Intimidate All Witnesses
Saturday 8/12/23 I don't do it myself, but I like when people sign off their correspondence with a "warmly"--it's a nice way to be. You...
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Colin Fleming
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Many Moments More
- Aug 10
- 3 min
Is this the best defensive season a catcher has ever had?
Thursday 8/10/23 Catchers and pitchers are apt to understand mortality better than other baseball players. A pitcher can be all done for...
- Aug 10
- 3 min
Kinks
Thursday 8/10/23 This is from a feature on the Kinks' The Great Lost Kinks Album that I'm finishing up this morning. It will go into the...
- Aug 10
- 6 min
A to B
Thursday 8/10/23 I have a friend who isn't efficient, though they often talk about becoming more so. I love my friend, but they create...
- Aug 10
- 4 min
Jemele Hill and the Low Bar Olympics
Thursday 8/10/23 Is there a better example of a racist, village idiot checkbox hire/career than what one sees with Jemele Hill? Saw she...
- Aug 8
- 4 min
Rainy day odds and ends in between other things
Tuesday 8/8/23 Paul Lewis is performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in October. I'd like to get a ticket to that Friday matinee. A...
- Aug 7
- 7 min
Unfreedom trail
Monday 8/7/23 Ran 5000 stairs yesterday at City Hall. There was a woman's shoe on the stairs of my building between the first and second...
- Aug 6
- 7 min
"You did the sport?"
Sunday 8/6/23 I was waiting outside the barber shop on a bench the other day to get my haircut. There are two benches in front. On the...
- Aug 6
- 3 min
"Lord of the Edge," short story excerpt
Sunday 8/6/23 He practices his comedy routine in his head, which contains words he dare not say aloud, but then again, if he got on a...
- Aug 6
- 6 min
End of the 2023 Red Sox
Saturday 8/5/23 Much more important things to get to than this, but it just happened so I'll take care of it quickly. Today marks the day...
- Aug 5
- 8 min
You get to pick one
Saturday 8/5/23 When a person says, "It's not about me," what they almost always mean is, "It's totally about me! Hooray for me!" Be...
- Aug 4
- 6 min
The Red Sox and where they stand (or sit) after the trade deadline
Friday 8/4/23 I spoke too soon about Justin Turner and his value to the Red Sox. He may end up--in his age thirty-eight season--having...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
My dentist
Friday 8/4/23 On Wednesday, I took the commuter rail to see my dentist, Dr. Raffi. That's a truncation of his very long name--he's from...
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Well, if that doesn't do the trick!
Thursday 8/3/23 I saw this photo on Facebook of a woman I'm friends with--in the social media capacity, that is--on a beach in a bathing...
- Aug 2
- 4 min
"The Science of the Thing," short story excerpt
Wednesday 8/2/23 There’s a scientific explanation to why there’s dew on the grass in the morning, but even though someone could explain...
- Aug 2
- 8 min
Stair crew
Wednesday 8/2/23 Yesterday I went out to run stairs later than I usually do. I would like to get better at doing things at different...
- Aug 2
- 5 min
A good writer cannot be replaced
Wednesday 8/2/23 Read Clifford D. Simak's Way Station from 1963, a kind of blending of science fiction and nature writing. Good idea, but...
- Aug 1
- 3 min
On a beach in Bethany
Tuesday 8/1/23 C: None of this shit is for readers. Readers no longer exist. It's all for the talentless, broken freaks of the writing...
- Aug 1
- 5 min
Harbinger leaves
Tuesday 8/1/23 And so we come to August, the last of the summer months. As my weeks begin on Saturdays, I consider September 1 the start...
- Jul 31
- 3 min
Going up
Monday 7/31/23 It was eleven years ago Saturday that I had my little adventure on my first and only day to date in California, when I...
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