Wednesday 3/23/22 I finished a new book today, called You're Up, You're Down, You're Up: Essays on Art in Life and Life in Art. One can...

Monday 3/21/22 Ran 3000 stairs today. Came up with some essay ideas: one on football, another on the Pogues, another on Diamond Kings,...

Saturday 3/20/22 Woke up with a fierce feeling of fight inside of me. I have become stronger again. Will be best to have a day soon where...

Sunday 3/20/22 On the time and place for tact. I think you'd have a hard time finding someone who loves Russian art more than I do. I run...

Sunday 3/20/22 Tom Brady and the value of being willing to fail. Tom Brady’s return, in following a forty-day retirement that...

Sunday 3/20/22 The Ukraine and the real meaning of empathy. I have never known a single person who possesses empathy. I know what you...

Saturday 3/19/22 Limited stair-running today in the rain while listening to New Order's Technique. Bandaged up the toe, but it hurt and I...

Saturday 3/19/22 A young woman wakes up at mid-day, and leaves her room to make toast, which is all she wants to eat, or what she thinks...

Friday 3/18/22 I think I am going to try and get right today and be ready to fight harder than ever come tomorrow morning. I was talking...

Thursday 3/17/22 * There's a huge amount of accounting to be done here. It gets overwhelming, given how much I do. I simply need to be...

Wednesday 3/16/22 I had a different sort of experience today while running the stairs--or after running them, though I may go back out...

Wednesday 3/16/22 Play up. Play up. And play the game.

Wednesday 3/9/22 I completed a story called "Late First Rounder." It's about a college football player--a guard, in his senior...

Wednesday 3/9/22 Mark decided to take Patricia to the lake because he figured it would be a sympathetic spot to do a break up and if he...

Tuesday 3/8/22 I have a friend who is a contractor. C: I see that a bunch of contractors are murdering people lately. Contractor: Yeah,...

Tuesday 3/8/22 Had a headache, but ran 5000 stairs today. That's 30,000 stairs in four days, which is pretty good. Lest you doubt, try it...

Tuesday 3/8/22 * I don't know how to play chess. * I don't know how to play poker. * I've never made a bet. * I've never gambled. * I've...

Tuesday 3/8/22 There's a cafe I've been going to on Hanover Street that is different than the other cafe I sometimes go to on Hanover...

Monday 3/7/22 For Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. *** Introduction: A...

Monday 3/7/22 * I'm writing the introduction to that book I mentioned yesterday. * Yesterday I wrote an op-ed for St. Patrick's Day on...

Saturday 3/5/22 Stripped to the waist in the cold--left the beanie on to soak up the sweat--for concomitant hardening and to remind...

Saturday 3/4/22 These people are killing me. Obviously all of people who want me dead, but also the people who don't in that they don't...

Thursday 3/3/22 Stories written between June 2018 and March 2022 "Funny Lines TK" "Nacho Cheese" "Invisible Man on Second" "The World of...

Thursday 3/3/22 "Okay. Now we're getting into it. This is completely done for good now, after a final read today, having let it sit again...