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Many Moments More


In which I am called a "young punk" (and an asshole)
Friday 7/4/25 The temperature is a bit cooler today, there's a breeze and less humidity, so I ran ten circuits of stairs in the Bunker...
Jul 4, 20253 min read


Wouldn't worry about it
Friday 7/4/25 "Am I overreacting to my wife's work crush?" Nah, it'll probably be fine. Wouldn't worry about it. The things that people...
Jul 4, 20259 min read


Jarren Duran's poor defense, possible Red Sox All-Stars, Bruins boners, punting Celtics
Friday 7/4/25 Red Sox left fielder Jarren Duran has six errors thus far this season (one came while playing center field) and a fielding...
Jul 4, 20256 min read


New Substack, meta post, lost tooth, how most publishing people are the truth's bitch, music, film, literature, flowers, a wedding, and more
Tuesday 7/1/25 My niece Lilah fainted yesterday. My sister told me she was probably overheated and dehydrated but I will check on her...
Jul 2, 202513 min read


Most sites like mine
Monday 6/30/25 You can't make a person who doesn't care care. You can't make a bad person be a good person. I write, I create, I think, I...
Jun 30, 20256 min read


Dave Parker's place in baseball history
Sunday 6/29/30 Dave Parker, baseball great, died the other day. He is a member of baseball's most recent Hall of Fame class, which is due...
Jun 29, 20254 min read


Dark days for Boston sports
Saturday 6/28/25 The Red Sox came home from a dismal road trip and got it handed to them last night at Fenway 9-0 by the Toronto Blue...
Jun 28, 20253 min read


Pithy Beatles thoughts
Friday 6/27/25 A Hard Day's Night is the Beatles' best album. Sgt. Pepper has become overlooked because of how little we think now/are...
Jun 27, 20253 min read


A Jim Shepard story in The New Yorker, publishing's classism, the endless lies to self, an Alex Cora truism, tips for watching bad horror movies
Friday 6/27/25 I looked at a Jim Shepard story in The New Yorker today called "The Queen of Bad Influences," which comes from his story...
Jun 27, 20258 min read


Prose off with a medical twist: Typical cardboard fiction in The Threepenny Review put forward by Wendy Lesser--whose rapper name is revealed within--v. Fleming story
Thursday 6/26/25 I heard a rumor that Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser's rapper name is the bag of hag, which is a reference to her...
Jun 26, 202510 min read


Are you watching my glow up?
Thursday 6/26/25 Post seen this morning: You’re not witnessing a glow up. You’re witnessing a return. To who I was before the world told...
Jun 26, 20252 min read


Move like someone who never loses
Wednesday 6/25/25 I've noticed where people mention in their bio on social media something about bariatric surgery. Then they post before...
Jun 25, 20257 min read


Sherlock Holmes notes: The worst death in the canon and the detective story most likely to make you smile
Tuesday 6/24/25 In the Holmes and Watson stories, people die by gunshot ("The Dancing Men"), stabbing ("The Second Stain"), poison ( A...
Jun 24, 20256 min read


Gonna get hot
Tuesday 6/24/25 Did five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument Sunday. Ten would have been better, but the air was thick and I...
Jun 24, 20255 min read


Air strike, fiction, Paddington Bear, Lonnie Johnson, December dates, repeatedly being kneed in the balls, Prestige jazz, noir
Sunday 6/22/25 US launched strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. How bad is it if the world comes to an end at this point? I don't know...
Jun 22, 20255 min read


Prose off, If you had to sex the answer edition: Story in Conjunctions put forward by arrogant, log-rolling anuran Bradford Morrow v. Fleming story (are we yay about this?)
Saturday 6/21/25 I wrote yesterday that we'd be doing another Conjunctions prose off, the hardest thing about that being that when you...
Jun 21, 202512 min read


Underachieving Boston sports teams, why it's hard to be intelligent and a member of a hockey team, Cal Raleigh makes history, the most difficult sport of all
Saturday 6/21/25 I've heard people on the radio who know nothing about sports and who make a lot of money talking unintelligently and...
Jun 21, 20256 min read


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 20, 20254 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 20, 202510 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 19, 20255 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 19, 20258 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 17, 20254 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 17, 20257 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 17, 20256 min read
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