Sentence of Dave

I am loath to admit that my dental hygienist was right. Years and years ago, she told me I should invest in an electric toothbrush. A Sonica...

I'm sure you've been in this situation: there's a sock on the laundry-room floor and there are two possibilities: 1) The sock ...

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I am involved in miraculous incidents on a frequent basis. Whether or not I cause thes...

I was really looking forward to doing some athletics on this three day weekend. Indoor soccer on Sunday, indoor tennis on Monday, and then t...

Here are two Oscar-nominated (and depressing) movies about how messy and expensive it is to do stuff in America: Marriage Story American...

You probably haven't heard the hugely great news, the most important incredible wonderful bigly news for our planet. In fact, if our Toa...

In Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress , Easy Rawlins inhabits the same sun-drenched and seedy Los Angeles as his predecessor-- the kn...

Here's my recipe for getting sick. I've perfected it over the years. You'd think by this age, I'd know better, but I just di...

To kick off Black History Month, I read Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is a melodrama, and...

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's short sci-fi novel This is How You Lose the Time War  is the opposite of Shane Carruth's independ...

I while away a lot of time listening to B+ podcasts-- every episode of The Indicator  and Planet Money  and Reply All  and Freakonomics -- a...

To continue with the weekly theme of aging and decay, you might want to listen to the newest episode of The Indicator.   It's called &qu...

I was in a lousy mood last week. January really dragged-- lots of gray and damp weather. No joyful snowfall. The park is a muddy goose-shit ...

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...