Many Moments More

Sep 255 min read

Embarrassing Red Sox confession, being a professional, Mets please, bad holdout, bad move, most unbelievable play in sports that I've ever seen, Caitlin Clark's shot

Wednesday 9/25/24 I'm not proud that I've been scoreboard watching with all of the other teams in front of the Red Sox for the last Wild...

Sep 248 min read

Why Patrick Mahomes will never match Tom Brady and why professional sports get worse and worse

Tuesday 9/24/24 Here's why no one--including Patrick Mahomes--is going to match Tom Brady: Brady was amazing in the first half of his...

Sep 243 min read

Let me help you cheat, a main tenet, worm chasm

Tuesday 9/24/24 Ad-blurb: I'm a cheating coach. I help cheaters find maximum fulfillment in their infidelities, turn guilt into healthy...

Sep 219 min read

Guggenheim application 2024

Saturday 9/21/24 Someone wrote me a letter the other day in which they described publishing--and with it things like the awarding of...

Sep 212 min read

Boston K-Sox

Saturday 9/21/24 The Red Sox struck out twenty times last night against the Twins--tying the franchise record--and dropped to two games...

Sep 2016 min read

Prose off: Story in The New Yorker by Salman Rushdie, naked emperor whose ass has always been carried down the street by the likes of David Remnick and Deborah Treisman, v. Fleming story

Friday 9/20/24 Salman Rushdie has never been any good at writing but Salman Rushdie has had everything handed to him because of what he's...

Sep 204 min read

None of them with anything to say, thanks AI, not a good plan, perhaps the best offensive night in baseball history, Red Sox perspective, MFA

Friday 9/20/24 As impressive as your blank profile is, I'm afraid I'll have to pass. AI thinks I should write about "Character...

Sep 164 min read

81,000 stairs and more, villages, Rushdie-Remnick overlapping tongues

Monday 9/16/24 I don't like people who start any kind of bio with "I'm well-educated." You aren't. A person who is actually educated--as...

Sep 1513 min read

A bunch about a bunch

Sunday 9/15/24 A lot of "writers" think that writing is making content for Instagram. People who colorize things that were in black and...

Sep 1412 min read

Prose off: Yet another dreadful story from The Baffler put forward by walking (which is to say, dreck-wired) talentless Brooklyn writer/editor cliche J.W. McCormack v. Fleming story

Saturday 9/14/24 Every day people come here to read about J.W. McCormack of The Baffler and the terrible fiction he publishes in his...

Sep 136 min read

You can't get used panties here, the cost of hash browns, a world of self-congratulators, never been a beauty queen, in defense of anything save for one thing

Friday 9/13/24 It's depressing the number of people from all over the world who come to this journal to view the entry titled "Used...

Sep 126 min read

Trends in horror radio history and how The Hall of Fantasy struck off down a new road in terror

Thursday 9/12/24 There are a number of artful, evocative, honestly frightening episodes of what we can call classic radio horror. I try...

Sep 112 min read

FaceTime with the kids, the mysterious parking lot incident, cake talk, visit to my dad's bench

Wednesday 9/11/24 Spoke to my nieces and nephew last night on FaceTime. Grammie was babysitting over at their house. They boy had to pick...

Sep 113 min read

Jack

Wednesday 9/11/24 Introductions are in order. I'd mentioned writing a story that was a mess and needed a lot of work. Well, I'm...

Sep 102 min read

Fitness stuff

Tuesday 9/10/24 I've been lax in logging fitness-related things. I'll be general but also cover everything more or less. Been out there...

Sep 103 min read

Artist notes: Salvador Dali, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Rimbaud, John Clare, Alfred Hitchcock, James Agee, Roberto Clemente, Harper Lee

Tuesday 9/10/24 Salvador Dali was not an artist. He was a brand. The real legacy of that brand is freshman college dorm room posters....

Sep 102 min read

Anton Chekhov: "I'm out."

Tuesday 9/10/24 Good chance "Expect Delays" is finished today or tomorrow. Also a good chance it will be in The Ghost Grew Legs: Stories...

Sep 107 min read

Sports of the present day: Patriots prediction comes true, not-so-great QBs, sloppy Sox, a revealing march on 30 home runs, Tom Brady the announcer, the possibly ascending BC football program

Tuesday 9/10/24 Had written the other day that I thought the Patriots had a great shot of winning their opener against the Bengals in...

Sep 63 min read

The Patriots on Sunday, the Chiefs' three-peat chances, baseball MVP history stuff from the 1970s, my inability to stop thinking about how the Red Sox might make the playoffs even thought they won't

Friday 9/6/24 If you're not as good as other teams, and you want to beat other teams, one thing you can do is make sure you're in better...

Sep 61 min read

A random list of things I like about autumn

Friday 9/6/24 The air. The leaves. November. Reading William Sloane's To Walk the Night . Walking along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir on...

Sep 64 min read

The Fleer aesthetic, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani and the 50-50 club, league-wide mediocre baseball, an honest look at Alex Cora's managerial career

Friday 9/6/24 It was almost as if Fleer cards were trying to be ugly there for a while. The Fleer aesthetic was one of drabness,...

Sep 43 min read

Probably no Michelin stars

Wednesday 9/4/24 There's an episode of the radio program Gunsmoke where Matt Dillon (William Conrad), talking to Chester (Parley Baer),...

Sep 47 min read

Comparison between the differing approaches in the ghost stories of E.F. Benson and M.R. James, a case for what may be James's fourth best story, and what MFA writers get wrong (among other things)

Wednesday 9/4/24 It is autumn now, or at least what I consider autumn, so we will talk a bit about ghost stories (not that it has to be...