Tuesday 9/14/21 There may be nothing that is harder to overcome in this world than envy. I live it. What fosters more jealousy than...

Monday 9/13/21 At London's Alexandra Palace in November of 1989, the Stone Roses took the stage with frontman Ian Brown saying "the time...

Monday 9/13/21 A text: "I feel like I'm one-year-old and just getting started. I'm so fucking hungry and driven. I want the entire world....

Saturday 9/11/21 An old woman stands on a street corner and says to another old woman, “I’m going to have it done, that’s all there is to...

Thursday 9/9/21 My book in the 33 1/3 series, Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, came out today. I didn't realize this was...

Thursday 9/9/21 1. Most people are very stupid. 2. That is not going to stop them from talking. Or acting as if they definitely know. No...

Wednesday 9/8/21 I didn’t tell my wife that he worked at my work. Our girl was home from college when she shouldn’t have been because...

Wednesday 9/8/21 And horrible/impoverished times just roll on. *** The extra that Derek Jeter had. As a Red Sox fan who had become...

Wednesday 9/8/21 The other day I saw an awful story that an awful writer had shared on Facebook. A meaningless place that does not pay,...

Wednesday 9/8/21 I was saddened by the death of David Patten, only forty-seven-years-old, from a motorcycle accident. He was a vital...

Monday 9/6/21 It’s but a simple thing, but to venture to the greasy spoon in shorts and a ragged hoodie to fetch a coffee at 5AM in early...

Thursday 9/2/21 Woke up in the middle of the night and could not sleep, in part because of the mattress which badly needs replacing. I...

Wednesday 9/1/21 The yard with the house Clete used to live in sloped into a basin from the road, which itself sloped. One boy kneeled on...

Wednesday 9/1/21 Ditto. Beautiful and wise, though. And true. All of which is irrelevant here. *** College football offers an invaluable...

Wednesday 9/1/21 Another wasted piece. *** The real cost of Eric Clapton’s angry, obtuse, hollow-bodied protest Muzak. Recently I was...

Wednesday 9/1/21 Seven in the AM, the Beta Band cranking, first masterpiece of the autumn completed in "Teeth and Hands," primed to begin...

Tuesday 8/31/21 Depressing to have to burn something like this on here. Beautiful piece of writing, though. *** Why autumn cannot get...

Tuesday 8/31/21 This is an op-ed I wrote yesterday on Cam Newton, who the Patriots have just released. No one would publish it. *** Is it...

Monday 8/30/21 Would that I’m ever as happy as the terrier I saw yesterday morning outside the greasy spoon down the street, nattily...

Saturday 8/28/21 It's exactly eleven in the morning as I sit down to write this. In this morning, I've come up with and written two full...

Friday 8/27/21 * Less than two weeks to make all the changes for the Scrooge book. I need to work really hard on a lot of things over...

Thursday 8/26/21 The Mr. Coffee that I had to buy like three months ago has already stopped working. Poverty is awful. Poverty becomes...

Thursday 8/26/21 Conversations shift in tone, if not in language. An effort is made to keep up running in-jokes. The silly verbal...

Wednesday 8/25/21 Doing this bang-bang quick. Ain't got time to stop and tarry. Just ran another 3000 stairs. I sent the Edith Wharton...