Monday 4/22/24 What people think are the simple things are not simple things. They are complex things and people should spend more time...

Monday 4/22/24 Watched The Seventh Cross, a Fred Zinnemann film from 1944 with Spencer Tracy who plays a man escaped from a German...

Sunday 4/21/24 Will get back at everything in a few hours. Need to do better, work harder. These are important days. A lot of fitness...

Sunday 4/21/24 C: I wrote a story for the kids and will mail it to them. Sister: That's so nice! C: It's called "Death Is Like a Monster...

Sunday 4/21/24 Let's say that in your career as a major leaguer, you did the following: Led the league in home runs six times Led the...

Sunday 4/21/24 Have gotten into this before, but let us be very succinct. People use the terms "jealousy" and "envy" interchangeably, but...

Sunday 4/21/24 Bigger Hitchcock is lesser Hitchcock. He's better when he's quirkier--and when he's British. I am always writing. There is...

Saturday 4/20/24 Writers: Start fast, end epically. There are all kinds of ways to start fast and end epically. Creating total immersion...

Friday 4/19/24 I'd like if it could be September to December year round. Today is pretty good, though, so far as spring goes: upper...

Friday 4/19/24 I have quite a few entries regarding sports history to get to which I should set about doing. There's just so much to...

Friday 4/19/24 The other day I went to Salem. It's very easy for me to get there. I don't have a car and won't until I get my house in...

Friday 4/19/24 The most condescending people are often the least intelligent. David Remnick and Sigrid Rausing would be good examples....

Wednesday 4/17/24 I've been watching and studying quite a few avant-garde and animated short films of late, ranging from Stan Brakhage to...

Wednesday 4/17/24 Well, here we are. The Bruins' regular season has come to a close and the playoffs--and the Toronto Maple Leafs--await....

Wednesday 4/17/24 Taxes are done, but had to deal with the illegal activities of an insane racist who defaulted on payments to many...

Tuesday 4/16/24 I finished five new short stories today, including the one I wrote on Saturday. How about a paragraph from one of them?...

Tuesday 4/16/24 Mother to her child: It's only 9:30 in the morning and you're already wild. Child: What time am I supposed to be wild?...

Tuesday 4/16/24 Kevin Barry serves as the New Yorker's token white Irish guy (complete with little hat, assortment of indoors scarves,...

Tuesday 4/16/24 This journal is and does a lot of things. One thing it does is make a case against bad, incompetent, often very stupid,...

Tuesday 4/16/24 Health report. I think I'm doing as well as I have been in a long time physically. The commitment to eating better along...

Sunday 4/14/24 It seems of late that I am always awake and yet I've rarely been tired. I must attribute this in part to the way I have...

Saturday 4/13/24 My prediction was a poor one! Bad prognosticating, C-Dawg. Oh well. It's 2-0 Denver after two. BC has nothing going on....

Saturday 4/13/24 I've gone hard today in all ways. Will get into that later. Good production and effort, though. Right now I'm simply...

Saturday 4/13/24 Just after midnight. The new week begins. Let's work. Why do weeks start for me on Saturday? I'm alone, I'm in a war,...