I see you every goddamn day
Tuesday 9/12/23 If there was a racist Hall of Fame, Jemele Hill would get in on the first ballot with like 83.7% of the vote. She might...
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Many Moments More
- Sep 11
- 4 min
Amelia
Monday 9/11/23 I am equally fond, of course, of my nephew and my two nieces--whose names occur in "Best Present Ever" near the end--but...
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Giver
Monday 9/11/23 “She’s back,” the nurse observed. The doctor wanted to respond with something snappy, but also playful, to lighten the...
- Sep 11
- 3 min
My (dissenting) assessment of Mac Jones's opening night performance
Monday 9/11/23 People are very simple. They see that Mac Jones threw for 300 plus yards against a team that was good defensively last...
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Expending
Saturday 9/9/23 This is grueling. Finished two more stories. Overhauled one from a couple years ago this morning called "The Giver of...
- Sep 8
- 10 min
Writing and connection
Friday 9/8/23 A couple days ago I wrote about a story I'm working on called "You Can Have That" in an entry about how using an ostensibly...
- Sep 8
- 3 min
Two of the most richly human sequences in cinema c/o Scrooge (1951) and A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Friday 9/8/23 I wanted to talk about richly human sequences in cinema and it wouldn't have felt right to do so without citing the part...
- Sep 6
- 2 min
No cross
Wednesday 9/6/23 Remember that nearly everyone has an agenda--now more than ever--and very rarely does their motivation come from a...
- Sep 6
- 4 min
Notes about the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper
Wednesday 9/6/23 Listened to the mono version of Sgt. Pepper recently. It makes the record more of a rock and roll concern than the...
- Sep 6
- 12 min
"The": Insight into writing from a single, "simple" word in a story
Tuesday 9/5/23 These are some lines from "You Can Have That," a story which is going to be in The Solution to the World's Problems:...
- Sep 6
- 3 min
Unsold Olbermann/mental illness op-ed
Tuesday 9/5/23 Mental illness as a putdown. Lambasting someone as mentally ill is one of the more curious aspersions of our vituperative...
- Sep 4
- 2 min
A little dart pub in Dallas and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death
Monday 9/4/23 It's eight in the morning and I've been working for eight hours already. Now I'll run stairs and later I'll go to the...
- Sep 2
- 3 min
Favorites
Saturday 9/2/23 Favorite place: Rockport, MA Favorite season: Autumn Favorite holiday: Christmas Favorite book: William Sloane's To Walk...
- Sep 1
- 2 min
Wiser sun
Friday 9/1/23 M.R. James would get together with a buddy in his or their rooms, and they'd pull the curtains and pretend it was dark out...
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Why is there so little self-awareness?
Friday 9/1/23 Dashing around, getting much done, but will quickly put this here. Typical what one sees in this photo. This is many...
- Aug 30
- 4 min
Beatles, high school, practice squad
Wednesday 8/30/23 At the point where just accounting for/documenting what I've been writing of late is going to be like writing a piece....
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Story, stairs, cuts, managers
Tuesday 8/29/23 Wrote a 3000 word short story and ran 5000 stairs today. That was by 12:15. Don't know what I have with the story, but...
- Aug 29
- 3 min
Maybe somewhat less than cheering thoughts on the Red Sox and Patriots
Tuesday 8/29/23 Chris "the bitch" Sale did his fake manly contrition act after sucking for the latest time last night. I detest this Red...
- Aug 28
- 3 min
Margs, quaternities, faith, missing link Beatles, stairs, work
Monday 8/28/23 Woman informed me that among her passions in life is getting "margs." Okay. And then I was done again. "So, Colin, as you...
- Aug 28
- 6 min
Tapestry not threads
Monday 8/28/23 A children's book that's for adults and not children. A real one, not a novelty one. And not because of foul language or...
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