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...

Friday 5/10/24 You said to be honest. Honestly I don’t see what you’re so upset about. What did you think was going to happen? Like you...

Thursday 5/9/24 There are many Gunsmoke radio episodes without Kitty (Georgia Ellis) or Doc (Howard McNear). I was trying to think of any...

Thursday 5/9/24 A book about a single song: the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me." Fred Astaire, the various versions, the...

Thursday 5/9/24 Normally what happens with a prose off is we have a single entry containing bad work by a bad writer pitted against work...

Thursday 5/9/24 Good. *** In a place where no actual blood was spilled—at least to my knowledge—my grandmother’s house proved...

Thursday 5/9/24 Spent the evening with various Radiohead shows from 2003 and 2006. About to write two new horror film pieces. Bruins got...

Wednesday 5/8/24 My sister sent me a video this morning of my buddy dancing to some tunes on a bed. She gets into this dancing and at...

Wednesday 5/8/24 Mike Trout has one double after twenty-nine games. The Red Sox have gotten about the best starting pitching they've ever...

Wednesday 5/8/24 I know how much we're all enjoying the work of some masters of fiction lately, so I thought we'd take a look at the...

Wednesday 5/8/24 I can say one positive thing about The Paris Review right now: At least probably no one is getting Lorin Stein-ed on a...

Tuesday 5/7/24 What is the appeal of bigotry? What does it do for a person? And yet what we see with bigots is how important their...

Tuesday 5/7/24 Listening to a lot of Gunsmoke and reading quite a bit of M.R. James. Heard two consecutive Gunsmoke episodes--by air...

Monday 5/6/24 I had something off with me today. I've had a headache since about two AM, and then I was rather cold, enough so that I...

Monday 5/6/24 Walked past a guy yesterday outside of a lobster place on Atlantic Avenue who was wearing a Barstool sweatshirt, sucking on...

Monday 5/6/24 The Bruins advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a Game 7 OT win over the Leafs on Saturday night, which...

Saturday 5/4/24 Now's a good time to look at Charlie McAvoy's game a bit more, via his playoff numbers, which show what a non-factor this...

Friday 5/3/24 The curse of the 65 wins lives on. With their Game 6 regulation loss on the road, the current edition of the Bruins...

Thursday 5/2/24 If you want to be impressed sometime, take a look at Frank Robinson's OPS+ for every single year of his career. If the...