Monday 1/24/22 The first day I was buried under leaves in the forest, I didn’t want to rise at all. I figured I could. The option was...

Sunday 1/23/22 Ran 5000 stairs today, which also marks 2030 days, or 290 weeks, without a drink, and actually worked on the two...

Sunday 1/23/22 The Who have erred in how they've handled their legacy, by which I mean, there are so many outstanding concert tapes in...

Sunday 1/23/22 The Spector entry you see on the blog was an op-ed I wrote yesterday. Of course, no one would publish it, because I'm...

Sunday 1/23/22 Boy was I wrong about how that Packers/Forty-Niners game would go! I went to bed in the third quarter and was pretty...

Saturday 1/22/22 The story "Movie Night" is ripping through me this morning. It's overwhelming. The feelings that hit me do so with such...

Saturday 1/22/22 Avoid people who say they want to banter, love banter, or are looking for great banter, as though this is what they...

Saturday 1/22/22 I see that the M&Ms characters--are they characters?--have been redesigned for a more dynamic, progressive world, or...

Friday 1/21/22 The C-Dawg let down the side today. Went out to run stairs, it was ten degrees, and said screw this. Weeks start for me on...

Friday 1/21/22 Some word count stats from this AM. Two things of great significance happened in June 2018. I started writing short...

Friday 1/21/22 Beyond an "ugh"? This constitutes pretty much the best of what I see with these things. Such are the pickings. That's a V...

Thursday 1/20/22 I came up with an idea for a novel tonight. I'll work it out in my head as I do the rest of what I'm doing. But I'm...

Thursday 1/20/22 It's time to get back into "Up the Sea," and finish that one for There Is No Doubt. I make no secret of my ambition to...

Thursday 1/20/22 Be careful with the idea of being proud of yourself. Should you be proud of yourself? Well: depending. And yes and no....

Thursday 1/20/22 I'll look on Twitter and see that Howard Stern is trending. This happens on average once a month, I would say. People...

Thursday 1/20/22 Underwhelming performance of late. Will not get this done. Have to do better. Wrote a story yesterday. Don't know what...

Wednesday 1/19/22 Make lots of to-do lists. Make them on your phone, on pieces of paper, at the front of the book you are reading. Not...

Tuesday 1/18/22 Here's today's Downtown segment. A lot of avant-garde art. Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Kafka, Hulme, Coltrane. Where does...

Tuesday 1/18/22 Sent birthday cards to my niece who is turning two, and my uncle who is turning eighty. His birthday is 1/25, which is...

1/18/22 Hit the right lick.

Monday 1/17/22 * Here's a new piece in The Smart Set on pianist Freddie Redd's 1961 album, Shades of Redd. Said piece is in The Root of...

Monday 1/17/22 Introducing another new series to this journal: Is this the best gig ever? Which I pose as a rhetorical question, not as...

Monday 1/17/22 Listen to more Nick Drake. In Nick Drake one inhabits the city and the country. Is in the shade and the sun. The spring...

Sunday 1/16/22 People who say they are all about the simple things in life, or that life is about the simple things, who are looking to...