Friday 5/17/24 Patriots prediction in mid-May: They will be the worst team in the NFL next year. The Patriots' dynasty was a twenty-year...

Friday 5/17/24 A prediction: A lot of players will soon start getting into baseball's Hall of Fame with fairly slight career totals, at...

Thursday 5/16/24 Reread M.R. James's "The Mezzotint." His stories really were written to be read aloud to his friends. That's evident...

Thursday 5/16/24 I'm quite curious about this Rangers-Hurricanes game tonight. The Rangers were up 3-0, now it's 3-2, with this game...

Thursday 5/16/24 I definitely love when I'm running stairs, clearly working out, there is no shortage of people around, and five women...

Thursday 5/16/24 I was looking at a number of reviews of the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds and it is not possible to tell the...

Wednesday 5/15/24 I did a little detective work today to see if I could pinpoint a date to when I first saw 1931's Dracula--or, rather,...

Wednesday 5/15/24 I don't feel well. Stairs likely weren't a great idea. Nose is well blocked. Lots of coughing. There are so many...

Wednesday 5/15/24 I don't feel well but walked three miles, did 100 push-ups, ran fifty circuits on the stairs at the Connecticut gate...

Wednesday 5/15/24 I mentioned seeing 1953's Robot Monster on the big screen at the Brattle the other day, in 3D, no less. I must say, 3D...

Wednesday 5/15/24 I have some kind of something. Bug, cold, I don't know. COVID? I don't really believe in COVID as more than a bug or...

Tuesday 5/14/24 So we'll do the turn and burn thing and straight off into an entry about Jennifer Acker, who we just saw hooking up...

Tuesday 5/14/24 I had mentioned that there would be multiple parts to our consideration of editor and writer Carolyn Kuebler. There are...

Tuesday 5/14/24 Some health and fitness accounting. Awoke with a headache and sore threat. Need to shake them off. On Thursday I ran 1000...

Monday 5/13/24 The Beatles' BBC sessions. The versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star." Billie Holiday's sides with Teddy Wilson. The...

Monday 5/13/24 The NHL went to a best-of-seven first round format in 1987, meaning that for the first time there were four playoff...

Monday 5/13/24 I find that there is now virtually no one who can behave sanely, civilly, smartly, normally. When you say something like...

Monday 5/13/24 The Bruins were up 2-0 after one period last night, and I thought there was no way at all that Florida wasn't going to win...

Monday 5/13/24 Yesterday I went to Charlestown to run stairs at the Connecticut gate outside of the Bunker Hill Monument. Nothing new in...

Sunday 5/12/24 Best not to have the word "diaspora"--something I see all the time--in the title of your book, which doesn't need to sound...

Sunday 5/12/24 I don't expect to see the Bruins win another game this season. You can't win if you're getting 3 or 4 shots per period....

Sunday 5/12/24 I had so little confidence in the Bruins the other night that during the game I was actually watching a rebroadcast of a...

Sunday 5/12/24 Movie directors. Nay: Stanley Kubrick Francois Truffaut Ingmar Bergman John Carpenter Francis Ford Coppola Eric Rohmer...

Saturday 5/11/24 People who are envious of you just are not going to let you pass if they can help it. That is, if it's up to them. At...