Monday 12/30/24 Will get into more of this later, but this was an excellent month of art-making. I really produced. Every month is, but...

Monday 12/30/24 The Patriots were drilled 40-7 on Saturday by the Chargers. I didn't even know the Patriots were playing and only came...

Sunday 12/29/24 It's still the Christmas season and I haven't had time to get up some things I'd like to get up, so will be tending to a...

Saturday 12/28/24 A text to my sister on Christmas Eve. They take this form as a joke when I ask her to pass something on to the...

Friday 12/26/24 I am, as Bob Cratchit said, behind my time. There's a lot to get done, so I'll be quick here. On Wednesday I spent what...

Monday 12/23/24 In a society where no one knows anything, there's nothing to stop/check/slow the spread of ignorance or the...

Sunday 12/22/24 You can make someone care in so few words if they're the right words. True words that belong where they are, doing what...

Sunday 12/22/23 Had to go back to the Apple store yesterday where a kindly, knowledgeable woman helped me out. They send you a form after...

Saturday 12/21/24 I am handicapped by the computer which I must restart from the power strip at least six times a day. I lose hours each...

Thursday 12/19/24 “Can people walk their dog on the beach in winter?” “They can, but not as many do. It gets windier on a beach than it...

Wednesday 12/18/24 Twenty-five films were added to the National Film Registry for preservation, including 1953's Invaders from Mars ,...

Tuesday 12/17/24 Many people attempt to trade in their pain for an online following and, in doing so, trade away a life for an online...

Tuesday 12/17/24 Bill Belichick is the new head football coach of UNC. When I first heard this was a done deal before it was officially a...

Monday 12/16/24 I watched some of Son of Lassie last night. That's a good dog to have on your side, same as his mother. Those Nazis...

Sunday 12/15/24 The two insipid women who live across the hall had a party on Friday night, or a gathering, anyway. These are the women...

Saturday 12/14/24 I have hot water for the first time in I think three weeks as of yesterday and was able to take a shower without a game...

Wednesday 12/11/24 Monday night I came up with a story idea and I knew it was special. I lay in bed and thought it through, knowing it'd...

Saturday 12/8/24 For a single set--albeit a voluminous set--of Christmas music, the best may very well be Deutsche Grammophon's five-disc...

Wednesday 12/4/24 We've talked in the past about Narrative Magazine , which publishes the same shit all of these places publish, by the...

Wednesday 12/4/24 The Red Sox signed Aroldis Chapman to a one-year deal. I don't like this at all. I don't like the kind of guy Chapman...

Monday 12/2/24 A reminder and a recommendation, because it's that time of year: Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe adapted...

Friday 11/29/24 How about a Black Friday prose off? We'll circle back to Harper's and their now former editor Christopher Beha. Things...

Wednesday 11/27/24 People are almost always reliant on what is happening in front of them to be able to say anything. That is, they...

Sunday 11/24/24 Awoken at one in the morning by drunks in the street. Really smart conversations. Nice to hear such intelligent people...