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"Your Eyes, Before Them", short story excerpt
Saturday 4/9/22 3XXX’s If X marks the spot what do three do Three hands on the same place over the side of a bed One to take another...
Apr 9, 20223 min read


P-list
Tuesday 3/29/22 Sadly, I was going to refer to this entry as things one wishes to avoid lest one be a pussy, but people don't like to be...
Mar 29, 20222 min read


Oscars and the ass voice, and something better
Monday 3/28/22 If you care about film, I don't know why you'd care about the Oscars. Or maybe I should say if you have any knowledge...
Mar 28, 20223 min read


No C-Pigge
Saturday 3/26/22 After doing the unthinkable and not running stairs since Monday, I ran 5000 today. The C-Dawg must not become the...
Mar 27, 20227 min read


Excerpt from Jelly Roll Morton feature
Friday 3/25/22 Jelly Roll Morton was the first musician of any kind—and what a kind he was—who made me ask myself, “Is this guy for...
Mar 25, 20223 min read


No more day
Wednesday 3/23/22 Well, here we are. Half past eight. Hair sticking up like a mad scientist. No stairs two days in a row. Hard work,...
Mar 24, 20224 min read


Intro to You're Up, You're Down, You're Up: Essays on Art in Life and Life in Art
Wednesday 3/23/22 I finished a new book today, called You're Up, You're Down, You're Up: Essays on Art in Life and Life in Art. One can...
Mar 23, 20225 min read


Don't assume the day
Monday 3/21/22 Ran 3000 stairs today. Came up with some essay ideas: one on football, another on the Pogues, another on Diamond Kings,...
Mar 22, 20223 min read


Fight, stairs, sweat
Saturday 3/20/22 Woke up with a fierce feeling of fight inside of me. I have become stronger again. Will be best to have a day soon where...
Mar 21, 20224 min read


Tchaikovsky op-ed
Sunday 3/20/22 On the time and place for tact. I think you'd have a hard time finding someone who loves Russian art more than I do. I run...
Mar 20, 20223 min read


Risking to fail
Sunday 3/20/22 Tom Brady and the value of being willing to fail. Tom Brady’s return, in following a forty-day retirement that...
Mar 20, 20223 min read


Empathy
Sunday 3/20/22 The Ukraine and the real meaning of empathy. I have never known a single person who possesses empathy. I know what you...
Mar 20, 20223 min read


A letter, some Beatles, Brockden Brown, hooks
Saturday 3/19/22 Limited stair-running today in the rain while listening to New Order's Technique. Bandaged up the toe, but it hurt and I...
Mar 20, 20228 min read


"Certain Human Lips," short story excerpt
Saturday 3/19/22 A young woman wakes up at mid-day, and leaves her room to make toast, which is all she wants to eat, or what she thinks...
Mar 19, 20224 min read


What art is
Friday 3/18/22 I think I am going to try and get right today and be ready to fight harder than ever come tomorrow morning. I was talking...
Mar 19, 202217 min read


Accounting
Thursday 3/17/22 * There's a huge amount of accounting to be done here. It gets overwhelming, given how much I do. I simply need to be...
Mar 17, 202218 min read


A different kind of encounter on the stairs
Wednesday 3/16/22 I had a different sort of experience today while running the stairs--or after running them, though I may go back out...
Mar 16, 20224 min read


Tip of the day
Wednesday 3/16/22 Play up. Play up. And play the game.
Mar 16, 20221 min read


"I walk straight into miracles"
Wednesday 3/9/22 I completed a story called "Late First Rounder." It's about a college football player--a guard, in his senior...
Mar 10, 202210 min read


"Late First Rounder," short story excerpt
Wednesday 3/9/22 Mark decided to take Patricia to the lake because he figured it would be a sympathetic spot to do a break up and if he...
Mar 9, 20223 min read


Joists
Tuesday 3/8/22 I have a friend who is a contractor. C: I see that a bunch of contractors are murdering people lately. Contractor: Yeah,...
Mar 8, 20221 min read


It's a barometer
Tuesday 3/8/22 Had a headache, but ran 5000 stairs today. That's 30,000 stairs in four days, which is pretty good. Lest you doubt, try it...
Mar 8, 20221 min read


Crazy Eights, Johnny Four-Guts, toads
Tuesday 3/8/22 * I don't know how to play chess. * I don't know how to play poker. * I've never made a bet. * I've never gambled. * I've...
Mar 8, 20224 min read


The woman at the cafe
Tuesday 3/8/22 There's a cafe I've been going to on Hanover Street that is different than the other cafe I sometimes go to on Hanover...
Mar 8, 20224 min read
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