Sad Sporting State of Affairs

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This Sunday at 10 AM, which is normally the time I play pick-up soccer at the turf, but you know, the pandemic-- so I was rollerblading . . ...
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The Queen's Gambit is a Classed-up Cheesy Sports Movie

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I thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix mini-series "The Queen's Gambit," even as I recognized sports trope after sports trope; it...
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Things For Which to Be Thankful

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Due to the pandemic, Thanksgiving felt pretty weird this year, but I still have a hell of a lot to be thankful for . . . sorry, I have a hel...
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Happy Weirdsgiving?

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Happy Weirdsgiving . . . may your stuffing and gravy contain very little COVID . . . or perhaps this will be a true American Thanksgiving an...

The Wailing is an Awesome Movie

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The Wailing-- an epic 2016 Korean horror film-- is a cross between The Exorcist  and The Naked Gun . . . and  the imagery and cinematography...
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A Memory Called Empire

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A Memory Called Empire  by Arkady Martine is big-brained sci-fi and it will take a little while to understand what's going on (I didn...
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Of Podcasts and Analogies

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Joe Rogan is the Bruce Springsteen of podcasting; he's indefatigable and manages to be both a dude and a pro-- a weird combination of ev...
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9/11 and the Pandemic

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The current Covid pandemic and 9/11 are probably going to loom large in my lifetime-- the significant events that will leave their mark on m...

Home Computer Advantage

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A bonus of doing school from my home-bunker is that when I use my iMac, I don't have to remember to click the dreaded "share comput...

First Day of School All Over Again

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It was the first day of school all over again today . . . the first day COVID caused remote school-- and I had first day jitters-- I was hol...
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Heeeere's David!

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Winter is coming, it's getting dark before 5 PM, the pandemic is worsening, and my school has gone all remote so I'll be teaching at...

Modernist Poetry Helps Your Backhand?

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I'm nearly done with Timothy Gallwey's classic  The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Performance, and w...

Dave Encounters Three Dangerous Things

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As I was cleaning out our kitchen-junk-drawer I noticed dangerous thing number one: 1) Krazy Glue looks like Chapstick . . . which can lead ...
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Twice? Only When It's Double Twenty

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For the second time this year, the school where I teach is going completely virtual (and while this will be easier for me and probably simpl...

Several Pandemic Firsts

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A few minutes before our JV team was about to step on the field for today's home game against Sayreville, the opposing coach jogged over...

Another Scary Poem

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 This one is a bit shorter than my Halloween 2020 special . . . Two Four Six Eight Trump is gonna litigate! Seven Eight Nine Ten We will cou...

Escape from New York (After Willingly Going There)

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Catherine and I went to NYC today-- we drove in instead of taking the train because covid cases are rising around here-- and the drive was f...

Both Ends of the Sci-Fi Continuum Distract Dave

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In order to distract myself from all this election nonsense, I've been listening to Tom Petty and reading science-fiction; I just finish...

Fall Break Coronavirus! Whoo!

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Fall Break was off to an auspicious start-- Friday afternoon, I participated in the 9th Annual Scary Story Contest (and took third with my s...
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A Bit on the Snout

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  On my way home from school the other day, I was able to snap a picture of an endangered species: the extraordinarily rare, extremely liter...
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