Mullets, Irony and L’esprit de L’escalier
A personal defense, a few months too late
Baseball, Music, Art, Memories & Non-medical Dalliances
Adam Cifu's personal writings
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Baseball Books, Spring 2026
What I read this spring
What I Heard at the Playground
and what I'd like to hear
Cities
An homage to the best places to live.
Baseball Memories
Basking in the nostalgia of personal baseball memories.
Retrieving Memories of My Mother
The memories of four hard years overshadow decades of better ones.
Cigarettes and Families
A habit that shapes the lives and memories of families.
Madonna and Child
The gift of a ubiquitous genre
Two Great Songs About Opiates
They always tell writers to write what they know. If you were a rock star of a certain time, opiates might have been known.
One Star Reviews
Adding to the list of things I'd give a one-star rating.
My Dylan Album
The voice and lyrics of the music I’d been weaned on, combined with the sound I’d grown into.
Fatherly Advice that Stuck
Some sticky advice that I remember word for word.
My favorite magazine article…ever
On re-reading, again, The Art of Dying, by Peter Schjeldahl
Old Friends
Are old friends really the best friends?
Unexpected Duets
Nine wonderful, and unexpected, rock and roll duets
Dreaming of Encore Careers
Seven ideas about what comes next
Artist I Loved and Now... Don't
There are things in life that we love, and things in life that we, well, could do without. There are also the things we once loved and not don't.
The Old House
It’s an old trope that the best things in life aren’t things, but some things are so closely associated with the best things that they become pretty great.
Collecting
An Evolutionary Glitch
The Middle Age Baseball Fan
Because baseball is not real life, you get to enjoy the declines