Tuesday 11/29/22 Couple of predictions: the Patriots will finish 9-8 and Fred McGriff will gain election to the Baseball Hall of Fame...

Tuesday 11/29/22 I wasn't someone who ever bled a lot. Over the course of my life, sightings of my blood were rare. I didn't have bloody...

Tuesday 11/29/22 Over the duration of my life to date, I've noticed that a certain kind of person is apt to say that actions speak louder...

Monday 11/28/22 There is a great deal to enter in this record. I want to be thorough. The four days of the holiday weekend were hard. All...

Wednesday 11/23/22 Heading out to run stairs and do push-ups. I worked this morning on the Children of the Stones essay and the short...

Wednesday 11/23/22 This will be in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. *** The plot of Children of the Stones is wild,...

Wednesday 11/23/22 It's a little after four in the AM. Just wanted to record a few items. I could write in these pages constantly and...

Tuesday 11/22/22 The program is best remembered for the final musical pairing of Billie Holiday and Lester Young—as it should be. We’ve...

Tuesday 11/22/22 This is as good as it gets. *** He could throw the photos away. That wasn’t going to happen. And even if it did, he had...

Tuesday 11/22/22 A lot of my weekends are spent going from on cafe to another, doing work. I have nowhere else to go, save the places I...

Monday 11/21/22 A friend asked me yesterday to send them There Is No Doubt: Story Girls, so they could print it out. I was almost certain...

Monday 11/21/22 To this excerpt, I will add before the fact: If the Beatles existed right now and were writers, and did the writing...

Saturday 11/19/22 This morning I saw a graphic on Facebook in a baseball history group, for who has led the game in home runs in the...

Saturday 11/19/22 Thinking more about this. What's another book? Thirty books sitting here with me, forty books sitting here with me....

Thursday 11/17/22 * Dante Scarneccchia is the best coach Bill Belichick has ever had on staff and should be in the Hall of Fame....

Thursday 11/17/22 It's hard to always be doing everything at once. It's harder still to be doing everything at once when it feels like...

Thursday 11/17/22 A Hard Day’s Night is a film in which the Beatles always seem to be on high alert to provide the next copious outlay of...

Monday 11/14/22 Thought I was done on "BETTER MAN" and it would be a matter of just one last read-through, but I changed the ending and...

Monday 11/14/22 Marcus looked at the four photos again. He looked at the photos often. He’d been looking at them at every opportunity for...

Sunday 11/13 into Monday 11/14/22 Just another slog of a weekend, trying to hang in. Went to the Brattle tonight to try and just take a...

Saturday 11/12/22 Something remarkable about the Gunsmoke radio program (1952-61) is that the four main characters--Matt Dillon (William...

Saturday 11/12/22 * Been working for twenty-four straight hours now. * Pitched something on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for December. *...

Thursday 11/10/22 If you were to ask me what group of people on this earth I had the most respect for as thinkers, I might answer by...

Thursday 11/10/22 More thought given for my transition to podcasting. I'll have to find the time to dive headlong and figure out...