The new book is a beautiful, perfect 12 pages long. I was honestly expecting to struggle a bit today to hit that goal, but I didn’t. We’ll see how tomorrow goes. The US crashed out of the World Cup tonight. And they really shit the bed on the way. Yikes. That was…not...

The Mexico vs England game was lit. LIT. My goodness. So much fun. My sympathies to the Mexico supporters, and my congrats to the English. I’m used to seeing England disappoint in the World Cup, to be honest, the same with the US. But they look good. We look good....

It sounds like a cauldron outside. It’s bubbling with fireworks, all across the valley. Or the sound of a battlefield, I imagine…but cauldron occurred to me tonight for the first time. There’s a constant background hubbub of all the far off detonations that really...