Looking at a book on the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

The humanizing submersible

Exploring how Brad Mehldau explores J.S. Bach

Talking about a unique American workout routine on the air, and some shark commentary on the blog.

Looking at the the Beatles' July 2, 1963 BBC session as one of their all-time finest musical moments

A discussion of Fleming's new story, "Last Light Out," in the spring/summer issue of Glimmer Train, and how he comes to write some of the stories he writes.

Give the drummer some!

In which the author adapts some pages from his developing memoir and examines how Boston's Museum Fine Arts helped keep him alive, despite his tendency to pass out in an alcove on the second floor beneath a John Singer Sargent mural and get mistaken for a piece of performing art by Japanese tourists. Just scroll down to issue #20 and download the Fleming pdf!

Simple tips for evolving in the short term as a human. Sorry, acronym people. ROTFL! JK! (Please stop.)

The first blog post is now up under the Many Moments More tab. The blog will be an open diary, with thoughts on art, sports, life, scenes from various hikes, museums, concerts, ballets, with thoughts on films being screened, music being listened to, books being read. And it will also be a name and venue-referencing expose of the corruption and evil that dominates the anti-meritocracy, anti-sanity, anti-decency, anti-literature, anti-reading system that is publishing in 2018.

Downtown with Rich Kimball - A discussion on the most overrated stat in baseball, how Kevin Durant symbolizes all that is wrong with sports, why the Celtics should move on from Kyrie Irving, and the millenialization of the Patriots

...and links don't upload themselves. Links to work back through 2014 are now up on the site. Wander the galleries (i.e., click the tabs) of the digital prose museum! Sports aside: Alex Ovechkin = winner, Kevin Durant = loser, because it takes a winner to help those who struggle to win win, and only a loser joins winners he cannot beat.

A discussion of the first heavy metal album, many things metal, the apex of metal, and loud classical music.

"I got blisters on my fingers!" As of this morning, almost all of the links for work going back to 2016 have been uploaded.

A discussion of Fleming's new essay, "American Crazy," examining how most of our societal ills, from the dissolution of identity to vacated responsibility to nonexistent connections to school shootings, originate from the same source/pit.

An essay called "American Crazy," looking at Santa Fe and the real reasons kids shoot kids, which go beyond guns and angst, and to the diseased psyches of so many in our society of fragmentation, virtualization, and truth vitiation, including those who will never wield a firearm. With thoughts, too, on the film Gun Crazy.

As of this morning, the links from the past year have been uploaded to the Music, Film, Literature, Sports, Short fiction, Beatles, Art, and On air tabs. "It's been a hard day's night..."

The archiving of hundreds of links to work has commenced. As of today, most of the last five months' worth of articles, stories, and radio appearances, going back to mid-December, have been uploaded.

Blue Cheer: Louder than God?

A man who has given up drinking talks sundry things drink-related.

Shall we say some truths about publishing?

Talking about the greatest ever poet of nature, John Clare, with a recitation of "I Am."

Toggling between Hitchcock's Vertigo and Welles's Touch of Evil

A discussion of Fleming's latest Rolling Stone piece, centering on one epic Who jam

Did the Who invent large swaths of Tommy live on stage in 1968?