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The squirrel's granary is full: Ceaselessness, stairs, Beatles piece, more Beatles, Chicago Tribune football op-ed, three most important box sets, assertive audience recordings, Lucas McCain
Monday 9/15/25 People ride into North Fork to take on Lucas McCain. They ask around to find out where he is, get the info, go to that...
Sep 15, 20258 min read


Collapsing Red Sox, the not especially talented Arch Manning, the exposed Bill O'Brien, Bill Belichick stomps some Spiders, you can't win an MVP hitting .237, Mookie Betts' rebound
Sunday 9/14/25 It's happening with the Red Sox. The fall. They're in trouble now. Only two games up for the final Wild Card spot. Alex...
Sep 14, 20255 min read


Stairs (new record) + art (Beatles, Orson Welles, rare ghost story novel, Doors, Star Wars, H.G. Wells) + communications
Saturday 9/13/25 We've made ours a world in which people are only capable of being interested in themselves, despite virtually no one now...
Sep 13, 20259 min read


Charlie Kirk
Thursday 9/11/25 Obviously Charlie Kirk was a terrible person. You know what? Most people--almost all--are terrible people. If you think...
Sep 11, 20257 min read


The world in ten people
Thursday 9/11/25 It's three in the morning. I'm working. I stopped and took a look at Threads. One look. Two minutes. If you're not an...
Sep 11, 20254 min read


Excerpt from piece on the disturbing 1966 film, The Black Cat, an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story
Tuesday 9/9/25 This is good. Written this morning. Despite what’s tantamount to a subgenre of macabre offerings suggesting otherwise,...
Sep 9, 20252 min read


Aroldis Chapman should be the AL Cy Young winner for his historic season
Tuesday 9/9/25 I'm now of the belief that Aroldis Chapman should be the AL Cy Young award winner, allowing that he keeps up what he's...
Sep 9, 20255 min read


New England Patriots: That's a bad operation right there, not the answer at quarterback, and a coach whose head is packed with meat
Monday 9/8/25 Watched the Patriots get it handed to them yesterday in a game that was not as close as the final score suggested, which...
Sep 8, 20258 min read


All rarin' to go
Sunday 9/7/25 Went to Charlestown yesterday all rarin' to go and do ten circuits in the Monument. I'd worked on a story, written a piece...
Sep 7, 20257 min read


Buy in
Saturday 9/6/25 More mortar but a tidy morning--thus far--and I will touch on yesterday morning, too. Further work this morning on...
Sep 6, 20252 min read


Mortar
Friday 9/5/25 I have all of these entries to get up on here. Entries that are about one primary thing. Idea. Person. Place. The intention...
Sep 5, 202510 min read


Broadcaster idiocy, couch zombies, obesity and football fandom, the Red Sox' title chances, the eye of the needle that is baseball's HOF, the worsening legacy of Bill Belichick, Arch Manning
Tuesday 9/2/25 There's an old baseball maxim that one should never make the first or third out of an inning at third base. But you know...
Sep 2, 202512 min read


There when the door opens
Saturday 8/30/25 On Thursday I was in Charlestown standing outside of the main door of the Bunker Hill Monument waiting for it to open in...
Aug 30, 20255 min read


Who is the most underrated player in baseball history?
Saturday 8/30/25 There isn't an actual single accurate answer to the question of who is baseball's most underrated player, and even if...
Aug 30, 20257 min read


The most remarkable statistic of the 2025 MLB season, the NL Cy Young and the AL MVP races, two surprising Red Sox
Wednesday 8/27/25 Paul Skenes is going to win the NL Cy Young award with a record under .500, isn't he? He will win it, whatever his...
Aug 27, 20256 min read


Movement, physicality, in-person things: Visit with family, stairs setbacks and successes, the alcohol front
Monday 8/25/25 Well, I need to get back to this journal, don't I? I've been away a lot, because I've not been doing much. It's harder and...
Aug 25, 20257 min read


Op-ed on stairs in the New York Daily News and letter to the rangers at the Bunker Hill Monument
Wednesday 8/20/25 I had an op-ed on stairs run (you get it) in the New York Daily News, which I wasn't aware of until well after the...
Aug 20, 20252 min read


Stair history, another extrapolatable metaphor for how we are now from inside the Bunker Hill Monument, and a liar is served some humble pie
Friday 8/8/25 I've taken a while in getting to this, but didn't want to leave it any longer so that I can move on with other matters...
Aug 8, 202513 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: A letter to Rebecca Barden, editor of Bloomsbury's BFI Film Classics series
Wednesday 8/6/25 This will suffice for now. More later. Here is a letter I sent today to Rebecca Barden, who is the editor of...
Aug 6, 20254 min read


Breaking down the latest Red Sox surge
Wednesday 8/6/25 All the Boston Red Sox do is win! Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but they have won seven in a row and just as importantly,...
Aug 6, 20257 min read


Getting going, a letter, and a sidebar about Susan Morrison of The New Yorker
Friday 8/1/25 I've had a tough time getting going lately. I'm not writing enough. There's so much to do and it feels like there is so...
Aug 1, 202510 min read


Caveat emptor, Patriots fans!
Thursday 7/31/25 A most curious thing--well, to me--has blanketed the New England region here in the doggiest days of summer, this...
Jul 31, 20255 min read


more-eh-so
Thursday 7/31/25 It was ninety-eight degrees (which set a record for the day), but I was heartened on Tuesday to see that the fall decor...
Jul 31, 20258 min read


Shannon Sharpe, rape, and "discipline"
Thursday 7/31/25 Shannon Sharpe is a rapist, and all of these people--including lots of women--take to social media to remark that this...
Jul 31, 20253 min read
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