Tuesday 3/26/24 Boston Bruins coach Jim Montgomery laid into his team, saying they don't look like they're ready for the playoffs, citing...

Monday 3/25/24 If you have to try and convince yourself that something is right, it's not. Get it right. The end is the most important...

Monday 3/25/24 Things are going to be very business-like right now. After five years, it looks like my ordeal with the IRS that was...

Saturday 3/23/24 Basically been working since two something this morning, but have checked out some of this Iowa/Holy Cross game in the...

Saturday 3/23/24 Encountered the following from someone online regarding Roxane Gay and her ilk. By ilk, I do not mean the morbidly...

Saturday 3/23/24 BC took the hammer to UMass last night with eight unanswered goals and BU soundly beat Maine, so the two rivals will...

Saturday 3/23/24 What follows are responses I found on the internet from people who read James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. They are useful...

Saturday 3/23/24 Heard this yesterday: "I literally love it." Not how that works. Seeing a lot of this construction lately: "I actually...

Friday 3/22/24 Stayed up late watching basketball. Bad C-Dawg. What does that really mean? The games were on, I was monitoring them,...

Thursday 3/21/24 I could point out something like this 100 times a day with "professional" magazines. This is writing now. What you see...

Thursday 3/21/24 Each day there is less personality in the world than the day before. Each day there is more narcissism in the world than...

Thursday 3/21/24 I'll have more to say going forward about Tales of the Texas Rangers, because it's one of our very best radio series,...

Thursday 3/21/24 The men's NCAA basketball tournament begins today--or at least as how I think of it--and this caused me to reflect on...

Thursday 3/21/24 It had looked like a solution had been found regarding this bad school situation and my friend's daughter. It's a...

Wednesday 3/20/24 Wrote a Beatles feature. Need to be more productive tomorrow. Have an idea for a minimum I want to get done. A number...

Wednesday 3/20/24 The masterpiece bell. Another one done: "Why I Hate My Friends." On to the next. "These are things I turn over in my...

Wednesday 3/20/24 Boston College defeated a diminished Providence team last night in the NIT to advance. I don't know--I think that's...

Tuesday 3/19/24 I walked six miles, did 100 push-ups, ran 3000 stairs. Hadn't spoken to a certain buddy of mine in at least a couple...

Tuesday 3/19/24 What we're going to do this time is take the excerpts from theoretically different stories, from theoretically different...

Tuesday 3/19/24 Let's just get to the pasting, shall we? We don't need an exordium. This is from Jamel Brinkley's "Wolf and Rhonda" from...

Tuesday 3/19/24 Are the most storied, traditional sports rivalries imperishable as rivalries? Or can they become non-rivalries in which...

Tuesday 3/19/24 Woke up with another headache. That's every morning now since I started wearing this night guard. Feeling like this isn't...

Monday 3/18/24 I think that to the intellectual, the historian, the music aficionado, and the person who cares about being better...

Monday 3/18/24 Woke up with slight headache this morning, the kind that passes quickly. Improvement? I applied some essential...