Friday 9/6/24 The air. The leaves. November. Reading William Sloane's To Walk the Night . Walking along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir on...

Friday 9/6/24 It was almost as if Fleer cards were trying to be ugly there for a while. The Fleer aesthetic was one of drabness,...

Wednesday 9/4/24 There's an episode of the radio program Gunsmoke  where Matt Dillon (William Conrad), talking to Chester (Parley Baer),...

Wednesday 9/4/24 It is autumn now, or at least what I consider autumn, so we will talk a bit about ghost stories (not that it has to be...

Wednesday 9/4/24 There's no way anyone thinks I'm stupid enough to not know what they're up to when they're up to no good, so how stupid...

Tuesday 9/3/24 I had nightmares last night that had me truly shaken up upon awaking. Unsettled and disturbed. I stayed up watching the...

Monday 9/2/24 We'll come back to this later. But this is the first sentence of "Get Yourself a Horse Cock," which is for Become Your Own...

Monday 9/2/24 Higher education is being told what to look at because you didn't know what to look at on your own. And usually it's not...

Sunday 9/1/24 A friend's daughter's friend's mother--and the mother's boyfriend--were found murdered the other day. They were shot...

Saturday 8/31/24 I had mentioned doing this many months ago, I believe, but I'm only getting around to doing it now, but here's my list...

Saturday 8/31/24 An observation: It's convenient--easy--for people to say that who a person allows in their life is a reflection on how...

Saturday 8/31/24 I incorrectly wrote the other day that the Red Sox had lost five in a row when technically they had only lost four in a...

Saturday 8/31/24 Heard the awful news about Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau yesterday when I was on my way to Charlestown. Then later I...

Friday 8/30/24 And I won't even be doing this one, it seems. *** Greetings. So: Had been planning to pitch you an Oasis piece circa now...

Friday 8/30/24 There is so much mental unwellness in the world. Mental health, across the board, has never been in so dire a place as it...

Thursday 8/29/24 Are there two more narcissistic, egotistical words than "My truth"? Can anyone actually be a person anymore, or is...

Wednesday 8/28/24 I find it almost impossible to take anyone seriously. Sports are so simple compared to the actually complex things, and...

Tuesday 8/27/24 Did I pinpoint exactly when the 2024 Boston Red Sox were done or did I pinpoint exactly when the 2024 Boston Red Sox were...

Monday 8/26/24 When I hear the first bird of the morning, I think, "Good for you," and I'm glad to hear that bird. I don't think what I...

Saturday 8/24/24 Why does the word "raging" so often come before the word "alcoholic"? You wouldn't say, "I was a raging consumer of...

Friday 8/23/24 I'm looking at this post where a meathead is advocating for how healthy burgers are. He has the word "fitness" in his...

Wednesday 8/21/24 I got some B-12 supplements. I'm not quite a vegetarian now, but I'm not very far off and it seemed likely I wasn't...

Wednesday 8/21/24 The artists whose work means the most to me at this point in my life are Laurel and Hardy, Judy Garland, Powell and...

Tuesday 8/20/24 That's because everyone is either Lying. Has an agenda. Is up to something. Wants something. Is seeking validation as act...