Sentence of Dave

I just finished my 46th book of 2017 this afternoon and it's a fitting one for the end of the year; Kids These Days: Human Capital and t...

The end of winter break is rearing its ugly head; to prepare, I woke up early this morning, did some school work, went to the gym, recorded ...

When my schedule is unobstructed by work, sports, and chores-- no matter how late I've slept or how many hours of sleep I had the night ...

Apparently, my head is too big for me to the leave the country . . . or that's what the lady at the passport office told me: accordi...

I've frequently opined upon science-fiction up in this house, and my usual point is this: to qualify as real science-fiction, the setti...

On Christmas Eve, my wife was preparing some spicy nuts for the big party when the doorbell rang; it was our neighbor Ira with a present for...

Merry Christmas, to all those participating in the materialist-consumptionist complex.

No time to write-- we're having forty people over tonight and I have a chore list to accomplish . . . I wouldn't be so pressed for t...

My kids and I watched the new Star Wars movie Thursday afternoon, and it's tolerable-- the fight scenes are decent, there's a fun ch...

You've probably heard that acclaimed short-story writer George Saunders won the Man Booker prize for his first novel, Lincoln in the Bar...

We got into a discussion the other day somewhere in the comments on Gheorghe:TheBlog about the worst songs on the best albums, and this topi...

I wish I could be as tight-lipped about my business as Tom Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance  . . . but part of the fun of taking...

When you pick up the skis, make sure you also pick up the boots.

This Monday morning-- the darkest of all Monday mornings, the Monday morning closest to the winter solstice, the Monday morning when yo...

So apparently there are two types of people: 1) people who fill their gas tank as soon as it gets a bit low; 2) people who drive around...

Today marked the end of an era, as we packed all the Legos in the basement into two giant green plastic containers and put them in the crawl...

I did my work over at Gheorghe: the Blog today: my seven favorite books I read this year.

Yesterday, in a free moment before my second period class entered the room, I did some stretching (you should properly loosen up your muscle...

I just finished The Moonstone  by Wilkie Collins and though it was published in 1868 and the story is told by an extensive epistolary spiral...

The perfunctory nature of this blog limits me from doing any real research or deep thinking about the random crap I post, so while I'm...