Wednesday 11/17/21 Solid work today. Keep the focus tomorrow. Up it. Wrote the first 2500 words of one of the new books. Do the rest of...

Wednesday 11/17/21 * I started a new music book this morning. I had most of it figured out, as well as the structure. Perhaps I'll put...

Tuesday 11/16/21 * Wrote an op-ed at four AM on Sesame Street. It's very good. * I see an awful lot of white women on Facebook who...

Tuesday 11/16/21 If you're a member of the Inner Circle, I ask that you skip this entry--you're going to want to read the whole thing,...

Monday 11/15/21 A man set down a steaming cup of coffee on his desk and prepared to begin a stupendous project of towering significance...

Monday 11/15/21 I have just about completed four new short stories. I'm going through the four one last time right now. I'll run some...

Monday 11/15/21 Kipling wrote that rare is the person who can move forward in the same manner whether they have won or lost. I’ve found...

Monday 11/15/21 I should add to that title: Who were never any good anyway, but who've been tongued and tongued for decades by the people...

Friday 11/12/21 Ten o'clock, Friday night, still working. This is subject to change, both in terms of stories and order. But here is what...

Friday 11/12/21 “Are you okay?” I asked her. “Do you need anything? Can I take you somewhere?” She stared at me in the way that tells you...

Friday 11/12/21 Haven't been feeling well but made myself run 3000 stairs. Contending with awful headaches. Wrote a 1200 word story...

Thursday 11/11/21 Last night I saw what might be the single dumbest thing I've ever seen anyone write. The Dave Portnoy story popped up...

Wednesday 11/10/21 So: I am working on five pieces right now simultaneously. Two are short stories, two are jazz essays, one is about...

Tuesday 11/9/21 People use the word “fiction” to indicate a falsehood, but there is no worse word to use in this context. The factual is...

Tuesday 11/9/21 Fifty years of “Stairway to Heaven” and not knowing what you think you know. There’s a joke that everyone who has ever...

Tuesday 11/9/21 Baseball weirdness: In 1888, for the Philadelphia Athletics, Ed Seward went 35-19 with a 2.01 ERA in his age twenty-one...

Tuesday 11/9/21 There are certain works of art with which I wish I could have a conversation, so that I might express my gratitude for...

Monday 11/8/21 I had two dealings today with writers, which is unusual for me. Someone asked me for a blurb for their novel. I said sure,...

Monday 11/8/21 This is an entry for you. You know who you are. You should also probably know that I see the IP addresses, and I have...

Monday 11/8/21 * My eight-year-old nephew is perturbed with me because I got him a birthday card that had Winnie-the-Pooh on it. I was...

Monday 11/8/21 It's going to be a war path week on here--am I allowed to say that?--in which I do what I need to do, and take down whom I...

Sunday 11/7/21 My answer: Because it's all a pose, there's nothing there. Because it's empty, it's thin, just a prose bag of air. Like...

Sunday 11/7/21 Stop making excuses for drunk drivers and acting like driving incapacitated is just something that happens. As someone who...

Friday 11/5/21 I like the name Lana because it spells anal backwards, and anal is itself, as some might think of it, backwards, and thus...