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Post-sweep Red Sox notes
Thursday 4/13/23 * The baseball season is two weeks old to the day, and the Red Sox are eight games out. That's honestly kind of...
Apr 13, 20232 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: Mark Warren of Random House
Thursday 4/13/23 Yesterday I was talking to someone about the "story" feature of social media sites like Instagram and Facebook. What you...
Apr 13, 20238 min read


Excerpt from piece about Paul McCartney's guitar playing in the Beatles
Thursday 4/13/23 This piece will go into Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan,...
Apr 13, 20233 min read


One of the worst plays I've seen in all the time I've been watching Red Sox baseball
Thursday 4/13/23 There was a sequence last night that struck me as epitomizing what the Red Sox have become. They had been getting...
Apr 13, 20235 min read


Why do you care?
Thursday 4/13/23 People say many dumb things. Unfortunately, they mostly only say dumb things now. I remember things that I heard in...
Apr 13, 20234 min read


Those Bruins (and, alas, those Red Sox)
Wednesday 4/12/23 A few words about the Bruins before running stairs. They set the all-time points mark last night, having set the...
Apr 12, 20235 min read


Heavy enough
Tuesday 4/11/23 There is a near-overwhelming amount of things to get to. I don't want to say an overwhelming amount, because that would...
Apr 11, 20233 min read


Excerpt from baseball essay
Tuesday 4/11/23 Some of these players themselves play the villain. We are familiar with that player about whom is said, “You hate when...
Apr 11, 20232 min read


Themes
Friday 4/7/23 This is like a nightmare that never ends and just gets worse. What will end it? Death? I wrote an 800 word op-ed on...
Apr 7, 202313 min read


Unsold Rachmaninoff Easter op-ed
Friday 4/7/23 Celebrate Easter this year with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. No holiday signifies opportunity like Easter. It’s...
Apr 7, 20233 min read


For the record
Friday 4/7/23 I don't normally do this--that is, come to these pages to record simply how I feel or what I think about something I've...
Apr 7, 20232 min read


Good Friday tip of the day
Friday 4/7/23 It's Good Friday. Find a way to rise above that which holds you back, both inside of you and out. Insist on the way. That...
Apr 7, 20231 min read


We can all see it
Thursday 4/6/23 I am writing at a very high level. One saw excerpts from the recent Beatles pieces. The recent essay on joy. The Whiteman...
Apr 6, 202311 min read


2-D
Thursday 4/6/23 C: We talk about the kissable ass and the need to have one in order to advance now. Get anywhere. C: But look at Matt...
Apr 6, 20234 min read


Coming across it
Thursday 4/6/23 I've alluded to how this is a period of change, as I complete some things and begin what is a joint period of moving both...
Apr 6, 20231 min read


Do it all
Wednesday 4/5/23 I need a moment not to think about writing. I'm just doing so much. Thirty books at once. Surely Colin doesn't actually...
Apr 5, 20236 min read


Excerpt from essay on Make Way for Tomorrow, the so-called most depressing film ever made
Tuesday 4/4/23 McCarey began as a humor man, which is important to note, for everything that McCarey would go on to become. Humor does...
Apr 4, 20235 min read


Da da dat da dat da da da
Monday 4/3/23 Lot going on. This will be brief. Nice pitching staff you assembled there, Chaim Bloom. Pulling a scurvy in reverse. Have a...
Apr 3, 20231 min read


Tomorrow
Saturday 4/1/23 Saw something in a baseball game tonight I'd never seen before. Chris Sale got lit up, allowing seven earned runs in...
Apr 1, 20234 min read


Grind
Saturday 4/1/23 It's been a fairly intense day. I've written 10,000 words in the last twenty-four hours. Just back from working out....
Apr 1, 20233 min read


Nashville, publishing, and "Fitty"
Saturday 4/1/23 The other day, I watched the body-camera footage of a police officer who entered the school in Nashville during an active...
Apr 1, 202316 min read


Benzedrine beat
Saturday 4/1/23 I have to read it back multiple times, but the Big Three/Beatles piece is done. 2200 words. Two new Beatles pieces, 5000...
Apr 1, 20233 min read


Sherlock Holmes
Saturday 4/1/23 There were a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories in which the detective did very little and didn't do much in the way of...
Apr 1, 20234 min read


Bruins broadcaster Jack Edwards
Saturday 4/1/23 I have come to the point where I can't take Bruins play-by-play guy Jack Edwards much longer. He's never been good at his...
Apr 1, 20238 min read
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