Sentence of Dave

1 ) The Candy House  by Jennifer Egan 2) The House Across the Lake  by Riley Sager 3) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands  by Kate Beaton 4) ...

If you're looking for a mash-up of Alice in Wonderland, Frankenstein, and a self-reflexive, autonomous, meta-Pygmalion (with the additio...

Hopefully, the proverb "bad things come in threes" is accurate-- because we had three bad things happen in rapid-fire succession t...

If you're looking for a thriller that lambastes rich white gentrifiers, pharmaceutical companies, and government-subsidized business acq...

As I was plodding through Rober Caro's The Power Broker  yesterday morning, I wondered whether Caro will eventually pluck the low-hangin...

Christmas morning, I remembered that months ago I had bought one of those mini-phone-tripods and never opened the box . . . so I gave myself...

My handiwork is over on Gheorghe: The Blog today . . . some reading recommendations and a Letterman-style Top Ten List for why you should re...

A couple of pleasant holiday moments: 1) I picked up Alex from Rutgers yesterday-- he survived his engineering exams but in regards to them,...

It seems AI will replace low-level sports journalism-- AI can already do a serviceable job summarizing and analyzing the box score of a part...

My College Writing students are hard-working and wonderful this year, which-- on the one hand is a good thing-- but on the other hand, it me...

Today was very Monday, a caricature of Monday-ness, beginning with a torrential storm that soaked Lola and me thoroughly on our morning walk...

All good things must come to an end, and so much like Linsanity,  The Tommy-Devito A.K.A. The Cutlet Kid Winning Streak has run its course ....

Chalk it up to Paul Giamatti (pun intended) to portray the most curmudgeonly, yet compellingly human grouch of a private school ancient stud...

Here's some shit I learned today: 1. you're not going to get much done with a regular-level senior English class on the penultimate ...

Once again, it's the time of year when I wish I lived on the equator-- sunrise and sunset in Quito are always around 6 AM and 6 PM, resp...

Last night my wife whipped up some Indian food-- chicken tikka masala and daal tarka and some other lentil thing-- and then she realized we ...

I shot poorly again at basketball this morning, the second week in a row-- so it must be my glasses-- I haven't had an eye exam for a lo...

Escaping the city on Saturday night was damn near impossible-- and while my friends blamed SantaCon for the volume, there's also a more...

Approximately three years ago, in February of 2020, we went into the city for my friend Connell's 50th birthday-- we went to Turntable C...

Before I left to play pickleball yesterday afternoon, I got a whiff of something stale and sweaty and I had to play a most malodorous game: ...