Thursday 8/20/26 My freshman year of college at BC, there was this kid in my hall named Francois. He wasn't French in any obvious way. He was just some kid with a very French sounding name from New York I believe it was. Anyway, he was a big drinker. Right from the start, before the other freshmen had figured out how that all worked on campus and its environs. He knew where to get alcohol from the moment he arrived. During that first weekend, he popped off to another kid who

Thursday 8/20/26 There's no such movie rating as PG-ANAL I said to my younger self. Maybe there should be. Films and TV shows rely heavily now on cell phones to advance the plot and for exposition. You come away thinking they couldn't tell a story without them. Which is to say that they can't tell a story. Moving the camera in a circle around two people talking is annoying. What do you think this achieves dramatically? It's just something that's done because directors think i

Wednesday 8/19/26 I saw a post on Reddit the other day that someone had made pertaining to a woman who works security at the Leader Bank Pavilion in the Seaport. The person who made the post said that this security worker was rude to them, and now they were trying to get them harassed, fired, canceled. They didn't say that last part, but that is the intention. We live in a world where you can't say that something doesn't need saying, because people are that stupid and deplora

Wednesday 8/19/26 The Red Sox got a much-needed series win last night against the Diamondbacks. Something is off with that Arizona team. You see the lack of focus. Unfortunately for the Red Sox, Ranger Suarez wasn't good again. He got the win, but that was because the offense put up runs. With that win, he's 5-4. How was this guy an All-Star? Oh, I know--it's because people don't the know the game, and they just fixate on a given rate stat of the dashboard. He was okay for a

Tuesday 8/18/26 Dear best pal of mine Lilah, How is my favorite non-tyrant of a niece? I hope you had a wonderful summer. I receive many updates about you from your Grammie. And of course I ask about you often because I like you so very much. You likely won’t remember this, because it was from so long ago, but I had promised to send you a story, which I knew was going to be the story in this envelope. But sometimes, it can take a while to get something the best th

Tuesday 8/18/26 The Red Sox had a much-needed one-sided win last night in which just about everyone in the line-up had a robust, get-healthy evening. The team scored in six straight innings. Solo homer for Contreras, couple RBI for Abreu, three hits for Rafaela and Durbin (who's raised his average to .257). And most remarkably--these days especially: no Red Sox batters struck out. Anecdotally, and perhaps factually, or at least borderline factually, that's rarer than a perfec

Monday 8/17/26 Wasn't that long ago that the Red Sox seemed like they couldn't lose a game. Now it seems like they can't win one unless they get a dominant start from one of their clear-cut best two pitchers. They lost again to the Pirates yesterday for their third straight series loss in a row, all against sub-.500 teams, and concluded their road trip with a 2-5 record. They're 3-7 in their last 10 games. They can't score. They look an awful lot like the team they were befor

Monday 8/17/26 As I wrote earlier, I've been trying to run stairs every day without a break on account of feeling like I'm not doing as well with the stairs, whether that's because of me or the heat or both. It has been hard to get a gauge on where I'm at. My sense is that I have struggled more than in past times and that I shouldn't be struggling like I am, but it's also been an extremely humid summer, one of the most humid of my life, if not the most humid. We are scorching

Sunday 8/16/26 Often by this time in August there'll be some moment--and it's usually this flicker of a moment--where you get a taste, a twinge, a drop, a flash of autumn. A cold patch in some bit of shade you walk through on a sunny day with just a slight fringe of "brrr...."; a passing tang to the air. A pinch of that smoky aroma. Haven't had that yet in this soupy August. But it's coming up on three in the morning here in Boston and the temperature is 61 degrees and may di

Saturday 8/15/26 Sometimes when we say, "You're lying" to someone, we're doing so in the hopes that they'll prove us wrong. Mount an airtight defense. Beat back the assertion with this commanding shove of truth. But we already know. It really becomes a question of whether we want to lie to ourselves. The panegyrics so many people pen to themselves, day in, day out. Self-eulogizing post and/or statement after self-eulogizing post and/or statement and for having done nothing. "

Thursday 8/13/26 With last night's loss to the Blue Jays, the Red Sox have now dropped five in a row. It seems like the Red Sox are going to do what they can to piss away the lead the built up with their six-week spurt and not make the playoffs. The team currently in the last Wild Card position in the American League is the Texas Rangers, who are a game below .500. It's hard not to feel here in the earliest hours of August 13 that the Red Sox aren't going to give the teams cu

Thursday 8/13/26 When you understand people all too well, it makes sense to say, "I don't understand people." The above remark requires thinking through. That means practically no one could ever understand it because no one can think. If you post an intelligent comment on social media, the replies will prove that your comment wasn't understood in the slightest. Your comment could have been very direct. A remark of pith. You're limited anyway in how long it could have been if

Wednesday 8/12/26 The 2026 Boston Red Sox are a hard team to understand. They lost again last night, bringing their losing streak to four games. Rough night for Caleb Durbin going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and an error. It happens. Adley Rutschman had a decent game, going 1-for-3 with an infield hit and walking a couple times. I'd caution Red Sox fans with this player. He's been on the decline for some years now. This isn't the second coming of Carlton Fisk. He isn't even t

Wednesday 8/12/26 I had another nightmare about Molly last night. This one featured night scenes. In one of them, we were at the gym during the evening. Why, I have no idea. But dreams don't need to make sense in that manner, do they? The sense they make can be in other areas. I don't go to the gym, of course. My gym, as such, is outside. And back then I didn't work out at all. I'm definitely not proud of that. I was using the bench press and trying to lift more weight than I

Tuesday 8/11/26 You want to be a good team, not a team that had a mid-season run. The Red Sox have now lost three in a row to weak teams. People talk like the playoffs are a given. I’ve seen posts about what the postseason rotation should be. You can’t assume like that; it’s contrary to the nature of baseball. They need to halt this skid. Be a good team. Uninspired play from the Red Sox over the weekend, losing both of their games to the Athletics. Can't be dropping a series

Tuesday 8/11/26 I go online this morning and the first item in the Trending Now category that neatly summarizes our social, cultural, and human devolution without meaning to reads, "Brad Pitt resumes drinking." Now, I have no doubt that Brad Pitt is a terrible human being, but really? Each ostensibly simple thing, of however few words, says so much about where we're at now, even if no one reading that simple thing of few words can understand this. And what a horrible way to f

Monday 8/10/26 I'd say that this summer has had the worst weather of my life. What one feels outside isn't just "weather." It's a result of what we're doing to the planet. The weather feels unnatural because it isn't natural. This is beyond, "It's summer." It's frying the earth. The Bunker Hill Monument hasn't been open in days. Even though I had been hard at it on Saturday on the fitness front, I saw that the website for the Monument didn't say the Monument was closed. This

Sunday 8/9/26 The Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League will be playing their home games at BU's Agganis Arena this upcoming season instead of in Lowell. Many of their fans don't like this because now it means getting in and out of Boston with all of the inconvenience that entails, but it works out well for me and now I can go to some games. Could even walk there. That's a wonderful old arena. Saw the Hockey East women's championship there a few years ago. I

Saturday 8/8/26 We'll put that right in the title of one of these entries. Write that down. Learn it. Remember it. Share it. Spread the word. For nothing is more true about true art. If there is no life in the thing, it isn't art. For example: All MFA writing and almost all current writing in the world, practically all of which is done--at the acclaimed press, the "revered" literary magazine that is unknown outside of that far flung gated community at the most remote points o

Saturday 8/8/26 Are bees the best liked insects? Would they be--not a pun--if their name didn't start with a "b" and they couldn't be described as busy bees? Or without the honey factor? They can sting, yes, but that's not held against them all that much, the feeling being that they only do so if they absolutely have to, unlike wasps, who are bad sorts and will seize the sting opportunity. Bees buzz. They get a lot of good PR out of alliteration. Buzz in glades. Anyone or any

Friday 8/7/26 We must be waiting for the barbarians because I know we're not waiting on humidity given that it's already infiltrated the gates here in Boston. Where else but the Many Moments More journal would one get a J.M. Coetzee weather joke? This is some barbaric humidity, though. My Monument efforts have largely been stalled this week. I've been displeased with my effort in all phases of my life--which means my work/art, my attempts to keep living, and the stairs, becau

Friday 8/7/26 It's impossible to think in conversational metrics of "hot takes" or preface any remark with the words "hot take" (which is akin to both a formal announcement of one's stupidity and that an example of this is now forthcoming) or use the term within a statement and not be a moron. One can cease to be a moron if one wishes to make the effort, because being stupid, sounding stupid, and not thinking are usually a choice, even if the person is too stupid to understan

Friday 8/7/26 Recently I saw some statements by Ben Affleck regarding drinking. He talks about drinking a lot and what he says I often find to be quite harmful in just how wrong it is. This time he was saying that the only way a person can stop drinking is by... Well, it doesn't really matter how he finished that thought. It's already a dangerous thought. An unhelpful thought. After I stopped drinking, I became acutely aware of how many people said that the manner in which I

Wednesday 8/5/26 Shake some action. It's what you need. You do more you feel better. You do less you don't. August is a good month because you can look forward to fall and Christmas and you don't have to be sad that fall and Christmas are almost over or already over. But it's also easy to feel good about fall and Christmas in April because they're really not close to being over and they're behind you enough that they're ahead of you again. But I also feel that way about them