Claimed that unlik...