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Andrew Forbes
@utilityofboredom.bsky.social
Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario

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"Limpid jets of love." Hey, Crash, does that mean what I think it means? "Limpid jets of love?"
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Just a heads up that mlb.tv will just start autoplaying Game 7 with NO TRIGGER WARNING
February 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I brought a half dozen 15 year old boys up to the cottage today. Let them do whatever they wanted to. It never got warmer than -18°C. They went snowshoeing, then played pickup hockey on the lake. The kids are alright.
February 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
I'm stuck in traffic.
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Moonlight on snow
February 1, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Beautiful day to get the ODR up and running.
January 31, 2026 at 8:37 PM
A little chilly this morning.
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
oh but sure it's gonna write legislation and research papers and poems and paint the most beautiful paintings

foh
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Busy planning the next thing.

When I'm working on fiction I find it helpful to draw up a timeline, and that's what I'm doing tonight, with a Bill Evans record on the turntable and Bucks-Sixers on TV. Ultimately a meaningless task, but it's good to focus on something other than the end of things.
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Winter Saturday night: this and a beer and a book and Sens-Habs (which started badly for OTT, then got really good, then ended badly).
January 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Curt Flood filed his lawsuit against Bowie Kuhn et al. OTD in 1970, for which Kyle Tucker is no doubt very, very grateful.
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Snow day afternoon beers with a pal at The Pig's Ear.
January 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Back in the barn for the Connor McDavid OHL Top Prospects Game.
January 15, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I was thrilled to arrive home from our holiday earlier this week to find that this gorgeous thing had arrived from @thetwinbill.bsky.social

I'm grateful! So nice to think of the book reaching some readers who are on its wavelength.
January 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
January 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Another weekend, another gym, another tournament.
January 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Been a truly great winter holiday but a series of mishaps and odd circumstances means that today we're going to touch 3 continents in 24 hours before, hopefully, making it back to dig our car out of a snowbank and then drive home. I miss the cat.
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Happy New Year from Falassarna, Crete.
December 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Preach, Mary Oliver
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Merry Christmas from Nafplio, Greece.
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wallace and Davis!

Honestly, White Christmas night is one of my favourite nights of the year. We usually watch it on Christmas Eve, but circumstances this year mean tonight is the night.

I wrote about it many years ago:

A Little Larceny — sinkhole share.google/YnjFIiSxcpBx...
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Happy holidays from the guys.
December 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Whirlwind 24 hrs in Toronto, just enough time to grab coffee with a friend, meet my Christie to take in the Flemmish Masters exhibit at the ROM, dine, then head to the Paradise for my first Basement Revue. I read new work, which is always terrifying, but as promised the BR audience was wonderful.
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I guess he means... this?
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm so happy that @thetwinbill.bsky.social named Field Work their best nonfiction baseball book of 2025. They have great taste* so this one's special.

*need proof? they also recognized Chasing Baseball by
@tigerpride.bsky.social

Now let's all guilt the TB folks into being more active on Bsky.
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM