Wednesday 8/12/26 The 2026 Boston Red Sox are a hard team to understand. They lost again last night, bringing their losing streak to four games. Rough night for Caleb Durbin going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and an error. It happens. Adley Rutschman had a decent game, going 1-for-3 with an infield hit and walking a couple times. I'd caution Red Sox fans with this player. He's been on the decline for some years now. This isn't the second coming of Carlton Fisk. He isn't even t

Wednesday 8/12/26 I had another nightmare about Molly last night. This one featured night scenes. In one of them, we were at the gym during the evening. Why, I have no idea. But dreams don't need to make sense in that manner, do they? The sense they make can be in other areas. I don't go to the gym, of course. My gym, as such, is outside. And back then I didn't work out at all. I'm definitely not proud of that. I was using the bench press and trying to lift more weight than I

Tuesday 8/11/26 You want to be a good team, not a team that had a mid-season run. The Red Sox have now lost three in a row to weak teams. People talk like the playoffs are a given. I’ve seen posts about what the postseason rotation should be. You can’t assume like that; it’s contrary to the nature of baseball. They need to halt this skid. Be a good team. Uninspired play from the Red Sox over the weekend, losing both of their games to the Athletics. Can't be dropping a series

Tuesday 8/11/26 I go online this morning and the first item in the Trending Now category that neatly summarizes our social, cultural, and human devolution without meaning to reads, "Brad Pitt resumes drinking." Now, I have no doubt that Brad Pitt is a terrible human being, but really? Each ostensibly simple thing, of however few words, says so much about where we're at now, even if no one reading that simple thing of few words can understand this. And what a horrible way to f

Monday 8/10/26 I'd say that this summer has had the worst weather of my life. What one feels outside isn't just "weather." It's a result of what we're doing to the planet. The weather feels unnatural because it isn't natural. This is beyond, "It's summer." It's frying the earth. The Bunker Hill Monument hasn't been open in days. Even though I had been hard at it on Saturday on the fitness front, I saw that the website for the Monument didn't say the Monument was closed. This

Sunday 8/9/26 The Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League will be playing their home games at BU's Agganis Arena this upcoming season instead of in Lowell. Many of their fans don't like this because now it means getting in and out of Boston with all of the inconvenience that entails, but it works out well for me and now I can go to some games. Could even walk there. That's a wonderful old arena. Saw the Hockey East women's championship there a few years ago. I

Saturday 8/8/26 We'll put that right in the title of one of these entries. Write that down. Learn it. Remember it. Share it. Spread the word. For nothing is more true about true art. If there is no life in the thing, it isn't art. For example: All MFA writing and almost all current writing in the world, practically all of which is done--at the acclaimed press, the "revered" literary magazine that is unknown outside of that far flung gated community at the most remote points o

Saturday 8/8/26 Are bees the best liked insects? Would they be--not a pun--if their name didn't start with a "b" and they couldn't be described as busy bees? Or without the honey factor? They can sting, yes, but that's not held against them all that much, the feeling being that they only do so if they absolutely have to, unlike wasps, who are bad sorts and will seize the sting opportunity. Bees buzz. They get a lot of good PR out of alliteration. Buzz in glades. Anyone or any

Friday 8/7/26 We must be waiting for the barbarians because I know we're not waiting on humidity given that it's already infiltrated the gates here in Boston. Where else but the Many Moments More journal would one get a J.M. Coetzee weather joke? This is some barbaric humidity, though. My Monument efforts have largely been stalled this week. I've been displeased with my effort in all phases of my life--which means my work/art, my attempts to keep living, and the stairs, becau

Friday 8/7/26 It's impossible to think in conversational metrics of "hot takes" or preface any remark with the words "hot take" (which is akin to both a formal announcement of one's stupidity and that an example of this is now forthcoming) or use the term within a statement and not be a moron. One can cease to be a moron if one wishes to make the effort, because being stupid, sounding stupid, and not thinking are usually a choice, even if the person is too stupid to understan

Friday 8/7/26 Recently I saw some statements by Ben Affleck regarding drinking. He talks about drinking a lot and what he says I often find to be quite harmful in just how wrong it is. This time he was saying that the only way a person can stop drinking is by... Well, it doesn't really matter how he finished that thought. It's already a dangerous thought. An unhelpful thought. After I stopped drinking, I became acutely aware of how many people said that the manner in which I

Wednesday 8/5/26 Shake some action. It's what you need. You do more you feel better. You do less you don't. August is a good month because you can look forward to fall and Christmas and you don't have to be sad that fall and Christmas are almost over or already over. But it's also easy to feel good about fall and Christmas in April because they're really not close to being over and they're behind you enough that they're ahead of you again. But I also feel that way about them

Tuesday 8/4/26 People in film noir excel at telling long stories after they’ve been shot and are dying. Their voices are cracked and fading at first, but then they're able to use their normal speaking voice for the next seventy minutes before the cracked and fading voice returns for a final sentence or two and they expire. They also have time/strength to make bitter jokes as asides during the telling of the tale, like they've budgeted this into their rate of blood loss. Ironi

Tuesday 8/4/26 Yesterday I saw where a teacher, who said she'd been teaching for a long time, remarked that it was that time of the year where she offered other teachers advice. Makes sense. It's still summer, but everyone is thinking about going back to school. It's the autumn of summer, you could say. She conveyed this in a friendly manner, and you could take or leave her advice, but it was there if anyone had use for it. As I usually do, I thought, "Hmmm, maybe I can learn

Monday 8/3/26 The greatest sense of urgency I've ever heard evinced in a work of musical art occurs around the midpoint of the Grateful Dead's version of "Truckin'" at the Capitol Theatre on 11/8/70. It sounds like something greater than life or death is at stake, which is why I believe they opted to follow it with “Dark Star.” With the audiences going absolutely nuts, the Grateful Dead tailored their versions of "Dark Star" at the Capitol Theatre on 6/24/70 and 11/8/70 to su

Monday 8/3/26 I certainly didn't do better with the stairs yesterday. I'm face down in a dark rut. It's one thing to have no reason to live. It is another to know this. It is another still not to have a reason to live, to know this, and be unable to force one's self to rally anyway, by which I mean, do anything. Lift a finger. Move. Go through what one knows are the hopeless motions of trying. It was another extremely humid day. Seventy degree dew point once again. The weathe

Monday 8/3/26 I had a nightmare last night in which I was at college at the start of it. I've had a lot of nightmares like this over the past year. My good friend from when I was in college was in this dream. I didn't really have any others in actuality. Some people I knew, yes, but not close friends. My first two years of high school were the same. Then, we moved the summer after my sophomore year. I went to an all boys school for the last two years and had no friends. In th

Sunday 8/2/26 "...which he vehemently denies..." That's usually the play, right? You'll often find that someone accused of doing something they didn't do will do something different than just vehemently denying it. The more someone waves their finger--literally or metaphorically--the less they usually know or the more they're trying to keep hidden. The CVS on Hanover doesn't have Halloween items out yet, which amounts to a mild disappointment for me. It makes me sad when I se

Sunday 8/2/69 I've been doing a bad job with stairs and fitness things of late. I feel like that's been the case for a while. Definitely not where I want to be or should be. Yesterday I don't even know what I was doing and put up this weird stat line: six miles walked, seventy push-ups, and just two circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. I wasn't feeling it and didn't feel like it. There were a lot of people at the Monument and it was another very humid day--seventy

Saturday 8/1/26 This isn't the most important thing here, but I just want to say it: I love how Caleb Durbin plays baseball. That is a ballplayer. He picks it at third, he runs the bases with smarts, he understands what a situation requires, he drives the ball, he sacrifices, he bunts for hits. You play the game the right way, sir. If this guy finishes at .250 with 18 homers and 65 RBI and wins a deserved Gold Glove, then that'll really be something after how he started. I wa

Friday 7/31/26 People would rather do less than anything else. Doing less is more important to them than being happy, healthy, loved, intelligent, and fulfilled. Given a choice, almost everyone will elect to do less rather than more or just the same. No matter what that costs them and how much it lessens the quality of their quality of life. This is one of the innumerable things I'm up against. Because I need people to want to do more. To want to be better. To be more fulfill

Friday 7/31/26 Calling yourself an "ally" in your Instagram bio is usually an indication that you're not a sincere person. Convictions for you are talking points, rather than the things by which you live and embody. You're also betraying the hierarchical way in which you actually think about people. What are the most dominant forms of human behavior in our world? Insincerity. Sloth. Inconsistency. Projection. Insecurity (with good reason, considering how we choose to live and

Thursday 7/30/26 Got some needed sleep. Ready to go hard again. The razor is charging. Haven't shaved in three or four days. About to be remedied. Sometimes there's a person who would be so easy to blow up, but they're such a nothing, such a failure in whatever they do and as a person, they're just so low, and they have no bearing on you--in terms of, say, blocking your path--and they're more like a gnat that even the other gnats hold lower than the standard gnat, and you als

Wednesday 7/29/26 Started work at three this morning, left around nine for Charlestown. Was raining--not hard--while I waited within the portico of the lodge for the Monument to open for the first time since Sunday. I was earlier than usual. I wanted to think. I watched a hawk circling the hill and thought, "Yes," as I kept my eye on him. Didn't go to bed until fairly late last night. More and more, when I do get up, I don't have to enter the log-in code with the computer bec