Sentence of Dave

My favorite joke of all time-- the Willie Nelson joke -- appeared in one of Adrian McKinty's crime novels, leading to a visit from McKin...

I'm proud to announce that I've released TEN episodes of my podcast "We Defy Augury"  . . . and I hope I have enough mat...

Yesterday my wife and I went to the Jersey Cyclone Brewing Company -- which, like Cypress Brewery  is located in a weird industrial park-- b...

Yesterday's sentence was vague, Yoda-esque, and boring-- so here's a bit more detail: yesterday, Ian and I took off for Hamilton, Ne...

 The SAT is too long.

We are past the "dog days" of summer-- those occur in late July, when the dog star Sirius appears to rise alongside the sun-- but ...

My buddy Cob and I went to play tennis this morning at Johnson Park, and the girl's tennis team was practicing-- taking up a few courts-...

I enjoyed Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau so much that I went ahead and read the original, the novel her book is ba...

I survived my colonoscopy today-- and last night's utterly disgusting colonoscopy prep-- and I will NOT be doing this procedure again fo...

This sentence is going to be a little hazy because I'm fasting for my colonoscopy tomorrow morning-- but I've gotten lots of advice ...

I'm still a little dazed from our beach vacation-- lots of pickleball, tennis, spikeball, eating, drinking, and young male hijinks . . ....

Finally, some decent weather . . . high 70s and East winds down in Sea Isle, I finished "Nemesis Games," the fifth book in the Exp...

We were about to get an early start to Sea Isle City yesterday-- the car fully packed, bikes on the rack, chairs on the roof-- when we notic...

If you're looking for a fun, thrilling, and kind of ridiculous "many worlds" quantum multiverse sci-fi book that explores the ...

Today, for the first time in my life, I visited a gastroenterologist-- aptly named Dr. Plumser-- and when he asked why I was visiting, I sai...

Today, for the first time in my life, I visited the dermatologist and when the doctor-- Dr. Penelope Cohen, a little lady who wore a doctor...

My wife's garden has been producing an abundance of hot peppers and we needed to do something with them before they decayed in the crisp...

Here are a few things I remember from OBFT XXIX: 1) manatee sighting; 2) Bruce gave a heartfelt speech and then we took turns scattering som...

Two good things: 1) Jordan Peele's new movie Nope . . .  it's Moby Dick, Jaws,  and Close Encounters of the Third Kind  all rolled u...

I'm not sure I'd like living in a place where it rains all the time-- Pittsburgh or Rochester or Seattle-- but we've had quite a...