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An elegant weapon for a more civilized 4-year-old

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Island Packet — Kids these days, they just don’t know how good they have it. They have the YouTubes, they have the orange and purple iPods, they have the Wii, with that little remote control you wave around to make that gelatinous snowman that’s supposed to be a tennis player on the TV do tennis-y [...]

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“Clone Wars”: For those who’ve been missing the crackling dialogue and hilarious comedy of the “Star Wars” prequels

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , , , , , on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Island Packet - A new “Star Wars” film opened that week, though you might not have noticed - and judging by the box office take, you didn’t - yet this strange bald Lucas apologist at work thought the film was gonna be the cat’s pajamas, leading to my contributing the following essay on Why You [...]

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The Boy goes through another “Phase”

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

GateHouse - These days, and for about the past month or so, my son Jake has wanted as little to do with me as he can get away with and still live indoors and enjoy semi-regular meals.
It is, on most days, as though I’m invisible, not even the room, not even in the house, some [...]

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Guns don’t kill people, Darth Vader does (with guns)

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , , , , on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »

Island Packet - The Little Man has developed a spirited interest in gun toys these days, which is no surprise, since he’s 4 years old and a boy, and at some distant point in evolutionary history it was programmed into human DNA that during their early development, boys will get really, really into gun toys.
I [...]

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Paper vs. Plastic, Or, Showdown In Aisle 9

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , on September 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »

GateHouse - I went with paper bags at the grocery store the other day. It was an impulse, a last-minute decision, a what-the-hell sort of thing and one powered mostly by latent guilt: my green aspirations generally outweigh my green activity by an embarrassing margin. Last week I was suitably mocked by a buddy for [...]

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Karl, I think I’ll miss you most of all

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , , , on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

GateHouse - When I played it over and over in my head nearly every day throughout the past seven years, the day that Karl Rove resigned would elicit frothy, embarrassing fits of uncontrollable glee in me; it would be on par with the day I accidentally sank a college three-pointer in fifth-grade gym class, or [...]

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