Tuesday 12/7/21 Good win for the Patriots last night, one which I fully expected. It's the kind of game they win. Games with weird...

Monday 12/6/21 I wrote a 1600 word op-ed on Buck O'Neil, race, and merit this morning. There are very few places that could consider an...

Behold: the most depressing Christmas radio program ever broadcast in this country. It's an episode of Dragnet from December 22, 1949....

Saturday 12/4/21 The heat remains off, it's a little after six on this Saturday, and I feel like Bob Cratchit as I blow on my hands so I...

Friday 12/3/21 Today started with a stressful morning. Awoke to learn that the heat had gone off and is not working. And to see there...

Thursday 12/2/21 Drunk on White Claw again. Only kidding. I am not on the Claw. But I did walk twelve miles--and imbibe a hot cider--to...

Thursday 12/2/21 A pitiful performance of late. I've been useless. I need to find the energy and I need to force myself onward. A...

Wednesday 12/1/21 I don't normally do this--just put up a link to a radio interview as a stand alone entry--but I thought I'd mix it up....

Tuesday 11/30/21 Today I quite randomly stared humming the theme song to The Smurfs, something I've never done, for which I asked myself,...

Tuesday 11/30/21 Recently I was at the Brattle over in Cambridge, and on the way home after the film screening I stopped at the Coop in...

Sunday-Monday 11/28-29/21 I could have done with a Christmas album from Sam Cooke. That would have been cool, right? He'd have made a...

Sunday 11/28/21 Things in sports I like: change-ups, backhand passes in hockey, snow at football games, 360 dunks, wrist shots, glove...

Saturday 11/27/21 "Merry" is a word that gets attached to Christmas, but if you think about it, most of the people who say "Merry...

Friday 11/26/21 Here's something from yesterday that's emblematic of how I derange many people in their jealousy and manic obsession with...

Thursday 11/25/21 A number of years ago, an editor at Vanity Fair who was really into the Beatles--he had a Beatles cover band named...

Thursday 11/25/21 * Started work at 3:30 on this Thanksgiving morning. * A big part of the reason people want to say they are writers is...

Wednesday 11/24/21 Was watching The Andy Griffith Show episode where there’s a new boy. Opie wants to fight him so Andy asks why. Opie...

Tuesday 11/23/21 It's one of them. I think that is enough to know. It takes all of one second--maybe less than a second--to know that the...

Tuesday 11/23/21 I saw a news items where a democratic social media manager named Mary Lemanski in Illinois was fired because yesterday...

Monday 11/22/21 It’s a hellish analogue of The Producers, for which, on the music side, Redd teamed with altoist Jackie McLean, a...

Monday 11/22/21 A few new items here. This is an essay in The Smart Set on Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film, A Canterbury Tale, one of...

Monday 11/22/21 Yesterday marked 1967 days, or 281 weeks, without a drink of alcohol. On Saturday I ran 5000 stairs and yesterday I ran...

Monday 11/22/21 I'm out of coffee so I went down to the breakfast joint just now, a little after five, to get a cup. It's warm out. I...

Sunday 11/21/21 * Increasingly I see that arts communities, academia, and the media treat pedophilia in such a way that it's becoming...