Monday 3/11/24
I know a guy who was exactly right about Mac Jones from the start, when everyone was saying how amazing he was. Seriously. I do. I just talked to him. That guy is pleased he won't have to see Jones on the Patriots next year, though they'll suck regardless. Still--this is better.
Isn't it interesting how a meritocracy works? You're a first round pick, then you suck, you keep sucking, and you're traded for a late round draft choice to be a back-up to a mildly decent starter and you're that much closer to being out of the league, all in three years.
M-E-R-I-T-O-C-R-A-C-Y.
What a fucking concept.
The way Buddy Holly says "tenderly" on "Listen to Me." I've always come back to that. His adaptability. Imagination is required.
Ken Linseman's last name has two syllables in the States and three in Canada.
I had said there are very few great horror novels. What are they? Frankenstein drags and drags. Dracula is more inventive than it's usually given credit for, but so much of it is guys telling each other how great they are. The Haunting of Hill House is good. Best is William Sloane's To Walk the Night, but that novel is so much more than a horror novel, which is one reason why it's my favorite book of all-time and one I greatly respect.
Charcoal the horse, or Charky, is a great character on Tales of the Texas Rangers who we never hear from. We hear him--his hooves, mostly, when in hot pursuit. He's quiet the rest of the time, a total professional.
I sent "Idra" to some people. It's perhaps ironic to make this remark, given aspects of the story, but there will be some kind of hell to pay for other people when the world does know about this story and they're confronted about their behavior. I say to myself, you should be proud of this work, but I also know that my focus is entirely on what I'm doing and what's next, not how good the newly completed thing is. But still. That is something else, sir.
Listened to Ornette Coleman's Change of the Century. I'll keep an eye out for a recording of the full show Dylan gave the other day in Fort Myers with that performance of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven."
Walked six miles yesterday, ran 3000 stairs, and did 100 push-ups. Was 100 and change, but I don't count leftover, in-between amounts. One of the sets was of forty, though, which is pretty good.
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