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Entrance music
Saturday 6/15/24 Was sitting here thinking about a possible cover for There Is No Doubt: Story Girls, when someone calls me and starts...
Jun 15, 20242 min read


Prose off: Another story from The Sun put forward by Sy Safransky because it made him cry v. Fleming story
Saturday 6/15/24 We can do this indefinitely--and with the nearest piece to hand--so let's do it again. But first allow me to dedicate...
Jun 15, 202411 min read


Prose off: Section from a story in The Sun v. section from a Fleming story
Friday 6/14/24 I'm the last person who wants for motivation, but if you desire to give me some, I'll take it. How about a prose with some...
Jun 14, 20247 min read


A letter from one Jonathan Hutchison on behalf of The Sun's Sy Safransky
Friday 6/14/24 Received the following letter this afternoon from someone named Jonathan Hutchison regarding The Sun and Sy Safransky and...
Jun 14, 20243 min read


Wonderful
Friday 6/14/24 Wonderful person number one: I'm a career coach using astrology. Oh. That sounds wise, valuable, and brilliant. Wonderful...
Jun 14, 20241 min read


You know what I could do?
Friday 6/14/24 I had said that I'm working on There Is No Doubt: Story Girls again. That has meant going through "Fitty," which is the...
Jun 14, 20244 min read


Names, street fights, titles, publishing awards
Friday 6/14/24 A lot of people have and use four names now. I see this all the time. And each name will be a giant name. That doesn't...
Jun 14, 20243 min read


How do you want to handle this?
Thursday 6/13/24 Started process last night of going back into There Is No Doubt: Story Girls and making what alterations and fixes need...
Jun 13, 20242 min read


Think of the milking
Thursday 6/13/24 Been listening to recordings of Michael Hordern reading the stories of M.R. James when going to bed. These have grown on...
Jun 13, 20246 min read


Celtics: Impressive
Thursday 6/13/24 Impressive win by the Celtics last night. Saw all of it. They're a team. In years past they were guys. I don't know how...
Jun 13, 20242 min read


Bob Cousy on Kyrie Irving, Tom Brady Night and team Hall of Fames, Jerry West
Wednesday 6/12/24 Ninety-five-year-old Bob Cousy had some excellent, penetrating comments about Kyrie Irving. Said he's not a superstar...
Jun 12, 20242 min read


Not actual
Wednesday 6/12/24 All of these people who go on social media, post a photo of their dog or cat, and then caption it like the animal is...
Jun 12, 20242 min read


What I think when I see a blank dating profile
Wednesday 6/12/24 Dating sites are horrible. The world is horrible and people are horrible, and it's all getting worse. Sometimes people...
Jun 12, 20245 min read


Cross-sport considerations and fancies
Wednesday 6/12/24 I'm mildly surprised that Willie Mays has a higher career on base percentage than Hank Aaron. I wouldn't have expected...
Jun 12, 20243 min read


Not having Twitter
Tuesday 6/11/24 I've found not having Twitter much better than having Twitter. It's just not good. None of that is good. There are people...
Jun 11, 20244 min read


Effort
Monday 6/10/24 I'm really letting down the side. My effort has been poor. I won't get anywhere like this. Not with everything I have to...
Jun 10, 20245 min read


Not more than a second
Monday 6/10/24 Watching Grantchester. Lazy, formulaic. Nothing is earned. You have to earn things in the work. The Grateful Dead, May...
Jun 10, 20242 min read


Body counts, Cokes, premonitions of death, compasses, believing, kings and queens
Monday 6/10/24 "Body count" is a horrible, low class term for number of sexual partners. It's used by the kind of person who also says...
Jun 10, 20242 min read


Red Sox slog, deserving All-Stars, the announcer's art, sweepers, good old batting average
Monday 6/10/24 Yesterday I watched all three hours and twenty-two minutes of the Red Sox-White Sox game in which Boston ground out an...
Jun 10, 20244 min read


A mother's rebuke
Monday 6/10/24 Why is it so important now for people to be crazy? I know that how we live now--and how we don't--and the internet and...
Jun 10, 20242 min read


There go the Sox, here come the Cats
Sunday 6/9/24 Having lost fourteen games in a row, the Chicago White Sox are now on a two-game winning streak thanks to the Boston Red...
Jun 9, 20243 min read


Battles
Sunday 6/9/24 It's always better just to be something than to seek attention as something. Wrote another story. That's three new ones in...
Jun 9, 20246 min read


Special summer letter to nephew and nieces
Saturday 6/8/24 Will be printing out "The Bird" and mailing it to my nephew and nieces in the next little bit and sharing it with some...
Jun 8, 20241 min read


Here again, there again, let's move forward, my friend
Saturday 6/8/24 A pound of tomatoes isn't as many as you think. Or maybe it is. Today is June 8. Coming up on three in the morning now....
Jun 8, 20242 min read
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