Thursday 8/17/23 What I like about Matthew Lewis's The Monk is his attitude of "Fuck it, I'm going to put that in there, too." It's a...

Wednesday 8/16/23 Re: "Try That in a Small Town": And what will happen? That's how this works--it's a construction of implication. You...

Tuesday 8/15/23 But say it’s a superlative video, so far as one’s tastes go, and you know the woman is dead? Is the video still to be...

Tuesday 8/15/23 "Dead robins are on the ground across the city. Over the red fronts of some of them are these gray markings. Would that...

Monday 8/14/23 I barely hung on last night. There was a point where I was desperately brainstorming if there was anyone I could reach out...

Sunday 8/13/23 It's somewhat early--about five in the morning. Woke up with a headache which is happening most days now and is worrying...

Saturday 8/12/23 A nightmare and a bad dream are not the same. I’m careful about their correct classifications. When I wake up unsettled...

Saturday 8/12/23 I don't do it myself, but I like when people sign off their correspondence with a "warmly"--it's a nice way to be. You...

Thursday 8/10/23 Catchers and pitchers are apt to understand mortality better than other baseball players. A pitcher can be all done for...

Thursday 8/10/23 This is from a feature on the Kinks' The Great Lost Kinks Album that I'm finishing up this morning. It will go into the...

Thursday 8/10/23 I have a friend who isn't efficient, though they often talk about becoming more so. I love my friend, but they create...

Thursday 8/10/23 Is there a better example of a racist, village idiot checkbox hire/career than what one sees with Jemele Hill? Saw she...

Tuesday 8/8/23 Paul Lewis is performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in October. I'd like to get a ticket to that Friday matinee. A...

Monday 8/7/23 Ran 5000 stairs yesterday at City Hall. There was a woman's shoe on the stairs of my building between the first and second...

Sunday 8/6/23 I was waiting outside the barber shop on a bench the other day to get my haircut. There are two benches in front. On the...

Sunday 8/6/23 He practices his comedy routine in his head, which contains words he dare not say aloud, but then again, if he got on a...

Saturday 8/5/23 Much more important things to get to than this, but it just happened so I'll take care of it quickly. Today marks the day...

Saturday 8/5/23 When a person says, "It's not about me," what they almost always mean is, "It's totally about me! Hooray for me!" Be...

Friday 8/4/23 I spoke too soon about Justin Turner and his value to the Red Sox. He may end up--in his age thirty-eight season--having...

Friday 8/4/23 On Wednesday, I took the commuter rail to see my dentist, Dr. Raffi. That's a truncation of his very long name--he's from...

Thursday 8/3/23 I saw this photo on Facebook of a woman I'm friends with--in the social media capacity, that is--on a beach in a bathing...

Wednesday 8/2/23 There’s a scientific explanation to why there’s dew on the grass in the morning, but even though someone could explain...

Wednesday 8/2/23 Yesterday I went out to run stairs later than I usually do. I would like to get better at doing things at different...

Wednesday 8/2/23 Read Clifford D. Simak's Way Station from 1963, a kind of blending of science fiction and nature writing. Good idea, but...