Friday 11/5/21 To the IC: A few things here. I have retouched parts of "Burgie," which is attached again. It's excellent. You should read...

Thursday 11/4/21 A letter to the IC: This will amuse you. Look at this trash. Who could possibly care about this? This is what this...

Thursday 11/4/21 I know a guy my age who likes to tell me he's a big Patriots fan. I don't really take this seriously, because I have a...

Wednesday 11/3/21 “Can’t you ask him again?” the wife queried. “I’m telling you, he’s implacable. He won’t come off the line.” “Not at...

Wednesday 11/3/21 Today I saw something about The Atlantic's Jemele Hill on Twitter, where she will trend every so often. The reasons...

Wednesday 11/3/21 I had a dream last night about my late sister Kerrin. I was helping her with a paper and it was a version of an...

Tuesday 11/2/21 This is going to be very fast. It's after seven o'clock, I haven't eaten in over twenty-four hours, I just go, man. Need...

Tuesday 11/2/21 My patience right now is wafer-thin, were you to take some kind of celestial shaving device and cut the thinnest slice...

Monday 11/1/21 I don't even really care anymore, man. You're supposed to pretend you aren't dealing with who and what you're dealing...

Monday 11/1/21 * This isn't going to be very interesting. * I find that I have a plethora of different versions of my "Great, good luck"...

Sunday 10/31/21 C: Do you agree that I should get the neck tattoo? M: WHAT???? C: Because I'm a Zulu warrior. We were talking about this....

Sunday 10/31/21 I saw that Jerry Remy died. My thoughts on Remy are principally two-fold: 1. Don't enable people to murder young women...

Sunday 10/31/21 This is a letter that went off to three people at The Atlantic: Scott Stossel, Ann Hulbert, and Adriene LeFrance, on...

Saturday 10/30/21 * Every last piece I've seen on the new John Coltrane album sucks. They're all bad. People are terrible at writing...

Saturday 10/30/21 Got a late start today, because I was up late--quite late--talking on the phone to someone whose father is in the ICU....

Friday 10/29/21 "We went to the park, and then we walked to Amy's house." "I like the Grateful Dead's American Beauty better than I like...

Thursday 10/28/21 * Want to know how far this goes? Harper's reached out to my ex-wife. That's the level of evil with which you are...

Thursday 10/28/21 A few prefatory remarks to this letter you're about to see, which is one I wrote to David Remnick, editor in chief of...

Wednesday 10/27/21 Thought I'd touch on some works of various stripes that I've been watching, reading, or listening to of late. Highly...

Tuesday 10/26/21 The Beatles could have done an amazing cover of LaVern Baker's "Tweedle Dee" on the BBC, circa 1962/63, with McCartney...

Monday 10/25/21 The black racer is the most beautiful snake we have here in Massachusetts. It's also the fastest, which one would expect...

Monday 10/25/21 There was an entry in these pages last week, which could have referred to any venue, really. Not literally any. But it...

Monday 10/25/21 Wrote an op-ed this morning about the World Series. I'll have to do an entry on here catching up with what's been...

Saturday 10/23/21 There's an editor at a place I've written for who is lying to me. She thinks I don't know she's lying to me. Or,...