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The 2025 Boston Red Sox: Time to reassess?
Thursday 7/10/25 The Red Sox have won six in a row and the World Series talk is back on with their fans. Or should I say, fans of a...
Jul 105 min read
Some competition
Thursday 7/10/25 My erstwhile five-year-old buddy has an ear infection so I sent her a text--via her mom--saying I hope she gets well...
Jul 108 min read
Prose off: Story by Laura Van Den Berg, as "one of them" as literary fiction people get, put forward in The Baffler by one of our favorite frauds, J.W. McCormack, v. Fleming story
Wednesday 7/9/25 Laura Van Den Berg is as one of these publishing people as you can be. Everything she writes is the same. Mannered,...
Jul 914 min read
Does art have to fail?
Tuesday 7/8/25 Does art have to fail? Does art have to be niche of a niche of a niche of a niche to the point of bordering on, and, for...
Jul 810 min read
Can't eat it so good
Tuesday 7/8/25 I find humans almost completely unfunny now as if they border on being incapable of being funny. Time and again I'll see...
Jul 85 min read
Nine years without a drink: The good and the bad
Monday 7/7/25 Ran ten circuits of stairs in the Monument on Saturday and five more on Sunday, and walked three miles Saturday, five on...
Jul 711 min read
Talking post-Fourth of July weekend baseball: What the next few games will tell us about the Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela, teams and players to keep an eye on, losing it fast, an inspiring comeback
Monday 7/7/25 The Red Sox swept a bad Washington Nationals team over the weekend to move one game over .500. If they're going to be...
Jul 74 min read
In which I am called a "young punk" (and an asshole)
Friday 7/4/25 The temperature is a bit cooler today, there's a breeze and less humidity, so I ran ten circuits of stairs in the Bunker...
Jul 43 min read
Wouldn't worry about it
Friday 7/4/25 "Am I overreacting to my wife's work crush?" Nah, it'll probably be fine. Wouldn't worry about it. The things that people...
Jul 49 min read
Jarren Duran's poor defense, possible Red Sox All-Stars, Bruins boners, punting Celtics
Friday 7/4/25 Red Sox left fielder Jarren Duran has six errors thus far this season (one came while playing center field) and a fielding...
Jul 46 min read
New Substack, meta post, lost tooth, how most publishing people are the truth's bitch, music, film, literature, flowers, a wedding, and more
Tuesday 7/1/25 My niece Lilah fainted yesterday. My sister told me she was probably overheated and dehydrated but I will check on her...
Jul 213 min read
Most sites like mine
Monday 6/30/25 You can't make a person who doesn't care care. You can't make a bad person be a good person. I write, I create, I think, I...
Jun 306 min read
Dave Parker's place in baseball history
Sunday 6/29/30 Dave Parker, baseball great, died the other day. He is a member of baseball's most recent Hall of Fame class, which is due...
Jun 294 min read
Dark days for Boston sports
Saturday 6/28/25 The Red Sox came home from a dismal road trip and got it handed to them last night at Fenway 9-0 by the Toronto Blue...
Jun 283 min read
Pithy Beatles thoughts
Friday 6/27/25 A Hard Day's Night is the Beatles' best album. Sgt. Pepper has become overlooked because of how little we think now/are...
Jun 273 min read
A Jim Shepard story in The New Yorker, publishing's classism, the endless lies to self, an Alex Cora truism, tips for watching bad horror movies
Friday 6/27/25 I looked at a Jim Shepard story in The New Yorker today called "The Queen of Bad Influences," which comes from his story...
Jun 278 min read
Prose off with a medical twist: Typical cardboard fiction in The Threepenny Review put forward by Wendy Lesser--whose rapper name is revealed within--v. Fleming story
Thursday 6/26/25 I heard a rumor that Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser's rapper name is the bag of hag, which is a reference to her...
Jun 2610 min read
Are you watching my glow up?
Thursday 6/26/25 Post seen this morning: You’re not witnessing a glow up. You’re witnessing a return. To who I was before the world told...
Jun 262 min read
Move like someone who never loses
Wednesday 6/25/25 I've noticed where people mention in their bio on social media something about bariatric surgery. Then they post before...
Jun 257 min read
Sherlock Holmes notes: The worst death in the canon and the detective story most likely to make you smile
Tuesday 6/24/25 In the Holmes and Watson stories, people die by gunshot ("The Dancing Men"), stabbing ("The Second Stain"), poison ( A...
Jun 246 min read
Gonna get hot
Tuesday 6/24/25 Did five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument Sunday. Ten would have been better, but the air was thick and I...
Jun 245 min read
Air strike, fiction, Paddington Bear, Lonnie Johnson, December dates, repeatedly being kneed in the balls, Prestige jazz, noir
Sunday 6/22/25 US launched strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. How bad is it if the world comes to an end at this point? I don't know...
Jun 225 min read
Prose off, If you had to sex the answer edition: Story in Conjunctions put forward by arrogant, log-rolling anuran Bradford Morrow v. Fleming story (are we yay about this?)
Saturday 6/21/25 I wrote yesterday that we'd be doing another Conjunctions prose off, the hardest thing about that being that when you...
Jun 2112 min read
Underachieving Boston sports teams, why it's hard to be intelligent and a member of a hockey team, Cal Raleigh makes history, the most difficult sport of all
Saturday 6/21/25 I've heard people on the radio who know nothing about sports and who make a lot of money talking unintelligently and...
Jun 216 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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