My collection was built at library sales and garage sales and used record stores where you could get harder to find stuff for cheap. Every record my daughter buys is $40 and I just sit there baffled.

Can confirm that a perfect baby can turn into a perfect toddler and perfect little kid and perfect big kid and perfect tween and perfect teen. Highly recommend good children and liking them.

New starting flute at Fairfield Warde. A 5-foot-2 freshman out of the Stratfield neighborhood. Keep an eye on Laurel Hoffman. She’s an animal.

The year Ichiro set the hits record he got on base 315 times. That would only be good for fourth best among Boggs’ seasons.

Honestly, Wade Boggs. I think he has somehow become wildly underrated/overlooked despite looking even better by modern standards than he did in his own era (and he looked great by those standards too). Better defender than people remember. On base monster. WAR darling. Outrageous prime, etc.

I am getting a pitch together for a story on how maybe it’s time to rethink if Paul Newman was cool. I hope I can find a home for it.

If you’re uncool enough they make a movie about you where Joaquin Phoenix wears awesome suits and falls in love with Reese Witherspoon and gets addicted to drugs. Typical hallmarks of uncoolness.

He didn’t shoot a guy in Reno just so some sad-looking guy could say he isn’t as cool as the guy who sang “he could throw that speedball by you”

Should we take another look at George Clooney while we’re at it?

I’ll spend the rest of my days contemplating how anyone could think Bruce Springsteen is cooler than Johnny Cash. Amazing stuff.

Actual conversation I once had in the editing process of a story

Them: "You can't say 'Jay Jaffe's JAWS system' because our readers won't know who Jay Jaffe is."

Me: "They will if I keep mentioning him in stories."