Sentence of Dave

Good thing it's summer (and I'm not working) because Bruce Springsteen just released "Tracks II: The Lost Albums," which i...

My wife and I watched  To Live and Die in L.A.  last night — it's streaming for free on Amazon Prime and I don't know how we missed ...

Now that we've entered the AI revolution, it's highly improbable that anyone other than my good friends will end up in the godforsak...

I managed to shake off the cobwebs this morning (after yesterday's long day of celebratory drinking) and Cat and I hiked up Baldpate Mou...

Another end of the school year . . . and another end of the school year mural-- and goodbye to Jess-- the centerpiece to this mural-- a grea...

Nothing turns my stomach more than happening upon a cute little kid running a ramshackle lemonade stand-- a moment before, I had no desire t...

It's 100 degrees today in New Jersey-- as hot as it gets-- and when I got in my car to leave the school parking lot,  I burned my hands ...

The Leopard  is the best novel by a Sicilian I have ever read . . . it is also the only novel by a Sicilian that I have ever read, I think--...

My wife and I visited Bell Works in Holmdel today-- the mixed-use facility built within the old Bell Labs building and the site where some o...

I just applied Musher's Secret paw wax on my dog's little feet-- this stuff helps protect your dog's paw pads when it's extr...

Another school year, another end-of-the-year party . . . and a new addition in the diversions-- besides cornhole, this year there was also k...

The world is a complicated place: when it's very humid, it's more difficult to shave with an electric razor, but it's easier to ...

This morning, I listened to this entire Derek Thompson podcast about the importance of avoiding ultra-processed sugary foods , and I swore t...

  I gave my rock soapwort seeds the "cold treatment" in the fridge for a few weeks, and now I've pressed them into some pottin...

My new episode of We Defy Augury--  "Weezer, Creativity, and the Nullity of Identity" -- is loosely inspired by the SNL Weezer s...

A bittersweet, cold, and rainy Father's Day-- the first one without my dad around-- but I certainly made good use of my gift: I read nea...

Even though I went to the gym and lifted some weights this morning, that wasn't enough exercise to quell my stir craziness-- this strain...

Even though it's nearly summer and senior cut day, I actually taught a high school kid something today-- at bathroom duty, of all places...

Going to the vet is like going to the auto mechanic: cars and animals can't talk (unless perhaps your pet is a parrot with an extensive ...

They say a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work, and a good day fishing is certainly better than a bad day at work . . . or som...