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The end of the World Series
Thursday 11/2/23 The Texas Rangers won the World Series last night, and come this time next year, I might not remember that. I just don't...
Nov 2, 20233 min read


Notes on James Whale's Frankenstein pictures
Wednesday 11/1/23 I have watched James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) a couple more times lately....
Nov 1, 20234 min read


Jack Edwards, a strange man
Tuesday 10/31/23 After the Bruins defeated the Florida Panthers last night in overtime, Jack Edwards exclaimed, "Throw the cat off the...
Oct 31, 20231 min read


Halloween itinerary
Tuesday 10/31/23 It's a chilly Halloween morning. I have much to get to, so I can't stop and tarry long here, but I thought I'd assemble...
Oct 31, 20234 min read


Keep it moving
Monday 10/30/23 Productive last couple of days plus. Much worked on, a lot coming out, and more people about to be exposed on here in...
Oct 30, 20232 min read


In professional sports, it's the "usually" that matters
Monday 10/30/23 Whenever I see anyone talking about Mac Jones, I end up laughing, because it really does seem like I'm the only...
Oct 30, 20232 min read


Excerpt from piece on extant "A Day in the Life" recording session footage
Sunday 10/29/23 We watch, and it feels like anything could happen at a session that doubled as once-in-a-zeitgeist party, with Beatles, a...
Oct 29, 20233 min read


How far will an unhinged editor go to suppress an author?
Saturday 10/28/23 Pretty far, is the answer. As we've seen, the editor Mark Warren is an unhinged man with an obvious anger problem. It...
Oct 28, 20233 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: Wren Graves of Consequence of Sound
Saturday 10/28/23 A while back I sent a pitch for a piece about the new John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy release to Consequence of Sound, an...
Oct 28, 202310 min read


The first of a number of horror entries for Halloween 2023
Friday 10/27/23 Trying to do a lot and get much in, but I did want to try and do a few horror-related entries on here in the lead-up to...
Oct 27, 20233 min read


Health and drink
Friday 10/27/23 I said to someone the other day that I was going to go on Google and type in, "Signs I'm an alcoholic," and see how I...
Oct 27, 20232 min read


Guns
Thursday 10/26/23 You shouldn't have a gun. No one should have a gun. I'm sure you can figure out how to live your life without a gun....
Oct 26, 20231 min read


Make sure you have those professional photos, authors, or else you're not really an author
Thursday 10/26/23 Here's something I've noticed via Facebook. You have all of these pretend writers. People with no ability, who don't...
Oct 26, 20233 min read


Celtics, hockey, low win totals for WS teams, best big game pitcher of last five years, Mac Jones
Thursday 10/26/23 Didn't think much of that Celtics performance last night. All of this talk about how good you are, how complete you...
Oct 26, 20237 min read


"What Are You Going to Do?" short story excerpt
Wednesday 10/25/23 People speak a lot about privilege as this thing that you have that you probably don’t deserve. At least that seems...
Oct 25, 20232 min read


Writing: What is action? What is drama? What's quiet?
Tuesday 10/24/23 I've been meaning to wrap this up: using my recently completed story, "You Can Have That," which will be in The Solution...
Oct 24, 202311 min read


Cart carry, contractors, tour guides, cold Sam Adams (-es)
Tuesday 10/24/23 At what some would call early on Saturday morning, I was running stairs at City Hall when an elderly Asian woman started...
Oct 24, 20234 min read


Generally reliable outward indicators of weakness
Tuesday 10/24/23 There are exceptions and contributing factors (age, health, debilitating life forces) which can moot most of the...
Oct 24, 20231 min read


New love song, new story, front and center, sister, Paul Lewis concert
Saturday 10/21/23 When you write a controversial, progressive new love song like "Damn, You Big, Bitch," which I spent the morning doing,...
Oct 21, 20233 min read


Look how ridiculous this is
Saturday 10/21/23 Here's what you'll see authors post on social media: screenshots of news of their book deal as reported on Publishers...
Oct 21, 20232 min read


"I Big Girl," short story excerpt
Saturday 10/21/23 This was going to be the night when Abigail did what only a big girl could do. She’d made up her mind earlier that day...
Oct 21, 20234 min read


The thing about rockets
Thursday 10/19/23 How do people not know that the $ goes on the left side of the number? People may become incapable of knowing anything....
Oct 19, 20233 min read


A word about email notifications, which are now basically nonexistent
Thursday 10/19/23 Yesterday I saw an email that had come in almost a couple weeks ago, informing me that I was out of notification emails...
Oct 19, 20234 min read


My niece
Wednesday 10/18/23 My sister texted me yesterday to say that she and my three-year-old niece, Amelia, had just seen three crows chase off...
Oct 18, 20232 min read
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