Childhood dreams come true, I hope
I was reading Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece Dangerous Minds and came upon this paragraph dealing with how psychics can appear to be so accurate in so many of their statements: "The…
Turns out I like jangle
While writing this past weekend, I found myself in need of headphones and music. Between the kids and Elysha, the house had grown loud, and I needed to drone out…
I listened to Alice’s Restaurant before I died.
There are lots of reasons for my abject fear and loathing of death. Lots and lots of damn good reasons. Here's one: Alice's Restaurent, the 1967 song by singer-songwriter Arlo…
“Holy guacamole!”
"Holy guacamole" is an expression of disbelief or surprise based solely on the fact that the words "holy" and "guacamole" rhyme. Someone, at some point in history, took two random…
The McRib is back.
2020 has certainly had its silver linings. This is a big one.
The proper response to name calling, and the proper time to use name calling, too.
A reader recently called me a hypocrite. My response: List as many examples as possible of my hypocrisy in everyday life and let hm know that his name calling MEANS…
Flaming Lips might be the strangest
There will be a day, not too far in the future, when we will look back on the year of the pandemic and say things like: "I still can't believe…
The Bern, Switzerland flag is interesting
Interesting fact about Switzerland: It has no capital city. The seat of government is located in Bern, but in an effort to prevent any of its 26 cantons (states) from…
A student, a future President, and Lester Holt
Last week, one of my students said to me, quite casually, "Did you see the Biden interview, Mr. Dicks? The one with Lester Holt?" In a time when a President…
Pandemic lasts
Some pre-pandemic lasts that I'm very much looking forward to updating at some point in 2021: Last movie: 1917, December 2019 Last visit to NYC: February 15-17 Last live show:…
