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February fugue

February 15, 2021 by Dave Knadler

In Barry Levinson’s 1990 movie “Avalon,” there’s a scene where the aging patriarch sits down in his easy chair in front of the TV. The camera remains stationary, but there’s a slow cross-fade, and at the end of it we see that several years have passed. The old guy is in the same chair, […]

Filed Under: american life, Me, thatfuckingtrump, winter, Writing

Jigsaw etiquette

April 22, 2020 by Dave Knadler

During these uncertain times, you may find yourself borrowing jigsaw puzzles. I hate to borrow anything, but I don’t own any puzzles, and looking online I see that pretty much anything rated age 6 and above is back-ordered to around 2025. Some neighbors were nice enough to loan us a few. We worked on […]

Filed Under: american life, games, Me, Other Stuff, Pandemic Tagged With: Pandemic

A good time for fiction

July 9, 2018 by Dave Knadler

least best place book cover

I know; it’s been awhile. The Trump nightmare keeps getting darker, and writing about anything else has seemed frivolous. But life goes on. I am just determined to outlive this bastard, to dance rhetorically on his grave when all this passes, as it must. So I’ve deleted Facebook and Twitter from my phone again, […]

Filed Under: Books, Me, thatfuckingtrump, Writing

Bonfire of my vanity

January 15, 2018 by Dave Knadler

gallery faces

Take a look at the composite picture above: What do the five faces have in common? I’ll just wait here while you ponder. Hint: It’s not the Dave Clark Five. It’s not the Five Amigos. It’s not the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It’s not the Five Guys. It’s not the Five Pillars of […]

Filed Under: internet, Me, social media

Vain hopes for 2018

January 1, 2018 by Dave Knadler

Last night we headed for bed just before midnight. The New Year’s Eve gunfire was like the opening battle scene in “Saving Private Ryan,” to the point that the dog followed us upstairs to cower by the bed. My wife asked me what my hopes for 2018 might be. She asks things like that. […]

Filed Under: Me, new year's, thatfuckingtrump

Peace through television

July 6, 2017 by Dave Knadler

I haven’t posted for — what, five months now? — because every time I have an idea it somehow ends up with the phrase “that fucking Trump.” The original idea could be about television or books or movies, or gardening or the importance of regular oil changes, and still those words keep forcing themselves […]

Filed Under: Me, tv

Thar he blows

March 2, 2017 by Dave Knadler

moby dick illustration

Call me Ishmael. Or call me Dave. Really, either one is fine. The thing is, I’ve started reading “Moby Dick.” It’s a Lenten exercise. Last year it was “War and Peace,” this year it’s the great white whale. Somehow I’d managed to avoid it until now. Then Lent rolled around and I started thinking […]

Filed Under: Books, Me, reading

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