Posts from July 2022

Pitfall

“Unless you were there in 1982, you can’t even imagine how baller this setup was.” – via @Super70sSports

“They’re espadrilles but they’re flat,” my wife said to me in Rome with the same mistaken confidence it would be understood as if I’d remarked to her that Chamberlain should never have been fooled by the Stresa Conference and appeasement was always destined to fail.

Dave (Warner Bros., 1993, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver) is a perfect movie made even better by Charles Grodin and Ving Rhames. And it even has a cameo by the brilliant Nina Totenberg.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.