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Box of cocktails
Monday 4/7/25 A person can say just about anything they want if people don't or won't see the evidence. And that's what people do. In a...
Apr 7, 20256 min read


Gary Dunning and Nicole Taney of the Celebrity Series of Boston: Two people who don't object to the mocking of the disabled
Saturday 4/5/25 Just entering this into the record. David Sedaris, mocker of disabled people who believes they shouldn't have jobs if he...
Apr 5, 20253 min read


Grateful Dead audience tapes, stories, M.R. James on the BBC, buddy/Meriwether Lewis
Friday 4/4/25 My mother told me yesterday that she was going to lunch with a certain someone I knew, and when I asked if that someone was...
Apr 4, 20254 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: Lydia Davis and how her work gets printed, with stops at the VQR, Electric Literature, and Conjunctions, and a nod to Saul Anton
Friday 4/4/25 It's helpful to understand the ways in which the people of the publishing system behave. Remember: I am the bad guy, though...
Apr 4, 20257 min read


Prose off: Witty and masterful Joyce Carol Oates story--sure!--put forward by lying, angling, hook-up dependent editor/writer Mitch Wieland in the Idaho Review v. Fleming story
Thursday 4/3/25 Do you understand how bad Joyce Carol Oates is at writing? I will help you understand. Here's how it works with Oates....
Apr 3, 20259 min read


Terrible men saying that Caitlin Clark is ugly
Thursday 4/3/25 I saw this post on Threads that quoted a racist moron at ESPN saying that Caitlin Clark is only what she is because she's...
Apr 3, 20254 min read


You're the stair guy, aren't you? + Bloomsbury Object Lessons and BFI Film Classics
Thursday 4/3/25 Walked three miles yesterday, did 100 push-ups, ran five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. While running...
Apr 3, 20259 min read


He was Scotty in The Thing from Another World: The baffling Hollywood career of Douglas Spencer
Wednesday 4/2/25 In the 1954 film Them! --which is simultaneously one of the best horror films of the 1950s, one of the best sci-films, one of the best thrillers, an ecological parable, and a Cold War warning--there's a scene where a bunch of reporters fight for position to ask questions as to what's going. A bespectacled, balding fellow fires off a question, which was also the actor's lone line in the film. Horror and sci-fi fans are apt to do a double-take, because it seems
Apr 2, 20254 min read


One little thing gotten right in this world
Wednesday 4/2/25 Speaking of Candy Land : My buddy Amelia/Ms. Weber is known as a notorious cheater when it comes to this game which,...
Apr 2, 20257 min read


O-dee-us
Monday 3/30/25 This woman who is in bed with all of these evil people in publishing got on my Instagram page, acted like the...
Mar 31, 20252 min read


Prose off, Do-these-people-ever-stop-tonguing-their-navels edition: Sentences of a story by Pulitzer finalist Yiyun Li put forward in Yale Review by system apparatchik Meghan O'Rourke v. Fleming story
Sunday 3/30/25 In an industry loaded with frauds, bigots, people hooked up from the word "go," a Meghan O'Rourke still stands out....
Mar 30, 20258 min read


Maybe Rafael Devers should have tried to get ready in spring training, a Shohei Ohtani thought, the soullessness of the transfer portal era, rhythm of the game, get used to it Bruins fans
Sunday 3/30/25 What's the worst start a player has ever had to a season in MLB? I don't know the answer, but I do know that Rafael Devers...
Mar 30, 20255 min read


The University of Minnesota Press strikes again with a Beatles book this time
Sunday 3/30/25 The University of Minnesota Press--which, as we've seen, is a joke with their pandering George Floyd children's book ...
Mar 30, 20256 min read


Prose off: MFA machined fiction in the Hudson Review put forward by Paula Deitz, someone whose life has centered on nothingness and whatever was most boring by the right person, v. Fleming story
Saturday 3/29/25 How about a Saturday morning prose off beat down? Shall we? Yes, let's do it. Remember Paula Deitz , editor at Hudson...
Mar 29, 20257 min read


let's start the family and get a house you probably want a garden
Saturday 3/29/25 I know someone who typically uses the word "lady" instead of "woman" which makes it sound like he lives in 1870 or else...
Mar 29, 20259 min read


Prose off in real-time: Story in One Story put forward by bad writer, obvious liar, and morally repugnant system fraud Patrick Ryan v. Fleming story
Friday 3/28/25 Let's talk about life in prose. I'm just going to throw out the latest shit here from One Story . The most recent excerpt...
Mar 28, 20254 min read


Some bully-dopes, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, opportunity, motivation, low bars and the people who treat them like mountain tops until they forget a couple days later
Thursday 3/27/25 Some incompetent, man-child dopes accidentally texted restricted information to the editor of The Atlantic and you...
Mar 27, 20256 min read


Prose off: Another Paris Review hook-up special in the form of an Amie Barrodale short story courtesy of raging classist editor (you better be one of us!) Emily Stokes v. Fleming story
Wednesday 3/26/25 Amie Barrodale is one of the hyper-connected system people of publishing who has no ability. She writes very little,...
Mar 26, 202515 min read


Trying
Wednesday 3/26/25 People don't have interests. People aren't interesting. People are most interested in themselves. People say they want...
Mar 26, 20254 min read


Concept album
Sunday 3/23/25 I think I may be all set with the getting up multiple times in the middle of the night thing and the culprit was all of...
Mar 23, 20256 min read


Short story excerpt: "Just Pants"
Saturday 3/22/25 Doing some prose. This is from a story called "Just Pants." Could be for Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid Exceptions...
Mar 22, 20256 min read


Coming up on a quarter
Saturday 3/22/25 Found a nice audio version of Wodehouse's Ring for Jeeves with Martin Jarvis, who was so memorable in that reading of...
Mar 22, 20254 min read


Micah Wright of Tennessee: Someone who wanted to be on the blog so bad that they lied about being on the blog so that they could be on the blog
Saturday 3/22/25 I received the following: Name:: Micah Wright Email:: michahmariec@gmail.com Phone:: - ...
Mar 22, 20251 min read


There he goes
Thursday 3/20/25 Got back to it a little bit fitness-wise yesterday. Walked six miles and did five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill...
Mar 20, 20255 min read
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