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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," Don Siegel's 1945 short film, Star of Night, Duke Ellington's Nutcracker suite, the 1962 noir, Blast of Silence.

One is good, the other is not good.

Lots of Lady Day and "Solitude."

Talking about a couple recent op-eds. Segment begins at the three hour and eleven minute mark.

And in which Fleming answers with the unvarnished truth. The trumpet strains of a coming revolution to connect people as they have never been connected before.

A focus on the Gershwin sessions from her multi-year Great American Songbook undertaking, with stops at arresting, and underrated, discographical points.