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Many Moments More
Get it right
Friday 6/20/25 Checked out the list of recordings added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry in 2025. I had somehow...
Jun 204 min read
How is this life? How is this even possible? How is this all there is?
Friday 6/20/25 The right title is often two words long. Plenty of times it isn't, but but that doesn't change that it often is. Rarely is...
Jun 2010 min read
"Extra" reading: Books I discovered in school either through teachers or their encouragement or the freedom they gave me
Thursday 6/19/25 About a month and a half ago, I saw this post made by a teacher about this gifted child in her class who finished his...
Jun 195 min read
Nightmare, the vestigial, stairs, lost wallet, McDavid, Red Sox front office, core American music box sets, Veneta "Dark Star," film noir
Thursday 6/19/25 Had another nightmare about my ex-wife last night. A lot of trauma. I was in Greenwich Village, it was pouring, needed a...
Jun 198 min read
Emergency procedure
Tuesday 6/17/25 Monday was a mostly lost day. Last week--I believe it was Thursday--I awoke with pain in what I believed was my last...
Jun 174 min read
Prose off "Let's go again" edition: Typical uselessness and AI-indistinguishable writing from clip joint American Short Fiction v. Fleming stories
Tuesday 6/17/25 American Short Fiction --a scam of an operation with multiple bigots running said scam--that we've talked about numerous...
Jun 177 min read
A historical stair-running performance inside of the Bunker Hill Monument
Tuesday 6/17/25 Saturday was Bunker Hill Day in Charlestown. It was a big celebration this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the...
Jun 176 min read
Why the Red Sox made the right move in trading Rafael Devers even if they are a pathetic organization
Monday 6/16/25 Red Sox fans are in an uproar following the announcement that the team had traded Rafael Devers to the Giants following...
Jun 168 min read
Prose off: Emily Nemens story in Lynne Nugent's The Iowa Review v. Fleming story, with cameos from Jessica Faust of The Southern Review and Michael Griffith of Cincinnati Review
Saturday 6/14/25 We've talked some about Emily Nemens in the past. She was editor at The Paris Review before current classist Emily...
Jun 1410 min read
The myth that the most important thing to do if you want to write is read, the actual truth about writing, missed day of stairs, badly burnt, edits, letters, Judy Garland, Powell and Pressburger
Friday 6/13/25 I didn't run stairs yesterday. I'd just written so much, you know? Which isn't to say that most of the times I run stairs...
Jun 135 min read
Tom Brady statue, the Vrabel bump, Drake Maye doubts, faulty sports fan memories, good basketball and declining interest, wild hockey and the biggest swing one way or the other in sports
Friday 6/13/25 The Patriots have announced the day their Tom Brady statue will be revealed at Gillette. I didn't know there was a Tom...
Jun 134 min read
A year and a half in the making
Wednesday 6/11/25 At 5:05 here on the morning of June 11, 2025, I officially pronounced "Friendship Bracelet," which was begun December...
Jun 112 min read
Prose off: Story in New England Review put forward by Carolyn "You're Just Not Very Good at Writing, Colin" Kuebler v. Fleming story
Tuesday 6/10/25 Let's return to New England Review and our friend Carolyn Kuebler, shall we? We've spoken several times about this...
Jun 1012 min read
Ruth and Jerry at the cafe, work, art, reading, music, film, television, radio, more stairs, baby rabbit
Tuesday 6/10/25 I saw something that moved me Sunday at the cafe after I'd gone there to read. These people were at the table behind me,...
Jun 109 min read
The fallacy that traded players are likely to re-sign with their old team, the myth about most NHL OT goals being fluky, why Auston Matthews should be a wing, how the Pacers can win, Red Sox surprise
Monday 6/9/25 It's very strange that when a player is trader from a team--and you encounter this kind of thinking more with baseball and...
Jun 95 min read
Bunker Hill Monument stair-running achievement unlocked
Monday 6/9/25 I have a number of goals regarding the stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument for the rest of the year. I don't like to do...
Jun 95 min read
Prose off: Story by Pulitzer Prize/Guggenheim winner Robert Olen Butler put forward in Narrative by husband-wife clowns/con artists Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian v. Fleming story w/Brad Morrow cameo
Sunday 6/8/25 Over time, I've become increasingly interested in the challenge of creating fiction that could be understood by a child and...
Jun 816 min read
Brad Marchand and breakaways; Tyrese Haliburton; the NHL's most egotistical coach; Chris Sale's HOF chances; Jacob deGrom v. Nathan Eovaldi; an amazing Mike Trout stat; best WR in Patriots history
Sunday 6/8/25 A sarcastic wag might say that Brad Marchand can score playoff breakaway goals for the Florida Panthers, he just can't...
Jun 85 min read
Prose off: Justin Taylor story that is exactly like every other Justin Taylor story b/c what else could he possibly do in n+1 put forward by system stooge-bigot Mark Krotov v. Fleming story
Saturday 6/7/25 If you've ever read a Justin Taylor short story, you know it's just him. It's always just him. Nothing is invented,...
Jun 713 min read
Unpopular parenting take
Thursday 6/5/25 No intelligent person has ever said, "We vibed" or "I'm a whole vibe." No intelligent person has ever said "finna" or...
Jun 58 min read
Creatives, Beatles experts, Sinners, The Studio, General MacArthur, high school nation
Wednesday 6/4/25 What are the odds that someone wearing a DraftKings sweatshirt--like the person I saw the other day on Hanover...
Jun 46 min read
The flight of a single bird in a single storm can be the single biggest thing in the world: Let's talk about a first sentence
Tuesday 6/3/25 On Friday, I began work on a story called "Honest Best," which is a classic Longer on the Inside story--that is, a story...
Jun 39 min read
Red Sox notes: Another season of godawful defense, the foolishness of comparing Betts and Devers, why the team should be open to trading Jarren Duran, and the play-by-play abilities of Dave O'Brien
Tuesday 6/3/25 The Red Sox committed two more errors last night in their 7-6 loss at Fenway to the Angels, which takes their AL-leading...
Jun 35 min read
"Are you the guy who goes up and down ten times every day?"
Monday 6/2/25 Some good and bad things on the fitness front. On the bad side: I'm not extending my runs up the Monument stairs. The...
Jun 27 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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