Monday 1/1/24 I know someone who gets drunk every New Year's Eve and texts me. I have the sound off on the phone. Last night I went to...

Monday 1/1/24 Inside of the Bunker Hill Monument, no one knows me. They have no sense of what I know. What I am able to do. What I do....

Monday 1/1/24 Closed out the year by attending Boston Ballet's penultimate performance--which is to say, the matinee--of The Nutcracker...

Monday 1/1/24 You have to try in this life--you have to make a concerted effort every day, an honest, get-after-it effort, no bullshit,...

Sunday 12/31/23 Twitter has proven that there is essentially no one in the world who can say anything intelligent and interesting in...

Sunday 12/31/23 A player being in the Hall of Fame--any of them--or not being in the Hall of Fame can come down to things far more...

Saturday 12/30/23 I have hundreds of things to tend to right now, so as I say, I can't stop and tarry over the likes of this, but I still...

Friday 12/29/23 This is an example of what I was talking about before with my Twitter game. Mark Lazerus. I saw that post which is below,...

Friday 12/29/23 This is the 2500th entry in the Many Moments More journal, which commenced in June 2018, and is what I have written...

Thursday 12/28/23 The Exorcist premiered on December 26, 1973, and for a while I've had a note about perhaps writing about it, but I...

Thursday 12/28/23 It's become fashionable for baseball historians--who typically know no more about the game than your average...

Wednesday 12/27/23 I don't want to delay with this any longer--it's very difficult keeping up with this journal in between doing my...

Wednesday 12/27/23 Sometimes you'll see a hockey team with a really good record, but perhaps it feels shaky to you. Like the team isn't...

Wednesday 12/27/23 Hitchcock's British pictures are far superior to his American ones, and so are some of his silents. I find myself...

Tuesday 12/26/23 The picture has a very high God quotient which is always overlooked. If it came out today, it may well be consigned to...

Monday 12/25/23 Another Christmas alone to get through however I must get through it, with work and with what I do on my own. Took the...

Sunday 12/24/23 I've decided that a book I'll be doing is about the 1964 Rankin-Bass special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which will...

Sunday 12/24/23 6. From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) He who was doubted and maligned by all is asked to help all. He accepts....

Sunday 12/24/23 Yesterday while between things--specifically, when racing home after running stairs to buy oranges at Haymarket and...

Saturday 12/23/23 None of the things in these pages that I state are happening are in my head--there's always visible evidence. As I say,...

Saturday 12/23/23 Yesterday I saw where a Red Sox fan said they were optimistic about the team for 2024 and going forward for a number of...

Thursday 12/21/23 Yesterday was a difficult day to hang on. I did not want to. But I am still here. I wasn't going to, but I worked more...

Wednesday 12/20/23 Somewhat rosier... I was at the Starbucks the other day. There were less than five people in there, and two guys in...

Wednesday 12/20/23 George Sanders killed himself because he was bored by life and people. No one had anything to say, let alone anything...