Brandon Davies, starting forward for the #3 ranked BYU Cougar basketball team, was dismissed from the squad this week for breaking the school’s honor code (note: the lofty ranking will be short-lived as BYU got trampled by New Mexico last night in the team’s 1st game without it’s leading rebounder). […]
An English Royal Wedding. It hasn’t happened in 3 decades, and when it does next summer, OWTK will be watching. Now, we remain firmly anti-reality TV/celebrity gawking, and the royal family in general continues to interest me not, but the Prince William nuptials will show my girls (all young girls, […]
The man’s music already altered my life once. It’d be greedy to expect it to do it again. I was 17 (half of my current age) when “Gentlemen” entered my life. I saw the video for “Debonair” once and that was enough to get The Afghan Whigs major label debut […]
The Mouse and I just returned from the market. All the Halloween candy was out, in full force. The supermarkets are, of course, hoping that you buy everything you need for 10/31 now, then proceed to eat it all in the next 4 weeks thus forcing you to return to […]
Look, I don’t like any merger of sexuality and childhood but Sesame Street’s decision to pull the Katy Perry & Elmo “Hot & Cold” video (from the Sesame Street TV broadcast) reeks of overreaction – even if it is the right move. How could the folks behind The Street think […]
There are an overwhelming number of items to consider upon discovering a baby inside your belly (or for guys, discovering that a certain little someone will soon call you ‘dada’…then pee on you). One thing that, it seems to me, is too-often overlooked by newly-minted or expecting parents is the […]
Sometimes a dad’s job isn’t to offer advice or bits of wisdom gathered along his own journey. No, sometimes a dad’s most important job is nothing more than extending a hand to help his daughter up off the unforgiving gravel as she learns to roller skate.
