4/5: One Shining Moment, part II
Boston University vs Marist College women's hoops (Source: Wikimedia Commons) An earthquake in a place like New York City feels a bit like a rolling wave. A...
3/27/24: Ten years, 24 hours at a time
24 hour token from Alcoholics Anonymous March 27, 2014 resembled many days before it. It resembled many days after it, too, except for one thing: It was the...
March 24, 2024: Let's Keep Dancin'...
The first game of the 2022 NCAA D1 Mens Basketball tournament, featuring the Texas A&M Corpus Christie Islanders and the Texas Southern University Tigers....
March Madness: Men's Thrilling 32 preview
The Purdue Boilermakers home court. Is this the year they finally win it? OK, so we've made it through the first round, and I've gotta be real with you: it's...
March Madness, Day 2: Evening Edition
The ball is round, and the game is 40 minutes long Up until about 5:45 or so today, the men's NCAA tournament was pretty flat. Yeah, Oakland knocked off...
March Madness, Day 2: Afternoon edition
I'm sending out three emails today. One, recapping yesterday's games, you've already gotten. The one you're getting now covers Friday's afternoon games, for...
Guess who's back, back again?
So: it's been a minute. To recap: if you're getting this email, it's because you were a subscriber to my old newsletter on Substack. I quit writing that...
Eight thousand, eight hundred fifty-six hours
A year in a life.
it's been a year
looking back on a bad/good year, part 1
all I want for Christmas is you
2020: it's been some shit, huh
Election 2020: Feelin' kind of blue
Where we're at around noon Wednesday
Election 2020 overnight update: Chill the fuck out, please.
This is gonna go a long while longer.
Election Day 2020: Noon update
A quick hit laying out some info, plus what I'm going to be looking at this evening
One Day More
it's the end of the beginning, rather than an ending altogether.
Veep-veep
Who's going to be Joe Biden's running mate?
Looking on & doing nothing
The degradation of America continues apace
Burning down the house
Covid-19 is raging out of control
Quitters gonna quit
A potential endgame for America's worst president
Juneteenth
What is this day - and why it means so much this year.
Another wild week
Sometimes, it's best to let other people speak
We must disenthrall ourselves
Why #8Can'tWait won't solve the disaster of policing
Chi osserva i guardiani?
What an awful week
"Angry. Devastated. Scared."
A hell of a year in a week
To think of time
The toll of this plague
The ball is round...
A quick guide to which team to support in the Bundesliga
Hope will give us power
she is saying our names, and she's our present
Spending days in animal ways
Pacing life in a pandemic
I'm a ghost, livin' in a ghost town
Issue 52
This is the time to be slow
How I spend my time in quarantine
The simplest dish
How I learned to cook for myself
Civilization spurns the leopard
50 newsletters down
Look on my works and despair
Keeping busy by myself
There are languages I didn’t know I wanted to know.
Living in a pandemic, continued
Life is a pure flame...
...and we live by an invisible sun within us
Watching the twilight
We are set for a grief of ages
The feeling we all have is grief
The world we've lost, the world we're in, and the world to come.
Quarantine days
I miss seeing people so much
The most sacred of times
Chronicles of life during the plague
Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
The world, turned upside down
I'm scared, and that's OK: Life in the time of the coronavirus plague
Gather ye rosebuds
Springing forward
...And then there were two.
An elegy for Warren's campaign. Plus: a coronavirus update from Seattle.
“No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.”
The coronavirus is now a global pandemic.
The things we fear
Also: why do The Youths like Bernie? Plus: things I've found interesting
This is the only time we have
Why I bounced off social media, how I read, and why I write
Wednesday Night Rumble
Warren goes metal and MLB players go mental
Patience is our superpower
A brief meditation
Tonight, I can write the saddest lines
To be single on Valentine's Day
New Hampshire gold
She has a touch of gold
Caucus Interruptus
In which the Iowa Democratic Party fumbles, bumbles, and stumbles