Saturday 6/26/21 The twenty-first century American is such a simple, gullible creature. He will categorically not think for himself. What...

Saturday 6/26/21 Want to know what the start of a week looks like for me? Weeks here start on Saturdays. I am sitting in the bathroom at...

Friday 6/25/21 Okay, so after three hours on the phone this morning with the tech staff of the host site, here's how things stand if you...

Friday 6/25/21 Have spent the morning on the phone with the host site trying to get one of these site issues fixed--that being the search...

Thursday 6/24/21 This is something I've wanted to get up for a while. And as I sit here in my sweat, not having eaten in twenty-four...

Thursday 6/24/21 Tired. Went to bed at around five, up at half past seven. Two and a half hours of sleep. Read some more texts pertaining...

Thursday 6/24/21 This is fictitious! Let's just say it's fictitious. I would never say such things, right? Okay. But it did give me an...

Thursday 6/24/21 Quarter of three in the AM. Still writing to bigots. Someone sent me a half dozen texts about how "Get On My Lawn" was...

Wednesday 6/23/21 “Well, he’s back again,” my husband Jacob declares as the breakfast march begins. The breakfast march comprises the two...

Wednesday 6/23/21 Updating this. Three plus years. 306 complete short stories. They won't let anyone see any of it. "Funny Lines TK"...

Wednesday 6/23/21 A woman accused me of using photos from twenty years ago on a dating site because she said I looked like I was...

Tuesday 6/22/21 I didn't feel well last night. I had chest pains and shortness of breath. Also, a migraine. I didn't know if I might have...

Tuesday 6/22/21 If a man from Nantucket with a slick chin grins at you, you may wish to 1. Look away because who the fuck wants to deal...

Monday 6/21/21 Hedgehogs are dicks. Avoid them. A hedgehog will roll itself into a ball when a fox approaches, which suggests to the fox...

Monday 6/21/21 * Have started the John Coltrane/Ascension feature for JazzTimes. Should go quickly. (What doesn't here, right?) Have a...

Monday 6/21/21 Conventional wisdom—and many people’s understanding of jazz history—asserts that John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme echoes...

Sunday 6/20/21 There is much to put up on here, but I'll do it later in some other entry or entries. I want a few hours of not formally...

Sunday 6/20/21 12:01 AM Today marks 1820 days, or 260 weeks, or five years, without a single drop of alcohol. For years, I abused...

Saturday 6/19/21 Five mile walk today. Coming back, at one edge of the Common, two men, positively painted with tattoos--necks and...

Saturday 6/19/21 Heading out for exercise now. Worked several hours this AM on "Head to Give." All done with it now. One of my favorites....

Friday 6/18/21 Saw an older, builder type man today, wearing a shirt that said, "Have a Knife Day." Sat along the wharf and watched...

Friday 6/18/21 Motherfuck this is good. *** “We can’t be doing this,” the woman who was just a head said. “I can’t be doing this.” “Oh,...

Friday 6/18/21 Watched 1957's 12 Angry Men again. Wanted to see how it was written. How the off-stage narrative--which is crucial to the...

Friday 6/18/21 I have had to do some very unpleasant things with people in the past twenty-four hours. I hope I don't have to write about...