For a discussion of Tom Brady's departure from New England and some coronavirus tips to extend you life and make you a better person.

Great and oft-innovative films from eighty years ago you might not know about or are worth a well-deserved revisit.

A full meaty, beaty, big, and bouncy forty-five minutes on the subject of the Who's Live at Leeds version of "My Generation."

And also how the author comes to write his fiction.

A piece--which will feature in altered form in Saving Angles: Finding Meaning and Direction in Life's Unlikely Corners--about how the 1980s computer game King's Quest taught a young, would-be author about narrative and imagination. "If I were to use two words to try and encapsulate what it was like for me to grow up, by which I mean, the passions I most often enmeshed myself in — not how much I was loved, or anything like that — I would opt for 'books' and 'woods.'" 

Somebody actually says the truth.

The most salient lesson of the Miracle on Ice hockey team. "A lot of us take a very conservative approach to our lives, our relationships, holding back on vulnerability, not asking direct questions about our performance, what we might do better, because it’s easier to play it safe."

The creepiest hockey video ever made, what people get wrong about the 1980 Miracle on Ice team, the best goal scorer in NHL history.

On football, and also on so much more than football.

About Joy Division's final song, "Ceremony."

Shelley's "To a Skylark," Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30, Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Duke Ellington in Fargo in 1940, the Boston Bruins' core.

Herschel Evans, Johnnie Johnson, Earl Palmer, Hubert Sumlin, Tony Williams, Jimmy Blanton.

Thoughts on the brilliant hard bop of Hank Mobley, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the inroads of German Expressionism into American cinema, and the considerable flaws of The Empire Strikes Back.

He was as good as Trane and Rollins.

Stones, Hendrix, Zeppelin, the Who.

On the occasion of its 500th post since being launched in June 2018.

A post-sexist Dracula show for 2020? Not quite.

Girls groups, and how the Twist craze influenced Sam Cooke and the Beatles.

Ditch those New Year's resolutions and play the Week Game instead.

The Spirituals to Swing concerts at NYC's Carnegie Hall in 1938 and 1939.

Joining Sally Dryer (A Charlie Brown Christmas), Karolyn Grimes (It's a Wonderful Life), and John O'Hurley (Seinfeld) for Christmas Eve readings on Downtown with Rich Kimball. Fleming reads some Yuletide poetry of John Clare.

On navigating a blue Christmas in the performative social media age of pretending to be forever happy when our guts are being sliced through with a hot knife; and the minor-key 1949 film, Holiday Affair, starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh.

A look at Bessie's amazing Christmas blues.

In the spring Tailwinds Press will be publishing Fleming's first novel, which is a book unlike any kind of book there has ever been, called Chads Say What: Being a Novel Novel in Laughter for People Tired of Crying But Relieved Not to Be a Bro (and the Unification of America).

Talking about Fleming's short story, "Mint State 87," from Salmagundi, as well as the newly composed "Spines."