2 days ago3 minBaseball thingsMonday 3/30/20 The other night I watched some of Games 5 and 6 of the 1986 NLCS. They were on TV. I have them on DVD somewhere, but they were on TV. The 1986...
2 days ago4 minBrewMonday 3/30/20 Yesterday marked 199 weeks without a drink, which is 1393 days. I ran three miles and am heading out to run in a bit. I have had a lot of head...
2 days ago3 min"Wood Ducks", short story excerptMonday 3/30/20 I have composed a new story this morning. That is now ninety-nine completed short stories since June 2018. A portion of this one, which is cal...
2 days ago2 minWestern noirSunday 3/29/20 Warner Brothers Home video is putting out Blu-rays of two Robert Mitchum films from 1948, Rachel and the Stranger and Blood on the Moon. I mus...
2 days ago14 minUtilitySunday 3/29/20 New week begins. I'm listening to a radio adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Haunted Hotel. I look at dating apps and think about fielding the ...
5 days ago3 minIllusionsFriday 3/27/20 I am writing like a motherfucker. Finished the Defoe essay, 2200 words. Bloody hell this is good. One more little excerpt, then it's on to the...
5 days ago8 min"The Pandemic Within, the Pandemic Without", essay excerptFriday 3/27/20 People coming out of the woodwork. I will not give it the time or the energy. My focus is on one thing, and one thing only, and that is gettin...
6 days ago2 min"Easter Man: Ernest Renan’s Polarizing Biography of Jesus Christ", nonfiction excerptThursday 3/26/20 I am going to have to finish this tomorrow. Have been writing since six this morning. Spoke to E. There is not going to be a funeral for her...
6 days ago2 minThe great Howard MerrittThursday 3/26/20 Wanted to take a moment and do a post about my buddy Howard Merritt of Providence. He's a great person, and he's helped me out a lot over th...
6 days ago5 minMay take a weekThursday 3/26/20 I wish I could share that interview I gave on Sam Cooke but Ryan hasn't put up the podcast yet. He doesn't want to share stuff like that rig...
6 days ago3 min"The Horn Players (Stackable Variations)", short story excerptThursday 3/26/20 Two Mozart scholars meet in the library stacks at the conservatory. One hums the opening of the Jupiter symphony, the other the Dies Irae po...
6 days ago5 min"Don’t be a perv !! ugh !!!!"Thursday 3/26/20 It is not eight in the morning and I have composed an excellent new story, called "The Horn Players (Stackable Variations)," which takes the...
7 days ago1 minNo hopeWednesday 3/25/20 I am the definitive proof that the least relevant quality in the world right now is talent. I didn't run today. It's just too depressing to...
7 days ago2 min"Sound Holes", short story excerptWednesday 3/25/20 She woke up, felt around her back, there they were, the holes, all five, just above her waist. Each was a different size corresponding to a...
7 days ago3 minPublishing hateWednesday 3/25/20 I wrote a perfect work of fiction today called "Sound Holes." I have written thirty-eight short stories in 2020. That's the fiction. That's...
Mar 242 minJazz photography excerptTuesday 3/24/20 Good Christ I'm writing at a high level. Just one thing after another, completely different from what proceeded it. Just composed an 800 word...
Mar 243 min"I completed it!"Tuesday 3/24/20 The "it" being this 5000 word essay on Sherlock Holmes and breakfast, which will be adjusted for inclusion in the memoir, Saving Angles: Find...
Mar 245 minRalph the beagleTuesday 3/24/20 Many people in publishing backload excuses into their lives. They are themselves excuses incarnate. They are passive, almost never active, we...
Mar 233 minPoint timeMonday 3/23/20 Ran three miles. Tenth day in a row. Much more importantly, I did that alternate version of "Shed," which will now be considered the definitiv...
Mar 233 min"Pre-Prime", short story excerptMonday 3/23/20 The night, he thought, has a way of shifting into itself—an assertion of its night-ness even while the color of sky stays the same, the clock ...