Sentence of Dave

We went out in New Brunswick last night, to Clydz and Efes, and I probably (certainly?) drank a little bit too much . . . and then I stayed ...

My wife and I lucked out the other night at the Waxahatchee show at the Beacon Theater-- our seats were in the second row of the balcony and...

My wife and I went into "town" yesterday, which is how Tom Buchanan refers to New York City in The Great Gatsby , and both the hot...

The hinge on our oven door has been broken for quite a while now-- how long? . . . I'm not really sure-- but it's been getting worse...

A new episode of We Defy Augury  in which I explore thoughts (loosely) inspired by Halle Butler's novel  Banal Nightmare   and I also a...

So the British mockumentary series  Cunk on Earth-- in which Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) bumbles her way through human history with deadpa...

Today, for the first time all summer, I can feel it, in the offing . . . SCHOOL . . . it's looming out there in the dim mists of next we...

This won't be my most lucid sentence-writing, and you will learn why soon enough-- but I was involved with three mysteries today (so far...

As I roll through the piping hot valley of death, I keep turning in circles, making left after left-- but I can't lead a normal life, I ...

Normally, I always try to walk into New Brunswick because parking is such a pain-in-the-ass, but yesterday I had to drive because I was drop...

I am a sucker for British mystery novels and a sucker for meta-fictional humor and in The Sentence of Death , Anthony Horowitz once again pr...

You're going to feel one way or the other about Halle Butler's novel Banal Nightmare   . . . the millennials that wander about this ...

Today my wife and I did NOT travel to the above Hindu temple in New Delhi . . . instead, we did the next best thing and drove to Robbinsvill...

Friday afternoon Terry was nice enough to host a small get-together of English teachers-- his wife and kids went to visit the grandparents i...

Let's bask in the beauty of the title of this post for a moment because the rest of this experience will probably be a letdown . . . aft...

Though my wife and I were feeling beaten and beleaguered by our used car shopping expeditions, we got on the road again this morning, hoping...

My wife took my son to Trader Joe's yesterday and I asked her to pick me up a bottle of hot sauce-- not Sriracha or Taco Sauce, but some...

Anthony Horowitz, the author of A Line to Kill , once again puts the fictional version of himself-- slightly less famous, more maligned vers...

My wife and I have gained much-used car wisdom in our search-- we're especially wary of strange fees and cars that are not ready for a t...

Sometimes I wonder if my dog actually respects me as her most loyal companion, or if she just knows that I'm the one who remembers to fe...