Tuesday 9/19/23 Dan Marino recently claimed that he could throw for 6000 yards in today's NFL on account of how the game is now played...

Tuesday 9/19/23 In the 1980s--which is regarded as the worst decade for hockey net minders--Grant Fuhr was the consensus best goalie in...

Monday 9/18/23 This morning someone asked me why I run thousands of stairs every day. It has been my experience that it is strange to...

Monday 9/18/23 My nieces and nephew sent me cards for my birthday and I was so excited to get them! Their parents were away for the...

Friday 9/15/23 This will be in Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. I need to...

Friday 9/15/23 This journal is the opposite of Twitter. Yesterday I worked straight through from the day before until 4:30 AM, then was...

Thursday 9/14/23 It's late--after two in the morning. I was going to bed a few hours ago, when a friend called at the start of a long...

Wednesday 9/13/23 Another story done, and close to being done on a revised essay for Halloween, which will also be in And the Skin Was...

Wednesday 9/13/23 This is how you do it. From this revised work that is going into The Solution to the World's Problems. This is what I...

Wednesday 9/13/23 Red Sox and Yankees battling it out for fourth place in the division with a doubleheader yesterday at Fenway. I saw...

Tuesday 9/12/23 If there was a racist Hall of Fame, Jemele Hill would get in on the first ballot with like 83.7% of the vote. She might...

Monday 9/11/23 I am equally fond, of course, of my nephew and my two nieces--whose names occur in "Best Present Ever" near the end--but...

Monday 9/11/23 “She’s back,” the nurse observed. The doctor wanted to respond with something snappy, but also playful, to lighten the...

Monday 9/11/23 People are very simple. They see that Mac Jones threw for 300 plus yards against a team that was good defensively last...

Saturday 9/9/23 This is grueling. Finished two more stories. Overhauled one from a couple years ago this morning called "The Giver of...

Friday 9/8/23 A couple days ago I wrote about a story I'm working on called "You Can Have That" in an entry about how using an ostensibly...

Friday 9/8/23 I wanted to talk about richly human sequences in cinema and it wouldn't have felt right to do so without citing the part...

Wednesday 9/6/23 Remember that nearly everyone has an agenda--now more than ever--and very rarely does their motivation come from a...

Wednesday 9/6/23 Listened to the mono version of Sgt. Pepper recently. It makes the record more of a rock and roll concern than the...

Tuesday 9/5/23 These are some lines from "You Can Have That," a story which is going to be in The Solution to the World's Problems:...

Tuesday 9/5/23 Mental illness as a putdown. Lambasting someone as mentally ill is one of the more curious aspersions of our vituperative...

Monday 9/4/23 It's eight in the morning and I've been working for eight hours already. Now I'll run stairs and later I'll go to the...

Saturday 9/2/23 Favorite place: Rockport, MA Favorite season: Autumn Favorite holiday: Christmas Favorite book: William Sloane's To Walk...

Friday 9/1/23 M.R. James would get together with a buddy in his or their rooms, and they'd pull the curtains and pretend it was dark out...