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Op-ed on stairs in the New York Daily News and letter to the rangers at the Bunker Hill Monument
Wednesday 8/20/25 I had an op-ed on stairs run (you get it) in the New York Daily News, which I wasn't aware of until well after the...
Aug 20, 20252 min read


Stair history, another extrapolatable metaphor for how we are now from inside the Bunker Hill Monument, and a liar is served some humble pie
Friday 8/8/25 I've taken a while in getting to this, but didn't want to leave it any longer so that I can move on with other matters...
Aug 8, 202513 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: A letter to Rebecca Barden, editor of Bloomsbury's BFI Film Classics series
Wednesday 8/6/25 This will suffice for now. More later. Here is a letter I sent today to Rebecca Barden, who is the editor of...
Aug 6, 20254 min read


Breaking down the latest Red Sox surge
Wednesday 8/6/25 All the Boston Red Sox do is win! Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but they have won seven in a row and just as importantly,...
Aug 6, 20257 min read


Getting going, a letter, and a sidebar about Susan Morrison of The New Yorker
Friday 8/1/25 I've had a tough time getting going lately. I'm not writing enough. There's so much to do and it feels like there is so...
Aug 1, 202510 min read


Caveat emptor, Patriots fans!
Thursday 7/31/25 A most curious thing--well, to me--has blanketed the New England region here in the doggiest days of summer, this...
Jul 31, 20255 min read


more-eh-so
Thursday 7/31/25 It was ninety-eight degrees (which set a record for the day), but I was heartened on Tuesday to see that the fall decor...
Jul 31, 20258 min read


Shannon Sharpe, rape, and "discipline"
Thursday 7/31/25 Shannon Sharpe is a rapist, and all of these people--including lots of women--take to social media to remark that this...
Jul 31, 20253 min read


A most interesting ballgame at Fenway
Sunday 7/27/25 Fascinating game yesterday between the Dodgers and Red Sox at Fenway, especially when we go inside the numbers. The...
Jul 27, 20253 min read


I know what you're doing, Red Sox!: Predicting the club's deadline moves, where Bregman ends up, and what it's really all about for the Old Towne Team
Saturday 7/26/25 The Red Sox lost the first game of their series against the Dodgers at Fenway last night. No surprises there. The Red...
Jul 26, 20254 min read


The final countdown
Friday 7/25/25 The Monument will be closed today on account of the heat. Thought this would be a good time to take stock. Ran ten more...
Jul 25, 20256 min read


We don't watch Fox in this house
Thursday 7/24/25 The Red Sox-Cubs game was on the other night when my mom was at my sister's babysitting the kids. She went to put it on,...
Jul 24, 20255 min read


16 more strikeouts by the Red Sox (but at least they didn't commit catcher's interference again), a surprising RBI leader, word out of Patriots training camp, and the fall-off of Mookie Betts
Thursday 7/24/25 The Red Sox had catcher's interference called against them again on Tuesday in their loss to the Phillies for the eighth...
Jul 24, 20255 min read


The directive of WNBA players to "Pay Us What You Owe Us"
Wednesday 7/23/25 The "Pay us what you owe us" demand of WNBA players ought to be something I find mystifying, just as I ought to find it...
Jul 23, 20255 min read


Heart attack recipe
Tuesday 7/22/25 People constantly say the same things that other people say. As if it's impossible for them to say anything endemic to...
Jul 22, 20256 min read


The most meaning on the page with the most white on the page
Tuesday 7/22/25 It's something else how hard I have been working on this, more about which later. What I'm trying to do is have the most...
Jul 22, 20252 min read


Some soreness, the Admiral comes through, stories, which fish to shoot in a thimble next, erstwhile buddy, Museum of Fine Arts, baseball notes
Tuesday 7/22/25 Woke up with sore calves for a couple days in a row. How sore? I don't know how to gauge these things. Normally I'm not...
Jul 22, 20258 min read


Would Roger Clemens be a Hall of Famer based off of his Red Sox career alone?
Sunday 7/20/25 Recently I came across a discussion as to whether Roger Clemens deserved induction into the Hall of Fame based solely on...
Jul 20, 20255 min read


"That's your groove": Writing changes, Orson Welles on Duffy's Tavern, the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star" from 5/31/69, Fats Waller, pedestrian Monument performance, can't win .5-0
Sunday 7/20/25 I like finding solutions in writing because it is a given I will find them. I don't really have to do anything save allow...
Jul 20, 20256 min read


Extra rations of rum for all hands!: An inauspicious, typically Red Sox-ian start to the second half of the Boston baseball season
Saturday 7/19/25 I didn't like what I saw from the Red Sox yesterday in their 4-1 loss to the Cubs. The Sox had the same record at last...
Jul 19, 20255 min read


Property of Stair Guy: Another twenty circuits of stairs in a single workout in the Bunker Hill Monument
Saturday 7/19/25 For the second time in five weeks, I did a record-tying twenty circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. As I...
Jul 19, 20255 min read


Wear a ripped shirt like no one is watching
Friday 7/18/25 "Comes a Day, Comes a Man" was completed today. Doesn't get better. Thus began a day that was more than a day and came a...
Jul 18, 20258 min read


You deserve good things
Friday 7/18/25 A popular video yesterday involved a cheating couple being exposed on a "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert. First off, why...
Jul 18, 20255 min read


You knew what I meant
Thursday 7/17/25 As I said back on June 11 , I sent "Friendship Bracelet" in an email with a nice letter to about fifteen people....
Jul 17, 20257 min read
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