Monday 11/6/23 When I watch football this year, I see a lot of sludge. Little quality. Not much that stands out, team-wise. The game is...

Saturday 11/4/23 Up early working on a Saturday as always. Wrote three op-eds, worked on two stories, a novelette, and wrote a feature. I...

Friday 11/3/23 The complete work will be in Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid Exceptions to Modern Fiction. *** “You can’t be an...

Friday 11/4/23 Heard Craig Breslow's press conference yesterday in which he was introduced as whatever his title is as the guy who now...

Friday 11/3/23 Today will be a landmark day of creation with many works across many forms. Weeks for me usually start on Saturdays, but...

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...

Wednesday 11/1/23 I have watched James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) a couple more times lately....

Tuesday 10/31/23 After the Bruins defeated the Florida Panthers last night in overtime, Jack Edwards exclaimed, "Throw the cat off the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tuesday 10/24/23 There are exceptions and contributing factors (age, health, debilitating life forces) which can moot most of the...

Saturday 10/21/23 When you write a controversial, progressive new love song like "Damn, You Big, Bitch," which I spent the morning doing,...