Typical Beach Report

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A solid Wednesday night get-together to start OBFT XXXIII— Billy, Cliffy, Charlie, Paci, Swaney, Vicki . . . uh . . .Ethan, Jason, (sorry to...

The Mall is a Mess

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Full disclosure: I love shitty hotel gyms—probably because I wake up early and this gives me a destination while my wife sleeps, and there i...

From Jersey to Double DC

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Yesterday my wife and I drove through violent rain to Washington DC— for two hours, it was a white-knuckle drive, and— as usual on the Turnp...
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What Happened at Roy Rogers in 1995, Remained at Roy Rogers in 1995 . . .

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My wife and I are about to leave for Washington, D.C. and after we spend a couple of nights sightseeing, she will take the train home, and I...
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What Are Two Kitchens I Had Never Been In?

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This week, my family tried and enjoyed food from two very different restaurants,  Amma's Kitchen and Birria Kitchen  . . . but they hav...
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Living Under the Shadow of a Big Dumb Cup

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My wife and I went to my buddy Terry's yesterday for some poolside fun, and while the food and the weather and the water and the company...
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Dave (and Shakespeare) Stick the Landing

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Shakespeare's Hamlet  has one of the finest endings of any piece of drama, and I think I did a pretty good job ending my podcast ABOUT t...

Finished!

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I am in a celebratory mood because I finished recording the audio for my final  Pig on the Wall   Hamlet podcast episode-- and in the nick o...
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One More Day of Recording!

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I am finally in the home stretch of my Pig on the Wall  Hamlet finale—I will finish it tomorrow morning . . . just in time, as my computer i...

The End is Nigh, The Rest is Silence

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I've been working like a dog every morning, for hours at a time, and I'm damned close to finishing my Hamlet  podcast . . . and bri...
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There, But For the Grace of God, Go I . . .

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Barbara Kingsolver's novel Demon Copperhead  retells the story of the orphan boy David Copperfield in modern-day Appalachia—Demon Copper...

We Live in a Twilight World

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Today I finished watching Tenet, which is generally considered Christopher Nolan's least-liked  movie—but luckily, this is my son Alex...

Nobody Wants to Hear This Shit

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My wife and I spent a few days at the beach—we stayed with my cousins—and while I couldn't play pickleball with my brother because of my...

Dave's Not Here Man

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I'm currently at the beach, but I asked DeepSeek to read my blog and provide you folks with a sentence in the same style as Dave, and th...

There's No Basement at the Alamo, and There's No Water Closet Inside the Trojan Horse

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My wife and I saw the Rutgers Cinema matinee showing of  The Odyssey—five  bucks! --But apparently we should have sprung to see it in IMAX ....

Keysourcing

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Call to action: we all need to put our heads together and remember where I put the spare key to my Kia.
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Dave's Left Knee . . . Won the Battle But Lost the War

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I did NOT sleep well last night: yesterday, I went for a bike ride in the morning, down the towpath next to the Raritan-- but after a few mi...
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Let Us Reflect Upon How Menacing These Big Dumb Cups Are

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My high school students, my wife, and-- according to this SNL Skit -- a large portion of the female populace (i.e. pretty ladies who drive m...
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Dave Has Three Different Thoughts in Less Than a Second

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I've been going to the gym often to ride the bike and use the elliptical machine because I just got a cortisone shot in my knee, and I...
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It's Never Ugly in Princeton (Even When the Air Quality is Awful)

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Yesterday, we took the train from what has to be one of the filthiest, smelliest, most dilapidated train stations in New Jersey: New Brunswi...