Being a dad I’ve hosted birth­day par­ties in the past and have often had to go to birth­day par­ties of the chil­dren of friends of ours. It’s a trade off — you buy my kid a gift and that enti­tles your child to receive a gift from my kid at your kid’s next party. Every […]

I remem­ber when I was a kid that some kids (not me) when they were walk­ing to school in the cold would wear var­i­ous things — coats, gloves, hats, and some­times the invalu­ably effec­tive ski mask. I always wanted one. I never got one. They were awe­some. Your face would be warm out in the cold. An […]

My son loves Imag­inext Dinosaurs, I mean, really loves them, loves them so much that he wants not just one red Tyran­nosaurus Rex but also its part­ner, the looks-just-the-same-except-for-the-color green Tyran­nosaurus Rex. Both are named Razor, by the way, but my son never calls them that. It’s always just “T-rex”. And those T-rexs live, of […]

Kim and I met Charo at the Dal­las Museum of Art sev­eral years ago when she came there to hock some new salsa or some­thing for Pace. They had a car out­side dec­o­rated up by some artist or some­thing and she spoke and played her gui­tar for a few min­utes before a crowd of about […]

I like the Jason Bourne movies because they’re gritty and real­is­tic (kinda) ((If you can say any­thing about these movies it’s that they reignited the James Bond fran­chise. Daniel Craig is no Pierce Bros­nan in Casino Royale. He’s one mean SOB.)) and Matt Damon is much bet­ter as a CIA assas­sin than I thought he […]