I DON’T KNOW JACK-O-LANTERNS
With Halloween only a couple of weeks away my wife and I are getting into the spirit. Today we dragged our son to look at costumes, and yesterday we purchased several sacks of candy. We decorated the house a [...]
WALTER MOSLEY DOESN’T DO RHYME
I can't afford hardcover books on a non-profit director's salary, but I like to read and I read often (mostly on the train and the toilet).  So what I do is buy paperbacks, go to the [...]
DADDY, WHAT’S A NUKE?
By now everyone knws that President Kim Jong-il of North Korea has decided to set sanity aside and test a weapon of mass destruction. Sadly, while the U.S. is tied up in Iraq fighting a [...]
BLACK SUNDAY: TV SEGREGATION
You've got to give it to the new CW. They are the only major television network that can boast a block of black sitcoms. In fact when last I looked the CW is the only [...]
HEY! C’MERE STUPID A%S!
Yes, my boy strikes again. I wrote a post a month or so ago where I told the story of how my budding fiction writer likes to, well, tell stories. He's at it again. A few days [...]
ZOOS, GARDENS, AQUARIUMS, OH MY
Today we finished off the summer field-trip trifecta with a trip to the New York Aquarium. Knowing that my son looses his freaking mind late in the afternoon, we rushed out of the house at [...]