Tuesday 2/13/24 Writing a piece now on the 1948 film adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Should have had this done a while...

Monday 2/12/24 Michael Ray, editor in chief of Zoetrope, is a bad person who made the mistake of thinking he could get away with behaving...

Monday 2/12/24 I'm looking at these miserable old-timers in an NFL history group on Facebook debate if Patrick Mahomes is on the "Mount...

Monday 2/12/24 A publicist sent me this email looking for coverage: The War Room Tavern in Albany is hosting a Taylor Swift luncheon on...

Monday 2/12/24 These are just some photos I took yesterday morning on my way to City Hall to run stairs. That's Paul Revere's house and...

Monday 2/12/24 The Chiefs got another Super Bowl win and it went the way one would have expected it to. Someone asked me what I thought...

Sunday 2/11/24 Did another 100 push-ups yesterday to bring the day's total to 300 and also walked five miles to go along with the six I...

Sunday 2/11/24 Got after it a fair amount this weekend but will need to do far better. I see that Ralph Malph is on The Love Boat. The...

Saturday 2/10/24 The problem, if you're one of these people doing what you're doing and refusing to stop doing it, is not going to go...

Saturday 2/10/24 Just going to document this here because I would like to make note of it. It's ten past ten on Saturday morning right...

Saturday 2/10/24 I'm a touch surprised that the Forty-Niners are favored in tomorrow's Super Bowl. They're fortunate to be there given...

Saturday 2/10/24 All of the loud, drunk people outside at two in the morning. Go home. At Christmas I'd written that in the very early...

Friday 2/9/24 Late start today. My bad. Just wrote a Valentine's op-ed on love. This is from it: “Love” is a word that we use all the...

Thursday 2/8/24 Just wrote a 1500 word piece on the Beatles. 300 new words were added to "Why I Hate My Friends" today. Obviously there...

More work today on "Why I Hate My Friends." Unclassifiable masterpiece. There's no fiction like this, plain and simple. I should be done...

Thursday 2/8/24 Prior to this season, I'd never heard the period after the NHL All-Star game referred to as the second half of the...

Thursday 2/8/24 Writers of ghost stories often seem to have a need to set down their thoughts on what a ghost story ought to be. Algernon...

Wednesday 2/7/24 There are people who write very little and who don't write well and don't spend much time or effort in working at...

Wednesday 2/7/24 Nothing too notable here. Bookkeeping stuff. Every now and again its seems worthwhile to say a quick something about the...

Tuesday 2/6/24 I should write a piece on the Beatles' "Tell Me Why." Ran three miles, did 200 push-ups. Texted friend's wife who had a...

Tuesday 2/6/24 Unfortunately, the BC-BU semifinal Beanpot game last night went as I had expected it to. These are both such strong teams...

Tuesday 2/6/24 This is a letter I sent to someone over the weekend: Dear Ms. Zipfel, How are you? I was checking something last night...

Monday 2/5/24 This is one of Elvis Presley's favorite gospel groups, and maybe they'll now be one of yours. Not religious? It doesn't...

Monday 2/5/24 Monday morning. Awake early, take out the trash, come back inside and do push-ups by the mailboxes, do more push-ups in the...