Wednesday 5/14/25 The people who order other people to automatically believe other people. Trend followers, sympathy seekers. Almost all...

Tuesday 5/13/25 When someone texts me, AI writes potential responses. I'm sure it does this for you, too, but I don't see your phone now,...

Tuesday 5/13/25 Now do the push-ups properly. That's a lot harder, isn't it? The average Sherlock Holmes story is 8000 words long. John...

Monday 5/12/25 There's a baseball history discussion forum that I follow--I don't post, I just read. When I'm not doing anything--though...

Monday 5/12/25 Here's how social media works and the world as well, and you might want to say, well, that's social media, but the world...

Saturday 5/10/25 Producer George Martin, who was not a fan of what was happening with the Beatles themselves and how they were--or...

Saturday 5/10/25 I don't do this every day starting at three in the morning, but some variation of it. I awoke at 2:50 this morning to...

Friday 5/9/25 There's nothing quite like an outstanding audience tape. They put you back in the room in which that gig occurred and may...

Friday 5/9/25 Is it really a suicide mission if everyone is going down anyway? The host site informed me--it tells me; I don't ask--that...

Thursday 5/8/25 It has always been this way. There has almost exclusively been what you see in these pages from the people of publishing...

Wednesday 5/7/25 I never do this. I'll probably take this down shortly because I can't be giving things away, but sometimes, you have to...

Wednesday 5/7/25 At the end of every school year, Ms. Moriggi’s class had a friendship day. Each student wrote their name on a piece of...

Wednesday 5/7/25 The Red Sox lost again last night, being drubbed 6-1 by the Texas Rangers. The Sox struck out another 12 times. 3 each...

Sunday 5/4/25 Sitting here this morning working on a story when I thought, you know, why don't we go to Granta 's webpage and do a prose...

Sunday 5/4/25 I encounter all of these comments from people saying they're dating with intention. These are also really boasts (Query:...

Friday 5/2/25 “There’s not a lot that you don’t already know,” God continued, “but one thing is that the retention of the security...

Friday 5/2/25 "Absolutely heartbroken to hear about the Pope's passing. A man who spent his life championing the tenants of Christ." Ah,...

Thursday 5/1/25 I've been sitting here the last few days grinding away--just doing the work--on Nightmares Be Damned: Writings About...

Thursday 5/1/25 Very few sports people would know this because they tend not to read anything, let alone have they ever read Shakespeare,...

Thursday 5/1/25 The Hound of the Baskervilles is the best of the four novels and a candidate for the best work in the Holmes canon. It's...

Tuesday 4/29/25 I feel like you have to be a sucker to care that much about the NFL draft. P.T. Barnum would see you coming from a mile...

Tuesday 4/29/25 "The literal face I make when..." Why must we talk like this? What is that "literal" doing for you? As opposed to the...

Monday 4/25/25 Today is my niece Lilah's birthday. She is nine. Unlike her older brother, she likes to read. (It is too early to know...

Monday 4/28/25 Yesterday, unfortunately, was a hang on day. There's no reason for me to live. From a personal standpoint. I didn't sleep...