Sentence of Dave

When I was in high school, I had this absurd idea about making a guitar effects pedal that runs the electrical signal through water-- or so...

If you had your druthers (and you were a white man) where would would you choose to hang out on a Friday evening in the late 18th century? ...

The Wuhan coronavirus is making its way out of China and spreading throughout the world.  And my friends aren't helping matters. Last ni...

Lately, I've been reading more  spy novels  than usual . . . like David Mamet, I'm a big fan of well-executed genre fiction , but I ...

Yesterday while I was driving to pick my son from track practice, my wife called me. I'm not very good on the phone when I'm no...

Yesterday, I learned that Google Drive has a "scan" feature, and that you can scan a document and convert it to editable text in a...

I'd like to humbly recommend a few podcasts. I understand-- because of the first podcast that I am recommending-- that there is an oppor...

There was a time when my wife and I would NEVER bring the kids shopping. We were always flabbergasted when we'd see a family of five in ...

The other night I fell fast asleep before 9 PM. I woke to the sound of fisticuffs in the hall bathroom. Apparently, Alex was trimming his to...

I thought Douglas Preston's  The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story  was going to be the usual archaeological/adventure/travel st...

I think I might make this a recurring bit. I don't keep up with new music, nor do I want to. I don't need another chore. I can bar...

Once upon a time in America, horror and war movies often implemented the  Black Dude Dies First  trope. But times have changed, for the bett...

At Midori -- the sushi place in town-- they give you green tea in a squat, thick-walled cup. When I picked it up to take a sip, I b...

The rest of our trip to Staunton was a bit more relaxing than the first two days.  The day after our epic hike up Elliots Knob it rained, so...

You've probably heard about  Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece "The Comedian."  If you haven't, here's the...

Another year, another book list . . . I read forty books in 2019-- a number which seems about average-- and for the most part, I kept it e...