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“Sometimes I get distracted by food; but mostly all I think about is women and baseball.” – Robert B. Parker’s Spenser
My favorite author died on Monday, January 18, and he took with him my favorite fictional character.
I was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. My dad, though — who lives in Rhode Island now and [...]
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It’s when you can’t hear the bats, that’s when the bats are coming.
That is what is printed on the front of the birthday card I received from my brother-in-law. On the inside it says, “Other than that, I have no birthday advice.”
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Quite nifty! My mini-tutorial — Five Tips for Smarter Playlists — has been published in the second issue of the online pdf magazine CRAM. A few weeks ago I received an email from one of their editors requesting permission to republish the essay. I had actually forgotten all about it. Then [...]
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I step into the batter’s box, placing my right foot in the hole … scraped inside the back chalk line. I am aware of nothing but [the pitcher] — not the crowd, not the infield in and Lord knows not the blue sky.
This moment is the essence of the game, its molecular core. [...]
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If I ever get a chance to write my memoirs, I think I will name them either: “What to Do If You Are Surrounded by the Entire Bolivian Army and Have No More Bullets” or “Snapshots: Twenty-seven 8 x 10 Color Glossy Photographs with Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back of Each [...]
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These are from a joke email circulating that purports to be “ANALOGIES & METAPHORS FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS”. I highly doubt that these were actually culled from high school essays. The main reason I don’t believe it is because there is no point of reference. There is no notation or source. [...]
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Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.
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Placing Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not in the 1930s – an essay by David Gagne
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On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”
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An essay on Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
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