I wrote this story called "Tidy Sums." It's these two people having a discussion about how people only say "It's like how two and two...

Tuesday 7/23/24 I had talked about a new story called "Pass" in an earlier entry. As I mentioned, the story is six lines of dialogue and...

Tuesday 7/23/24 People who say they're all about "witty banter" annoy me. First of all, they're never witty themselves. Secondly, they...

Tuesday 7/23/24 This won't exactly be thrilling. Just logging some recent fitness doings. On Friday I did 100 push-ups, walked three...

Monday 7/22/24 The Grateful Dead and the Capitol Theatre. What was it about that place? A friend and I were talking over the weekend and...

Saturday 7/20/24 McCartney wrote songs that resound after the fact as part of a progression. We can hear what predated them in his own...

Saturday 7/20/24 The other day a friend texted me to say that someone who works for them was in a bad car crash and was barely hanging...

Friday 7/19/24 There are two ways, I'd say, that being a fan of a team is most gratifying, with one way being more gratifying than the...

Friday 7/19/24 I understand why Jaylen Brown is pissed about being left off the men's USA basketball roster as it obviously had nothing...

Friday 7/19/24 This is just a quick entry to say what's upcoming. There are going to be a few other entries on here about various...

Thursday 7/18/24 I wrote a story this morning called "Pass." I actually wrote it in my head in bed last night and typed it out this...

Thursday 7/18/24 I just don't feel like having a cat or cats should be one of the defining qualities of your life. As in, "Here is one of...

Wednesday 7/17/24 I didn't see any of the All-Star Game last night. As a kid, it was a must-watch affair for me. Sometimes I missed it...

Tuesday 7/16/24 I've been listening to what might be the greatest musical document I've ever heard, as in, the single best piece of music...

Tuesday 7/16/24 Regarding the affair--on the tax side of things--with The Wall Street Journal. I'll be getting out what I have to be...

Tuesday 7/16/24 An entry about the Red Sox at the break. People like grades for things outside of the academic context so here's my grade...

Tuesday 7/16/24 You know what there should be more of? Water fountains. It could be a Boston issue and not one elsewhere, but there are...

Tuesday 7/16/24 The example that follows is a tiny thing in and of itself, but it also speaks to people's attitude towards me. They are...

Friday 7/12/24 I have two Beatles pieces in progress to finish. One of them goes all the way back to May. Other stuff came up. These...

Friday 7/12/24 I'm charging up. Had to do some unpleasant things yesterday as preludes to other unpleasant things with publishing people,...

Thursday 7/11/24 In football, the name of the game is one game at a time. Basketball is a game of runs. In hockey, the name of the game...

Wednesday 7/10/24 Just accounting for some fitness. This will mostly be unexciting. These are awful weather days. Heat warning days....

Wednesday 7/10/24 C: This is what writing now is. C: Not writing. Writing is the last thing that writing is now about. J: It's disgusting...

Wednesday 7/10/24 But I won't right now. Maybe later. Over a short amount of time, I took some screenshots from Threads which give a very...