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Never Seen in the Same Room
Inscrutable Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine holds the distinction of resembling two people I’ve known: a guy I once worked with and my old college roommate. Since very few of you know either of those people, I’ve found a more than suitable celebrity comparison for Bobby V.: none other than Art Metrano, who played…
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Improper Context
I’ve ranted before in this space about the supremely irritating doom n’ gloom attitude that has descended upon our society over the past few years, right? What, I haven’t? And what’s that? Having a hypothetical give-and-take with the reader is a supremely irritating device? Anywho… I refer, of course, to the concerned/hyper-informed/bemused mien that we…
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Things I Think I’ve Learned As A Parent
I’ve been a parent for 6 and a half years, and in that time I’ve accumulated enough knowledge to…well, to fill up about half a blog post. I have two daughters and, while they are my world, they kick my ass every day (twice on Sunday for good measure). There are many days I feel…
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Tepid Questions
How do they make babies cry on TV and in movies? I know it’s not a shock when an infant or a toddler cries, but when they really need the shot and the kid’s not cooperating, what do they do? Have a stagehand don a scary mask? Poke the kid with a sharp stick? Show…
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In Honor of National Library Week, A Rant Against My Local Library
Note: Yes, National Library Week was over a month ago. Unfortunately, I started this post and became bogged down with work and wasn’t able to complete it until recently. Humor me. National Library Week — I know, it’s finally here — seeks to celebrate that often-overlooked but extremely valuable jewel in every community: the public library.…
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Poor, Misunderstood Sarcasm
The notable priest Lawrence Lovasik once said, “A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” Fyodor Dostoevsky once opined that sarcasm is “…the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.” Oscar Wilde called sarcasm “the…
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Where Are They Now? Right F%$*ing Here!
We like to think of ourselves as a well-informed society. Well, not so much in the arena of current events, geography or the fine arts…but we can all identify a photo of Snooki, which I think plays no small part in galvanizing our nation. Yes, we have become pop culture mavens, able to wax rhapsodic…
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Writing Mad
As a freelance editor, I’ve been witness to some Ishtar-level disasters of spelling, punctuation, word choice and sentence construction. On one level, I am grateful for the business. But on another level, I am consistently disheartened when I read a graduate thesis written by someone with a clear phobia of commas. Please don’t misunderstand me — I don’t…
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Completely Odious Hollywood Phenomena, Part I
Everybody can see that Michael Cera plays virtually the same character in every movie, right? He brings the same nebbish, quirky persona to Juno, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One and, undoubtedly, whatever his next release is. Cera is by no means the only offender (read: Al Pacino, Will Smith, Matthew McConaughey) but, while his peers may rely…
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Geoff Wondering 