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Marching Band Art
The September issue of Harper's, which I just got around to reading, features several drawings by New Orleans-based artist Bruce...
sarafoss, 18 October 2011 |
Watching "The Ides of March"
Over at the DG, I review the new political thriller "The Ides of March," which is engrossing, entertaining and smart, although not...
She Keeps Going and Going ... Right Into Her Mouth
My daughter Allison, whom we affectionately call Alli, is a slip of a baby. At 22 months, she weighs only 22 pounds with shoes and a...
Small Town Virtues
Over on The Reality-Based Community, Michael O'Hare ponders why political candidates are more likely to boast about growing up in a...
New Tom Waits
The new Tom Waits album "Bad As Me" comes out Oct. 25. Here's the title track.
Walking in the Dark
Over at the DG, my colleague Margaret Hartley writes in her weekly column Greenpoint about some of the sounds she's heard, and some of...
The Kids You Deserve
Over in my weekly column at the DG, I write about parents, and how they often seem to wind up with the kids they deserve. Here's an...
Happiness is Overrated
In the Boston Globe, Gareth Cook suggests that there's a dark side to the pursuit of happiness. Which comes as no surprise to me....
Cool Dolphin Footage
Click here to check out this awesome video of a super pod of dolphins.
Bill Griffith in Hudson
In his blog Get Visual, my colleague David Brickman reviews the Bill Griffith exhibit at BCB Art in Hudson. Griffith is the creator...
The Incomplete Book of Running
I can feel my midlife crisis coming on, and instead of buying a Porsche, I've decided to take up running. At the age of 35, I've just...
Rooting for Detroit, and Against My Husband
I love the Detroit Tigers. My husband loves the Texas Rangers. It’s been a difficult week in our little apartment in...
Top Reads of the Week
Sports: Tatiana Zarnowski on the Milwaukee Brewers , and Sara Foss on the Boston Red Sox . Music: Tony Are on Pentangle, and...
Helpful Charts
From Business Insider, of all places, comes this handy collection of charts attempting to explain what the Wall Street protestors are so...
Not the Strokes
Every once in a while a writer makes a declaration so absurd that I simply cannot process it. Such was the case earlier this week, when...
NFL Picks, Week 6
Over at the DG, I make my week 6 NFL picks. Click here to see them.
Grouplove and the Importance of Context
In my first post on this blog, I gave my first impressions of a few new albums and mentioned that it is very rare for me to fall in...
Attack of the Human Centipede (And Other Examples of...
When The Human Centipede (First Sequence) was released in the United States there were two distinct reactions to this movie about...
Red Sox Blather
So the Boston Globe came out with a grisly post-mortem of the Red Sox collapse today. We learn many things about this team, such...
Poetic Interlude
I'd never heard of the Swedish writer Tomas Transtromer until last week, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here's...
Watching "50/50"
Over at the DG, I review the new cancer comedy "50/50." Click here to read all about it.
Championing Obscurity: Becoming A Brewers Fan
Talk about a high-pressure situation. The Milwaukee Brewers are tied with the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship...
How to Overcome the Preschool Blues
What do you do when your four-year-old already hates school and he hasn't even gotten to kindergarten yet? That's the dilemma I'm in...
All The Single Ladies
Over at The Atlantic, Kate Bolick takes a look at how more women are staying single, ponders why that might be and suggests that...
The 50th Anniversary of "The Phantom Tollbooth"
At The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik considers a classic of children's literature. Here's an excerpt: "Our cult of decade...