Monday 4/14/25 Observed today. *** "Welcome to my journey." Your journey towards what? The next post of a photo you took of yourself? The...

Sunday 4/13/25 If you say publicly and express it clearly what a person who is ultimately reliant on the ignorance and apathy of others...

Sunday 4/13/25 Alex Cora is the perfect manager for a team that could win 100 games without him. The Red Sox lost again yesterday to the...

Saturday 4/12/25 Days without stair running. Not good. Got up late today--five in the AM--and then was at the desk straight until three...

Wednesday 4/9/25 It's interesting how unintelligent some supposedly smart people really are, and how entitled people of prodigious means...

Wednesday 4/9/25 This is good. From a piece that I started today. Likely will finish tomorrow. Ten minutes of moving the fingers. *** The...

Wednesday 4/9/25 It's always easy to click on any work of fiction from The Paris Review and copy and paste any part of it for one of these prose offs. You're bound to get something pretentious, lifeless, stilted, boring. Have a tote bag Gertrude, indeed. Fossil-classist Emily Stokes gets off on this kind of stuff, dry gulch style. The inclusion of the right kind of miserable, entitled person. You can't really say, "Is there any fiction worse than what's in The Paris Review?"

Wednesday 4/9/25 When I listen to just about anyone talk about just about anything, I think that there is now next to no one who knows...

Tuesday 4/8/25 Been working this morning on "Hero of Mine"--which could both be understood by a five-year-old and thought about deeply...

Tuesday 4/8/25 My niece Lilah had a sleepover at Grammie's Saturday night--just her. Pretty exciting! She has been feeling, I'm told,...

Monday 4/7/25 A person can say just about anything they want if people don't or won't see the evidence. And that's what people do. In a...

Saturday 4/5/25 Just entering this into the record. David Sedaris, mocker of disabled people who believes they shouldn't have jobs if he...

Friday 4/4/25 My mother told me yesterday that she was going to lunch with a certain someone I knew, and when I asked if that someone was...

Friday 4/4/25 It's helpful to understand the ways in which the people of the publishing system behave. Remember: I am the bad guy, though...

Thursday 4/3/25 Do you understand how bad Joyce Carol Oates is at writing? I will help you understand. Here's how it works with Oates....

Thursday 4/3/25 I saw this post on Threads that quoted a racist moron at ESPN saying that Caitlin Clark is only what she is because she's...

Thursday 4/3/25 Walked three miles yesterday, did 100 push-ups, ran five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. While running...

Wednesday 4/2/25 In the 1954 film Them! --which is simultaneously one of the best horror films of the 1950s, one of the best sci-films, one of the best thrillers, an ecological parable, and a Cold War warning--there's a scene where a bunch of reporters fight for position to ask questions as to what's going. A bespectacled, balding fellow fires off a question, which was also the actor's lone line in the film. Horror and sci-fi fans are apt to do a double-take, because it seems

Wednesday 4/2/25 Speaking of Candy Land : My buddy Amelia/Ms. Weber is known as a notorious cheater when it comes to this game which,...

Monday 3/30/25 This woman who is in bed with all of these evil people in publishing got on my Instagram page, acted like the...

Sunday 3/30/25 In an industry loaded with frauds, bigots, people hooked up from the word "go," a Meghan O'Rourke still stands out....

Sunday 3/30/25 What's the worst start a player has ever had to a season in MLB? I don't know the answer, but I do know that Rafael Devers...

Sunday 3/30/25 The University of Minnesota Press--which, as we've seen, is a joke with their pandering George Floyd children's book ...

Saturday 3/29/25 How about a Saturday morning prose off beat down? Shall we? Yes, let's do it. Remember Paula Deitz , editor at Hudson...