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My family just binge-watched Stranger Things,  a deft and super-compelling derivative mash-up that perfectly channels so many great shows an...

I thought once we left the Southwest, I would quit reading The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest   but none o...

It looks like I'm going to have to do this whole thing all over again, in the correct order-- which is highly appropriate for the conten...

 I was very excited a few weeks ago when I got to listen to The Avalanches new album Wildflower  . . . I clearly remember the day I heard ...

When I get motivated to do crappy chores, I usually do two in a row, and the chores I juxtaposed on Monday morning were especially gross-- s...

I'm back and so is The Test . . . this episode mainly focuses on robots-- both televised and cinematic-- but there is also some discuss...

The people that comprise ISIS want money and sex slaves (who are forced to use birth control so they don't get pregnant) and beheadings ...

In a feature that should recur more often than it will probably will, here's a dude that should be on the high school history curriculum...

After five hours of best of three play, my son Ian and I won the first annual Sea Isle City Cornhole Classic . . . we only dropped one game ...

My eleven year old son Ian and I are riding an obnoxious two day undefeated cornhole streak, and last night-- after much sangria-- my father...

A couple of weird things I've been thinking about, so you can ponder them too: 1) we now live in an age of negative interest in the gl...

I'm now in summer beach mode-- which means reading whatever the fuck I want-- and I've just polished off back-to-back novels that di...

After three weeks in the Southwest, and a fair bit of pertinent reading (four Tony Hillerman novels: The Wailing Wind, Listening Woman, Thie...

It's trite and cliche, but after a month in the Southwest, followed by an immediate family vacation at the Jersey Shore, I am certain th...

I normally waste my presidential vote on The Green Party-- because biodiversity is our planet's only interesting asset . . . and I think...

Our cross-country trip spanned 6440 miles-- kudos to the minivan-- and we spent over three weeks together, often in the car (22 days, to be ...

Yesterday we drove the final leg of our thirty hour trip home, Columbus, Ohio to New Jersey, and we were all pretty close to losing our mind...

I think all the political podcasts and talk radio we've been listening to on the ride is starting to weigh on me-- yesterday we heard Ru...

I will try to eventually write a wrap-up of our cross country trip, but we were so busy that I got behind, so I'll have to squeeze Mesa ...

I should probably keep these excellent epiphanies to myself, but for the good of all mankind, I am releasing them to the internet: 1) when...