Sunday 1/21/24 A couple days ago was the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe--right here in Boston, where Poe went on to build up large stores of...

Sunday 1/21/24 Four in the morning now on this Sunday. Been at it for a little bit. I received another letter about David Remnick,...

Saturday 1/20/24 Was sent this big catalogue to a baseball memorabilia auction. I wonder where they got my info. A 1933 Ruth Goudey, 1953...

Saturday 1/20/24 Some small things from today that I have liked and found warming. Was at the cafe a while ago making notes for things I...

Saturday 1/20/24 Same idea as the entry pertaining to football, only with baseball this time. A batting glove under one's fielding glove....

Saturday 1/20/24 Things are about to get rather intense on here--or resume in their intensity, perhaps I should say--and some bad people...

Friday 1/19/24 I have much to get to with the bigoted and talentless J. Robert Lennon, a professor at Cornell who is the editor of the...

Friday 1/19/24 Nice win by the Bruins last night against MacKinnon, Makar, and the Avalanche at the Garden. If I could pick a Stanley Cup...

Friday 1/19/24 Outstanding baseball player who has never been talked about enough: Larry Doby. Dominique Wilkins was my guy as a kid. I...

Thursday 1/18/24 For the last few days I've been working on "The Ghost and the Flame." This is a major work. I should be done soon. I...

Thursday 1/18/24 Just filling in the blanks of some recent fitness matters. On Friday I ran 3000 stairs and did 100 push-ups. On Saturday...

Thursday 1/18/24 It's not quite as prevalent now--but there's still plenty of it going on--but there was a time when any mention of...

Thursday 1/18/24 It's nice to see that the San Antonio Spurs are even worse this year than they were last year. Gregg Popovich is among...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I heard a man in Jerod Mayo without a plan. Without a vision for how this team will play. At least not yet. I also...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I just spent nine straight hours writing. Now I will run stairs. But first I will rhetorically ask: Can one drum better...

Wednesday 1/17/24 Over the past several days, I've been listening to dozens of episodes of the old time radio program, The Hall of...

Wednesday 1/17/24 If the characters are real, they will tell you, as the author, the story. The story is theirs, not yours. I will see...

Wednesday 1/17/24 I think the Packers have a decent chance to knock off the Forty-Niners this weekend. They're playing loose, feeling no...

Tuesday 1/16/24 A different entry involving stairs. On Sunday morning, while running stairs, I FaceTimed with the kids, but mostly...

Tuesday 1/16/24 I would say that there is no one who would rather just be left in peace than I. I don't want confrontation, I don't want...

Monday 1/15/24 Franklin: Tidings, lads. Bartender: I'm fifty. Franklin: Who isn't? Why does he look like he's about to slit his wrists?...

Monday 1/15/24 Listened to A Hard Day's Night yesterday. Listening to it a lot lately on account of work on Giving You Everything: A Hard...

Monday 1/15/24 Founded an organization called The Order for the Proper Use of the Word Curvy. We're a non-profit. We're finding that...

Sunday 1/14/24 Some sad news that I learned about yesterday: David Skal died on January 1. He was a horror historian who wrote books...