Joey deVilla

Sometimes it turns around

Richard at Just a Gwai Lo linked to my earlier entry about what makes a date a date and linked…

23 years ago

"A lot of you were jerks"

It reads like something straight out of John Hughes' teen coming-of-age movies from the 80s: unpopular geek gets voted valedictorian…

23 years ago

Defending Scrooge

Found via this MetaFilter post: In Defense of Scrooge, in which poor Ebenezer is viewed in a sympathetic, almost heroic,…

23 years ago

Suddenly, all those body-cavity searches I’ve been getting at the airport make sense

My two-year-old nephew Aidan is a genius at identifying the various engines and train cars from the television show Thomas…

23 years ago

In love and war, it’s the declaration that counts

On the evening of Christmas Day, after my sister and brother-in-law had taken their kids home and I'd finished helping…

23 years ago

Tonight’s menu item is not for the squeamish

Family tradition is for us to have a Christmas gathering for the extended family a couple of days after Christmas,…

23 years ago

Not likely to be made a made-for-TV holiday special anytime soon

In response to my last posting, a reader asked if I had "some wacky story in the spirit of your…

23 years ago