Sunday 2/4/24 Was talking to my mom last night, and she was like, "I kept getting this alert on the computer that I was low on space, so...

Sunday 2/4/24 There is nothing about the art of writing--by which I really mean the making of art with writing--that could ever get old...

Sunday 2/4/24 Is the sound of any band so distinctly demarcated by year as that of the Grateful Dead? You hear a few bars of music and...

Sunday 2/4/24 I'll begin today with a baseball trivia question that is not really trivia because in order for something to be trivia...

Saturday 2/3/24 Been listening today to Pink Floyd at the Fillmore West in April 1970, Captain Beefheart at Avalon in 1966, the Vaccines'...

Saturday 2/3/24 Of course you can dance about architecture. So much of writing is architecture, math, music, and dancing. Wash, draw,...

Saturday 2/3/24 Some of the Sherlock Holmes stories that I like the best have a fairly low mystery quotient. I'm thinking of works like...

Saturday 2/3/24 Soon there's going to be a new component to the site that features the publishing people who have themselves been...

Friday 2/2/24 I've been making a point of listening to many episodes of the CBC radio program, Nightfall, which ran from 1980 to 1983....

Friday 2/2/24 The more well-rounded one is as a person and thinker, the better a writer and artist one can be. Publishing people are...

Thursday 2/1/24 Early. Cold. Lot of work to do today. Pitched something on the Beatles. Something else on the Patriots. Someone told me...

Wednesday 1/31/24 Okay, back to normal. What was he up to before? Probably up to something. Yeah. Probably. The rats are running scared....

Wednesday 1/31/24 Don't you think? She sure knocks it out of the park. No player in MLB history has had the name Antony. There have been...

Wednesday 1/31/24 J. Robert Lennon--bad writer and practitioner of discrimination, who has been accurately called out on both scores--has...

Wednesday 1/31/24 I was reading this piece where the writer was asserting that a walk is as good as a hit in baseball, that he had become...

Tuesday 1/30/24 A song of purpose for people of purpose: the 1976 version of the Flamin' Groovies' "Shake Some Action." You'll notice the...

Tuesday 1/30/24 Saw yesterday that Jimy Williams died, aged eighty. He managed three teams--the Blue Jays, the Astros, and, of course,...

Tuesday 1/30/24 I look at Substacks for the gathering of information. Sometimes gathering information is simply seeing what people do, or...

Monday 1/29/24 I had suggested in these pages that the Ravens' Zay Flowers could be a breakout star next year, but he really cost his...

Monday 1/29/24 In what world am I not supposed to write an all-timer of a story before half past five in the morning and then listen to...

Monday 1/29/24 C: Belichick won't coach again J: At a Ravens party now C: They're not good C: Lamar Jackson wildly overrated C: Say that...

Sunday 1/28/24 Ran 5000 stairs in the rain, then the sleet, then the wet snow. The weather progression. Can't say that was a good time....

Sunday 1/28/24 What kind of person posts a David Brooks column like it's a good thing? All of the words of this ongoing journal exist in...

Sunday 1/28/24 Ted Williams was second on the 1950 Red Sox in steals and he never got caught! He went 3-for-3. The team stole 32 bases...