Bardball

memoirs about the theater of the absurd.

Humor and the writing life. Chicago. Cocktails. Monkeys.

Personal essays, stuff on the writing life, movies & books, Judaism, and lots of references to Chico Marx. Drafted on typewriter, edited in MS Word on a Mac, presented to you on SubStack. Serious stuff with a humorous foundation

Books & book-adjacent topics, taking the long view, the writing life, and related resources. Posts every 5-6 days.

Baseball Buddha is memory, meditation, and critique, using the game to expose culture, test character, and reflect the society we’ve built.

Funny writing from The American Bystander, "the world's best print humor magazine."

A weekly newsletter about how right-wing extremism has exploited the weaknesses in American journalism, and what we can do about it.