Saturday 12/10/22 Imagine if a fat sixty-seven-year-old white guy wrote exactly what Amanda Gorman writes and Amanda Gorman didn't exist....

Friday 12/9/22 Miracle on 34th Street and the legitimate existence of Santa Claus. Last Christmas, my then seven-year-old nephew barely...

Thursday 12/8/22 I have sat here for the last two hours working on about twenty stories and a novel--The Year--in my head. The characters...

Thursday 12/8/22 I have to reach out to this site's webmaster for a bunch of things. I can't believe I've let that go so long. The Books...

Thursday 12/8/22 Take a New Year’s Eve lesson from the pre-fame Beatles. In the final moments of 1962, the Beatles were in one of the...

Wednesday 12/7/22 Something not weighty because I try to mix it up on here and there's been what there has been and things are coming....

Wednesday 12/7/22 How to survive and make the most of a lonely Christmas. Christmas is a holiday that can produce some of the best...

Wednesday 12/7/22 I used to put stock in things like the Sight and Sound lists that come out every ten years--one a directors' poll, the...

Wednesday 12/7/22 The other day I wrote a story that I'm still working on, which is over 3000 words long, called "Your Mother's Onlyfans...

Tuesday 12/6/22 Yesterday I learned that Bill Belichick makes twenty million dollars a year. Is that the real number? Should I assume...

Tuesday 12/6/22 It’s December 1972, and the world has gone a deeper shade of purple—or the rock world, anyway. Having recorded three...

Tuesday 12/6/22 Kirstie Alley died yesterday. I wasn't aware that she was sick, and wasn't even thinking about her possible death when I...

Monday 12/5/22 I don't think people really understand what free speech means. You can go out into the street and say most things into the...

Monday 12/5/22 I was wrong about TCU--not only did they get in, they're the #3 seed. I do think they had a better year than Alabama--I'm...

Monday 12/5/22 Sometimes I think that I ought not to write something on here or delay putting it up because of volume and that has been...

Sunday 12/4/22 Bad day on top of bad days. Or beneath. Discouragement followed by worse discouragement. The situation is just so bad and...

Sunday 12/4/22 There are certain live recordings whose existence often strikes me as too good to be true, no matter how many times I’ve...

Sunday 12/3/22 This is just a note to document that "A BETTER MAN THAN YOU," "Rosa," "The Ghost in the Flame," "The Second House," "The...

Saturday 12/3/22 There is none, really. There is only one if you don't understand baseball, how to evaluate a career, what statistics...

Saturday 12/3/22 Just a behind-the-scenes peak here. The material below was removed--not by me--from one of the new Beatles pieces I...

Saturday 12/3/22 I have been walking around with the knowledge that I am writing the best Christmas story there has ever been. I am...

Saturday 12/3/22 Next year marks the the seventieth anniversary of what may be the best jazz concert ever given in North America, or...

Friday 12/2/22 I worked as hard as ever this week and I will work harder next week. Today I am doing my version of laying low. What does...

Thursday 12/1/22 About to head out to run stairs and do push-ups. Have done a large amount of work this AM--came up with an wrote the...