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The animated pilot for Carlton, Your Doorman, Laurel and Hardy's Blotto, two scary Suspense episodes--one featuring Orson Welles, the other set in the canyons of California, and the recent piece on Babe Ruth in The Smart Set
Some live Grateful Dead, mid-1970s Mitchum, least favorite sports, Johnny Dollar, writing tips, who you should and shouldn't trust, Christopher Cross, laughs
The Golden Girls, double play combos, Johnny Dollar, Dave Kingman, Laurel and Hardy's Sons of the Desert
The Dead's "Uncle John's Band," Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," the Band's Moondog Matinee, the most all-American baseball seasons by player and team, Creature from the Black Lagoon
12 Angry Men, five years minus alcohol, a filmed performance from rock band Cream, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, the fiction of Daniil Kharms
The Grateful Dead's "Box of Rain," the Beatles' first BBC session, Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale, the career of all-time great baseball catcher Gary Carter
A classic horror episode of Lights Out from 1938; one of the best five-parter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episodes; 1951 jumble of a noir, His Kind of Woman with Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price; the second baseman position
Two JazzTimes pieces on Eric Dolphy and Charlie Christian; the Robert Ryan boxing film, The Set-Up; Sam Cooke's 1963 album, Night Beat; the late Paul Soles, who voiced Hermey the Elf in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the Grateful Dead's "Ripple," 1958's The Haunted Strangler with Boris Karloff, and the late-career performance of Carlton Fisk
Hockey, film, music, radio art
The 1990-91 Bruins and a lost opportunity; Red Sox career of Fred Lynn; Sam Cooke's 1961 concept album, My Kind of Blues; Nick Drake's Bryter Layter turns fifty
Writing three books at once, Roger Clemens, The Rifleman, Triscuits
The Many Moments More blog hits 1000 entries; the underrated Wade Boggs; the Hall of Fame chances of various Bruins; annoying sounds that people make
Writing a book about the guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Time"; 1961's The Hustler; a couple of strange exhibition games between the Red Sox and Mets from 1986 and 1987; sports stats that have lost luster
Walking etiquette, Orson Welles, Beatles
Red Sox and Bruins, Crosby v. Ovechkin, new JazzTimes piece on Jimmy Blanton, one of the best New England-based works of art c/o Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Cadbury Eggs; John Coltrane; Handel's Messiah; the Beatles; The Day the Earth Stood Still; the most important commodity in the world
The difference between chemistry and connection; the real meaning of the word "facts" and how almost everyone misuses it; the hell space of dating apps
Op-ed in the New York Daily News; plagiarism; the idiocy of remarking, "I live life to the fullest"; happiness
Injuries in sports; why hyperbole dominates culture; the uselessness of degrees; why people are terrified of intelligence
Hate mail on a dating site; another stellar episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; 1980's NHL Showdown; the novel version of The Searchers
The real reason why sports ratings are down; the 50th anniversary of All in the Family and how Archie Bunker is misunderstood; new piece on Ambrose Bierce in The Smart Set; the Carter Family's "Can the Circle Be Unbroken"
The unfunny, bullying David Letterman; the innanity of "words can't express" and "you can't make it up"; black coffee; and ranking each of the best players from the four major North American sports
Talking about the USA Today op-ed on age
The people who eat the space in supermarkets; the overlap of sports and art; Howard Hawks' The Big Sky; the Yardbirds live in 1968
