Saturday 5/24/25 If you're doing something good that other people aren't doing for reasons that are personally best for you to be doing...

Friday 5/23/25: A scene from several days ago: It was almost nine in the morning and and quieter than usual for that time. I could hear...

Tuesday 5/20/25 Speaking of The Atlantic , as we did the other day , we'll now return to it in a different, oblique manner, but it...

Sunday 5/18/25 The following is an exchange between myself and a professor/writer after they saw the entry yesterday about the emails I...

Saturday 5/17/25 My mother picked up my buddy the other day from preschool. She said, "Colin wanted me to say hello to you for him."...

Saturday 5/17/25 Just circling back to make sure you saw my email below about WordCraft's upcoming launch. I think it’s a really unique...

Friday 5/16/25 This will be in Nightmares Be Damned: Writings About Horror Films Worth Staying Up For . *** Angela gets bullied by the...

Thursday 5/15/25 Like I said, this is really good. It's from "Just Pants," which is likely to be in Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid...

Thursday 5/15/25 AI wants me to write about "The lost art of storytelling in modern literature." I haven't been working/trying hard and I...

Wednesday 5/14/25 The people who order other people to automatically believe other people. Trend followers, sympathy seekers. Almost all...

Tuesday 5/13/25 When someone texts me, AI writes potential responses. I'm sure it does this for you, too, but I don't see your phone now,...

Tuesday 5/13/25 Now do the push-ups properly. That's a lot harder, isn't it? The average Sherlock Holmes story is 8000 words long. John...

Monday 5/12/25 There's a baseball history discussion forum that I follow--I don't post, I just read. When I'm not doing anything--though...

Monday 5/12/25 Here's how social media works and the world as well, and you might want to say, well, that's social media, but the world...

Saturday 5/10/25 Producer George Martin, who was not a fan of what was happening with the Beatles themselves and how they were--or...

Saturday 5/10/25 I don't do this every day starting at three in the morning, but some variation of it. I awoke at 2:50 this morning to...

Friday 5/9/25 There's nothing quite like an outstanding audience tape. They put you back in the room in which that gig occurred and may be the closest we get to a rock and roll-based time machine. The best audience tapes have a warmth to them. Their sound is enveloping. The crowd, too, can be a factor. Certain bands--and I'd say the Grateful Dead more than any other--used the crowd as part of their own dynamic and music-making. Jerry Garcia said that on the nights when it was

Friday 5/9/25 Is it really a suicide mission if everyone is going down anyway? The host site informed me--it tells me; I don't ask--that...

Thursday 5/8/25 It has always been this way. There has almost exclusively been what you see in these pages from the people of publishing...

Wednesday 5/7/25 I never do this. I'll probably take this down shortly because I can't be giving things away, but sometimes, you have to...

Wednesday 5/7/25 At the end of every school year, Ms. Moriggi’s class had a friendship day. Each student wrote their name on a piece of...

Wednesday 5/7/25 The Red Sox lost again last night, being drubbed 6-1 by the Texas Rangers. The Sox struck out another 12 times. 3 each...

Sunday 5/4/25 Sitting here this morning working on a story when I thought, you know, why don't we go to Granta 's webpage and do a prose...

Sunday 5/4/25 I encounter all of these comments from people saying they're dating with intention. These are also really boasts (Query:...