still peeved/rubbed wrong by the ham-handed way #Vail is addressing this matter... #ParkCity patrons were impacted by last season's #skipatrolstrike whether or not they rode the lifts and risked life and limb on the slopes without the presence of trained emergency medical personnel... do better!...

new podcast episode - a conversation with legendary @columbiajournalism.bsky.social professor and celebrated journalist #SamuelGFreedman #journalism #books #publishing #authors @writersbone.com #writing #storytelling #academia #nonfiction #memoir #booktalk #AsToldTo open.spotify.com/episode/6do9...

already the most viewed #Kimmel clip of the year - perhaps my few followers will check it out and make it an all-timer... @jimmykimmel.com @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social #freespeech #FreeJimmyKimmel youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

say what you will about our so-called First Lady... she had the presence of mind to climb those stairs on her own... if she hadn't, there's a good chance our boy would still be stuck on those bottom steps... #escalator #UNescalator #TrumpUN www.meidasplus.com/p/republican...

new podcast episode - a conversation with legendary @columbiajournalism.bsky.social professor and celebrated journalist #SamuelGFreedman #journalism #books #publishing #authors @writersbone.com #writing #storytelling #academia #nonfiction #memoir #booktalk #AsToldTo open.spotify.com/episode/6do9...

ramble on...

looking forward to feeling enlightened and proud...

one short... @nytgames.bsky.social

weekend listening... #BaseballSky #BookSky #PodcastSky

maddening that #vail/ #parkcity take the position that only season pass holders who attempted to ski during last winter's unfortunate #SkiPatrol strike are eligible for a credit... what about those of us who changed holiday plans to avoid the chaos caused by the work stoppage? x.com/MorningBrew/...

ah, the life of a major league baseball... for more on a baseball's journey (and the travels of one baseball in particular), consider reading my book "The Ball" - "one of the great quirky masterpieces of baseball journalism," according to @espn.com: a.co/d/cfvaL7V www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

nothing says Americans are doing great under Trump like soaring #HamburgerHelper sales... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

still spinning at the podshop... play ball! - and listen wherever you podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2Igf... #storytelling #booksky #writinglife #books #authors #baseballsky ⚾️ ⚾️ ⚾️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SH58j1/

"We'd planned for everything, it seemed, except the actual result." - @kamalaharris.com, #107Days @katierogersnyt.bsky.social #KamalaHarris #memoir #politics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

tell me about it... "While being gorgeous can propel your career — can we agree that #Newman and #Redford were the most charismatic screen couple ever? — there is also a penalty. It’s as though you can’t have too much." - #MaureenDowd @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

in which we learn that the groom has a website called #MisterChickenParm - where he posts reviews of #ChickenParm sandwiches, natch... cheers to the happy couple... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/s...

yes... “The power of the world always works in circles.” - message on a throw pillow in #GloriaSteinem 's bedroom... #talkingcircle #change www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/s...

wait, what?... www.washingtonpost.com/style/trends...

"Gonna buy five copies for my mother..."🎵 @alfranken.bsky.social @rollingstone.com #truth #power #satire #freespeech www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"There’s something rather glorious about a song inspired by a mundane, unrequited workplace crush (or so it would have been seen as, at the time) being so beautiful." - @elongreen.bsky.social @slate.com #songwriting #Kristofferson #BobbyMcGee #BarbaraMcKee #inspiration slate.com/culture/2025...

“I watch culture. I’ll watch #TikTok almost like a scientist would watch it. I want to see where the ball is going in my business.” - #ReeseWitherspoon www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/m...

"Your blood sings with purpose. Why do you think the vampire finds it so sweet?" - @joe-hill.bsky.social #books #writing #horror #essay www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

cover cover... @newyorker.com

"If we do not have the ability to criticize, mock, investigate our leaders, then we are no longer the United States of America." - #JakeTapper @colbertlateshow.bsky.social #StephenColbert youtu.be/6KXiVt1Yc64?...

'twas a simpler time, yes?...

still spinning at the podshop... play ball! - and listen wherever you podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2Igf... #storytelling #booksky #writinglife #books #authors #baseballsky ⚾️ ⚾️ ⚾️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SH58j1/

"He’s, like, my favorite guy in #baseball. My favorite player. I hate to say that about a pitcher. I kind of joke, like, I’d spend money to buy his jersey.”-career rival #PaulGoldschmidt on #Dodgers pitcher #ClaytonKershaw @andymccullough.bsky.social @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...

"We see where this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous...you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal...” #DavidLetterman on @jimmykimmel.com #suspension variety.com/2025/tv/news...

first week downloads for this one are on blast... perhaps give a listen... @ballgirl.bsky.social @grandcentralpub.bsky.social #MakeMeCommissioner #baseball #podcast #writinglife #sportswriting #storytelling #AsToldTo #books open.spotify.com/episode/2Igf...

" #StarlingLawrence... could be sharp as a stiletto with his writers, and he was as needy in his way as they were. But he was supremely good at what he did. He probably would cut that last sentence, but sadly, he can’t." #DavidIgnatius @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

" #Baseball can't tell the stories it used to tell so well because those stories don't exist anymore." - #AsToldTo podcast guest @ballgirl.bsky.social, author of the just-published "Make Me Commissioner" #storytelling @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @writersbone.com open.spotify.com/episode/2Igf...

now this is an obit... “ #Redford has never been so radiantly glamorous as when we saw him through Barbra Streisand’s infatuated eyes." - #PaulineKael #RobertRedford #RIP #BrooksBarnes www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

when you have 12 games left to play and your network partner is a little too into it... #Mets #baseball

oh no... #RobertRedford #RIP www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

just the statistical facts, ma'am... #VicePodcaster www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SDsYNA/

"... this is not the end of my work. I still believe in the power of the pen. My values have not changed." @karenattiah.bsky.social #Journalism #truth open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

weekend listening... #BaseballSky #BookSky #PodcastSky

another #bookriffle!... #booktok #booksky #memoir #Cousteau #JeanMichelCoustrau #NatGeo www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SBQHjY/

CONFESSION: I don't read the "Art/Architecture" section of the NYT Arts & Leisure "New Season" feature... go ahead and judge...

"... life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is." #CameronCrowe #davidmarchese #TheInterview #TheUncool #memoir www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/m...

now spinning at the podshop... @ballgirl.bsky.social #baseball #BookSky #AuthorSky www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...

late to this, but my goodness... #ShameOnUS... "It’s as if a fashion designer had set up a table in front of a department store to sell knockoffs of his own company’s products, at the expense of its shareholders." - #DavidDKirkpatrick #thenumber @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

resting Bill Murray/Caddyshack face...

"Learning to live in a near-constant emergency feels too much like the experience of living in remission from cancer: a state of ceaseless uncertainty that my wife and I have learned to accept... But this is how we live now. This is where we live." #DanO'Brien #Sept11 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

now spinning at the podshop... @ballgirl.bsky.social #baseball #BookSky #AuthorSky www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...

" #Baseball can't tell the stories it used to tell so well because those stories don't exist anymore." - #AsToldTo podcast guest @ballgirl.bsky.social, author of the just-published "Make Me Commissioner" #storytelling @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @writersbone.com open.spotify.com/episode/2Igf...

new #astoldto season!... a chat with acclaimed sportswriter @ballgirl.bsky.social - available wherever podcasts gather... here's the #ApplePodcasts link: share.google/2gxFcPInyiUx... #baseball #biography #writing #BookSky @writersbone.com @grandcentralpub.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SLtvpn/

big ups to #CarmeloAnthony on his well-deserved HOF induction... big ups, too, to podcast guest @dwatkinsworld.bsky.social for helping to tell #Melo 's story in such a compelling, organic way... #basketball #memoir #writing #collaboration 🏀

let us count the ways... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

good on 'ya, NY... #boo #hiss #sigh #USOPEN www.threads.com/@amy_siskind...