Monday 1/22/24 The Buffalo Bills excel at finding ways to lose by being stupid. Back when the Bills were, I believe, a sole game above...

Sunday 1/21/24 Don't you love what you know is about to happen here when you see the phrase "prose off" in the title of one of these entries? You have no doubt, right? There is going to be a mega-pasting in which we see an excerpt of a bad story by a bad writer obliterated by a comparison with an excerpt from a story by the best writer. We know that the former was put forward by bigots plainly discriminating against that best writer. It's not subjective. It's not, "Well, I co

Sunday 1/21/24 A couple days ago was the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe--right here in Boston, where Poe went on to build up large stores of...

Sunday 1/21/24 Four in the morning now on this Sunday. Been at it for a little bit. I received another letter about David Remnick,...

Saturday 1/20/24 Was sent this big catalogue to a baseball memorabilia auction. I wonder where they got my info. A 1933 Ruth Goudey, 1953...

Saturday 1/20/24 Some small things from today that I have liked and found warming. Was at the cafe a while ago making notes for things I...

Saturday 1/20/24 Same idea as the entry pertaining to football, only with baseball this time. A batting glove under one's fielding glove....

Saturday 1/20/24 Things are about to get rather intense on here--or resume in their intensity, perhaps I should say--and some bad people...

Friday 1/19/24 I have much to get to with the bigoted and talentless J. Robert Lennon, a professor at Cornell who is the editor of the...

Friday 1/19/24 Nice win by the Bruins last night against MacKinnon, Makar, and the Avalanche at the Garden. If I could pick a Stanley Cup...

Friday 1/19/24 Outstanding baseball player who has never been talked about enough: Larry Doby. Dominique Wilkins was my guy as a kid. I...

Thursday 1/18/24 For the last few days I've been working on "The Ghost and the Flame." This is a major work. I should be done soon. I...

Thursday 1/18/24 Just filling in the blanks of some recent fitness matters. On Friday I ran 3000 stairs and did 100 push-ups. On Saturday...

Thursday 1/18/24 It's not quite as prevalent now--but there's still plenty of it going on--but there was a time when any mention of...

Thursday 1/18/24 It's nice to see that the San Antonio Spurs are even worse this year than they were last year. Gregg Popovich is among...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I heard a man in Jerod Mayo without a plan. Without a vision for how this team will play. At least not yet. I also...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I just spent nine straight hours writing. Now I will run stairs. But first I will rhetorically ask: Can one drum better...

Wednesday 1/17/24 Over the past several days, I've been listening to dozens of episodes of the old time radio program, The Hall of...

Wednesday 1/17/24 If the characters are real, they will tell you, as the author, the story. The story is theirs, not yours. I will see...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I think the Packers have a decent chance to knock off the Forty-Niners this weekend. They're playing loose, feeling no...

Tuesday 1/16/24 A different entry involving stairs. On Sunday morning, while running stairs, I FaceTimed with the kids, but mostly...

Tuesday 1/16/24 I would say that there is no one who would rather just be left in peace than I. I don't want confrontation, I don't want...

Monday 1/15/24 Franklin: Tidings, lads. Bartender: I'm fifty. Franklin: Who isn't? Why does he look like he's about to slit his wrists?...

Monday 1/15/24 Listened to A Hard Day's Night yesterday. Listening to it a lot lately on account of work on Giving You Everything: A Hard...