Embrace the Absurdity

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I played indoor pickleball this morning at an open play and ended up paired with a fairly skilled but very surly man named Sergei-- we were ...

Should Have Known Better

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Last night I met my friends and my son Alex at Tavern on George to watch the Knicks defeat the Pacers-- which was very fun-- but I had commi...
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I've Got a Perfect Puzzle For You

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Until I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History episode "Nooks and Crannies" —which is about the legality surroundi...

Pure Innocent Fun

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Ira Madison's collection of pop culture essays, Pure Innocent Fun , is the elder millennial Black gay man's dishier version of Chuck...

Something Happened

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When I was young, you specified the thing you were listening to, watching, or reading: I'm reading the new Stephen King book; I'm li...
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"very rough trail through boulder field"

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  Catherine and I took a hike in the John Witherspoon Woods this morning-- a patch of land we'd never visited -- and we entered from the...
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Go Knicks

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My two cents: Sunday sporting event should be on earlier than 8 PM.

Dave Gives it the Ol' Viticulture Try

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Over two decades ago, Calvin Trillin explained that in a blind taste test, most people can't tell the difference between red and white w...
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At Least It Wasn't a Heart Attack . . . Ack ack

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Apparently, pianoman Billy Joel has canceled all his upcoming concerts because of "normal pressure hydrocephalus," which I believe...

Dave Does NOT Use This Concept and Suffers For It

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A couple of days ago in the comments  my friend Rob coined the term "psychic hedge"-- but this might not be the best name for this...

Good Ideas . . . What the Fuck?

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  My new episode of We Defy Augury  philosophical, literary, and musical meditation on creativity and good ideas; the working title is ...
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Just Turning on a Giants Game is a Gamble

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After listening to Michael Lewis talk about fandom and sports gambling-- he was on Armchair Expert and he's doing a season of his own po...
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The Creeping Jenny Controversy

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  Creeping Jenny, otherwise known as Moneywort, is an herbaceous, semi-evergreen perennial from Eurasia that was introduced in North America...
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Groovy

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My wife (far left) and my cousins just before they went out to "Boogie Nights" at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, which I assume h...
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Time to Prep

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No time to write a sentence, as I need to continue brainstorming ideas for a Netflix pilot-- Monmouth County is about to become the new Holl...

Che Cazzo?

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Perhaps you have not experienced the surreal absurdist joys of the animated "Italian brainrot" characters and perhaps you are bett...

THIS Is Where You Get a Break From the Smelly Teenagers?

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Due to a damp and rainy week, the English Office-- the place where my colleagues eat, hang out, swap stories about the youth, and escape  th...

Boy's Life

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Horror and mystery writer Robert R. McCammon's 1991 novel Boy's Life  is something weird and different and special and I highly reco...
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Del is One Funky Homosapien

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Yesterday's sentence was a bit grim-- we're really feeling the effects of technology at my job, and it's casting a dark cloud ov...

What's Happening in Those Other Timelines?

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Sometimes-- like when my wife and I are walking on the sidewalk on Easton Avenue in New Brunswick and we almost get knocked over by a dude ...