One of my least favorite things in the world is admitting I was wrong. You know where this is going. About a year and a half ago Disney released a new, live-action version of Aladdin, starring Will Smith (of all people) … Continue reading
Was it the roar of the crowd? Or the community pride in that catchy new nickname? Either way, the professional football team formerly known as the RED***S found its mojo yesterday, after a beginning that was all too characteristic of … Continue reading
Trying to explain September 11 to kids born in the past decade or so is kind of like trying to explain the coronavirus to, well, kids born in the past decade or so. The world isn’t really like this, so we … Continue reading
Schoolbells ring and children sing, “It’s back to Robert Hall again.” It’s the only song I ever heard my father sing… two lines from a (then) 50-year-old advertising jingle. He didn’t know the rest of the words either.
When I was a kid I used to sort of hate Labor Day because it meant the end of summer. Thirty years later I pretty much feel the same way. … Continue reading
Friday before Labor Day. It’s a real holiday. Just look it up. Actually no, don’t… just enjoy it. Thanks.
Amidst a sea of darkness in this global pandemic I have found my newly-purchased second computer monitor to be a shining beacon of merriment and diversion. When it’s all over can I ever go back to one monitor? Never again. … Continue reading
When I was a kid and we talked about the future it was always flying cars and robots. Now that we’re here the most interesting thing to me about “the future” is being able to go to the grocery store.
Of 15 games scheduled across Major League Baseball yesterday only eight of them were actually played. Of those eight games, four of them were shutouts. (What is this, 1968?) In the remaining four games, losing teams scored 1, 3, 3, and … Continue reading
It dawned on me yesterday that in the virtual-schooling era we are never going to have a “snow day,” or any other cancellation because we can’t get to school. Connectivity issues cancelling school maybe, but not weather. And come to … Continue reading