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Introduction to Beatles book
Monday 3/7/22 For Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. *** Introduction: A...
Mar 7, 202210 min read
The point of being alive
Monday 3/7/22 * I'm writing the introduction to that book I mentioned yesterday. * Yesterday I wrote an op-ed for St. Patrick's Day on...
Mar 7, 20223 min read


In the land of the Zulu
Saturday 3/5/22 Stripped to the waist in the cold--left the beanie on to soak up the sweat--for concomitant hardening and to remind...
Mar 6, 20221 min read


In either
Saturday 3/4/22 These people are killing me. Obviously all of people who want me dead, but also the people who don't in that they don't...
Mar 5, 202214 min read
350
Thursday 3/3/22 Stories written between June 2018 and March 2022 "Funny Lines TK" "Nacho Cheese" "Invisible Man on Second" "The World of...
Mar 3, 20222 min read
Letter
Thursday 3/3/22 "Okay. Now we're getting into it. This is completely done for good now, after a final read today, having let it sit again...
Mar 3, 20221 min read


What are we doing here?
Thursday 3/3/22 People are odd. Multiple times a day I end up saying to myself, "Okay, what are we doing here?" when I see someone doing...
Mar 3, 20223 min read


"Don't Be Bitch: A Putin Satire," short story excerpt
Thursday 3/3/22 The way you’re going to want to handle this is to pretend you’re, I don’t know, back in college. Wait. We can fudge that....
Mar 3, 20223 min read


600,000
Wednesday 3/2/22 Nine o'clock in the morning now. Went to bed at 11:30 last night, up before five. Worked some more on "Desilva"--added...
Mar 3, 20223 min read


"Darkness Within Darkness," short story excerpt
Wednesday 3/2/22 On an eventful night a man fastened a rope to a pipe coming out of his house. He cinched the rope around his waist and...
Mar 2, 20222 min read


"Desilva," short story excerpt
Wednesday 3/2/22 The McReynolds are our neighbors and best friends. Belinda McReynolds is my wife’s closest friend, Dave McReynolds is...
Mar 2, 20225 min read
"Desilva" texts
Tuesday 3/1/22 C: I worked more on "Desilva" tonight. C: This guy starts telling a story about him and his best friend C: The best friend...
Mar 1, 20222 min read


Hoodie talk
Tuesday 3/1/22 I have some kind of wound on my back that is sort of festering. Has been there for a while. About the size of a quarter....
Mar 1, 20226 min read


Winter walking
Tuesday 3/1/22 The joy and benefits of winter walking. Doing some research a few years back, I found that the average person walks less...
Mar 1, 20223 min read


Whatevering
Monday 2/28/22 I knew that I had a tear in my regular workout sweatpants in the crotch. I get holes in my pants and shorts in the crotch....
Mar 1, 20227 min read


Sports notes: Are you trying?
Monday 2/28/22 Celtics lost yesterday to a weak Pacers team. Struggled against the Pistons again, too, over the weekend, but pulled it...
Feb 28, 20225 min read


What a world
Monday 2/28/22 I am not someone for whom "Google" is a verb. I've never used it as a verb in conversation, text, anything I've written,...
Feb 28, 20225 min read


Bumble
Saturday 2/26/22 This is all there is. It's not a Bumble thing. A dating app thing. It's all there is in the world. There is no...
Feb 26, 20226 min read


Tip of the day
Saturday 2/26/22 Be wary of anyone who calls themselves a life coach, a creativity coach, a writing coach, a productivity coach, or any...
Feb 26, 20222 min read


Answers
Wednesday 2/23/22 I will give it a last read, but after more work, that's pretty much going to be in for "The Parable of the Woodpecker."...
Feb 23, 20225 min read


"The Parable of the Woodpecker," short story excerpt
Wednesday 2/23/22 As I understand it, the Bible was written by many people at a lot of different points in time, so it was like the book...
Feb 23, 202215 min read


Typical
Wednesday 2/23/22 Super options out there for the C-Dawg. I'd say this is typical, but many messages are even more poorly written than...
Feb 23, 20221 min read


Actual sexism
Wednesday 2/23/22 I see this often from people in publishing. It's the norm. Misandry is the norm. That's the sexism one encounters in...
Feb 23, 20228 min read


Literally ridiculous
Tuesday 2/22/22 Ran 3000 stairs. Worked more on "The Parable of the Woodpecker." It's 6100 words. That's a long story. Twitter: Where...
Feb 23, 20222 min read
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