No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

I enjoy doing mini-surveys/quizzes, though I like to try to trace them back to see where they started. I still haven't found the actual...

Saturday Morning Edition's Scott Simon read a wonderful piece on this morning's show called "A Modern Day Mary and Joseph....

Dear Senator Specter: I am horrified by the way our civil liberties are being trampled by the Republican party in general and by our adminis...

If you've tried to access anything at dpsinfo.com, you might have seen a temp page from Network Solutions. If you've been expecting...

We had high hopes of being able to see Wicked when it came to Pittsburgh this winter. We knew tickets would go on sale on Monday, December...

Our cat recently turned 12 and seemed in pretty good shape. About two weeks ago, we noticed she was having trouble getting up the stairs. ...

On a rainy October night, Howard Dean showed up at a very well-attended fundraiser. Since I've been unemployed for most of this year, I...

As it typically goes, I fall in and out of fiction writer's block with great regularity. This year, I've written more fiction than ...

I've been pretty busy lately, as my lack of posting here can probably indicate. I started a full-time two-month contract job, helping to...

Dear Sir, The notion of nominating an individual without any experience as a judge to our highest court is completely appalling. However, ...

While I've been to a number of rallies in DC over the years, this is the first anti-war rally I've been to. During the Viet Nam era...

Yup, if you listened to Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know , broadcast over NPR from Cleveland this morning, that was me at the end of t...

"My brain hurts!" (the Gumbies on Monty Python ) We've long suspected that the average IQ of the average member of the Bush g...

Well, there's no doubt about it now - if you are poor, and there's any kind of emergency, there's no such thing as a government ...

I'm a movie fan. I used to go to at least 2 movies every month in the theater. Until this week, I think the last movie I'd seen in ...

OK, this one is Charlie Stross's fault... Your Travel Profile: You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (100%) Yo...

We had a great time at Armadillocon in Austin, TX over the weekend. Report from Texas

Well, almost ! Before I went to Scotland for Worldcon in late July, I was looking over my novel and realized that while I was doing a good j...

I've felt pretty crappy since coming home from Scotland, but, gradually, I've been doing some work on my novel. Probably not the bu...

Slowly, I'm starting to add photos from Scotland to my site. I have some up at: http://www.dpsinfo.com/sf/inter05 . I tend to be very ...