Tuesday 6/4/24 This will escalate from here, but let's get things started with The Wall Street Journal with a letter sent to editor Eric...

Tuesday 6/4/24 This is comedian Stan Laurel talking about writers who come out of MFA programs: "These people aren't talents, or even bad...

Monday 6/3/24 That would be Dave Kingman. I have a joy for Dave Kingman, he who is almost universally maligned by those who know his name...

Monday 6/3/24 Tax collector kindly called me this morning before eight on account of me being sufficiently freaked out that I had left...

Monday 6/3/24 Hendrix is the most Lisztian of rock musicians. The first intention of each is to dazzle. That's why they may not connect...

Sunday 6/2/24 Crying. Been working more on "The Bird." Reading it aloud. Again. Then again. Just the beauty of the thing. Thinking about...

Sunday 6/2/24 If I were to be asked what I believe that people want most in another person in their lives, I would answer by saying...

Saturday 6/1/24 Will Middlebrooks is a brutal listen on Red Sox games. Tanner Houck has been superb this season, though. Deserves full...

Saturday 6/1/24 As I said, most of this book is written. It's about the ordering now and writing two or three more things for it. The...

Saturday 6/1/24 Yesterday's mail--which I got this morning--had a letter from the Department of Revenue saying they're going to be taking...

Saturday 6/1/24 "Think of me as a rare book...filled with wisdom, humor, and a few plot twists. Not everyone gets a chance to read my...

Friday 5/31/24 I have this op-ed about MLB absorbing the stats--those that are available--of the Negro Leagues, which has overhauled the...

Friday 5/31/24 Downloaded Albert King's The Big Blues, his 1962 LP on King. A great label. It was Little Willie John's as well. King, of...

Thursday 5/30/24 I get so many things like what you're about to see from so many presses where we see revolting people trying to trade on...

Thursday 5/30/24 Before we get into some real-life rancidity with Granta's mindless, entitled, fake as can be, classicism obsessed,...

Thursday 5/30/24 Was up late--wrote a whole new story. Back at it now--writing an op-ed about the Negro Leagues. Glanced at Facebook this...

Wednesday 5/29/24 A problem with people is that almost everyone wants to be something they're not, but even if they could be that thing,...

Wednesday 5/29/24 Started a Beatles feature. Will finish it tomorrow. Also need to finish the Dracula piece, which I'm mulling placing...

Wednesday 5/29/24 The Red Sox beat the Orioles 8-3 last night. That's good--I feel like the Red Sox are frequently overmatched against...

Wednesday 5/29/24 I don't know how I managed to do this--though manage I did--but over the weekend I watched the whole of the 2021 Amazon...

Tuesday 5/28/24 Several times a week, on baseball history Facebook groups, I'll see old men post the video clip below of Hal McRae--what...

Tuesday 5/28/24 This is a photo I encountered. Not sure who took it, but it's from Kenmore Square sometimes in the 1960s. Behind where...

Tuesday 5/28/24 Fitness-related numbers have not been logged here of late. They've been rather pedestrian and hardly worth mentioning....

Tuesday 5/28/24 In watching the Rangers-Panthers game on Sunday, I had a number of thoughts. These are the two best teams in the Eastern...