Tuesday 5/3/22 I am badly in need of a new mattress. There is nowhere to sit in here save at the desk or on the bed, and the old mattress...

Monday 5/2/22 Slept about five hours last night. Must have gotten up to go to the bathroom ten times. I just start chugging liquids. Have...

Sunday 5/1/22 The C-Dawg has started to feel ill. Stuffed up, scratchy throat, significant aches. But, in typical C-Dawg fashion, I have...

Sunday 5/1/22 Why It Was Written: Pain-Free Explorations of Life-Changing Literature Ran 5000 stairs yesterday. Today marks 2128 days, or...

Saturday 4/30/22 16. "I'm So Tired" Fun to imitate. Less fun, maybe, with the knowledge of how much one relates to the voice. "Tired" is...

Saturday 4/30/22 If you say something fair and true to somebody about a negative quality or form of behavior, they will almost always be...

* Mailed a birthday card to my niece. She's turning six! * Finally got off my ass and ran stairs--3000 of them. I have only ran stairs...

Tuesday 4/26/22 * Pitched something on Sonny Clark. I have a lot of strong jazz pitches out there right now: The Penguin Guide to Jazz,...

Monday 4/25/22 People like to underwrite--that is, make an excuse for--their laziness, terror of risk--putting themselves out there at...

Monday 4/25/22 I worked at this hardware store once and there was this other guy who worked there, a Puerto Rican, who called himself...

Monday 4/25/22 I wrote a story last night called "Bitches," which is entirely about guys calling each other bitches. It's actually quite...

Sunday 4/24/22 A pointless day. Began writing an introduction for Glue God: Essays (and Tips) for Repairing a Broken Self, the computer...

Saturday 4/23/22 I believe we're done here. Don't hold me to it. Things happen, occur, develop, but I think I have There Is No Doubt:...

Saturday 4/23/22 She knew now. She had always known, maybe. What she was going to do. What she had done. Or what she was presently doing....

Saturday 4/23/22 I was a selfish asshole several ways over, and I found myself thinking about that Bobby Orr book I used to read. If we...

Friday 4/22/22 The one hour video of the talk about my 33 1/3 book on Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 for the Arlington...

On the death of two right wingers linked for all-time. Even though I grew up in Boston, and was loyal to my hometown Bruins, there was no...

Saturday 4/23/22 I'm going to write an introduction for Longer on the Inside: Very Short Fictions of Infinitely Human Lives. You have to...

Thursday 4/21/22 Tears streaming down my face for the last half hour. Going through "Fitty" again. I had done the first two sections, as...

Tuesday 4/19/22 A day to get after things. I'll document what happens as it happens. Fairly late right now--about quarter after six in...

Tuesday 4/19/22 Do you ever think there’s a spot in nature that wakes up on a morning and says, “I think I’ll take a human today?” Some...

Tuesday 4/19/22 As I was writing that post yesterday, I checked the current short story in The New Yorker, knowing it would be the usual...

Tuesday 4/19/22 A man decided he was going to let it fly. “Enough!” of the stage-management of his words, he thought. All of that effort...

Monday 4/18/22 Patriots' Day. Easter, of course, was hard. I am alone every day of every year of my life, having no one, but certain days...