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    Just wanted to say…

    Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

    … that today has been a very good day.

    Jacked!

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

    OK, so one sign of not writing enough on your blog is having it highjacked and you don’t even notice. Bleh. Somewhere between May 27 and today (Jun 4), some nefarious party registered itself and inserted nasty code into one or more of my pages… possibly through comments. When I tried to [...]

    Thespiatic

    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

    Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything. Someday soon I’ll document what a blur my April and May have been, as explanation if not excuse. Meanwhile, let me share my tiny contribution to the recent play The Peter Pan Project, conceived as a community-written work. The prompt was, [...]

    The decline of American political reporting

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    As always, let me begin by stating I am an Obama supporter, so I’m a mite sensitive on the following. But it shocked me this morning to hear NPR’s coverage of the “debate” last night. We’ll leave aside the astonishing fact — which they tried to explain away — that forty minutes (nearly [...]

    Lunacon 51 (2)

    Saturday, March 15th, 2008

    Lunacon 51 (2)
    Some thoughts on my second con (should that be “sec-con”?), jotted down at midnight, though they’ll be posted much later.
    The first panel I intended to attend was “Yesterday’s Tomorrows”, a documentary on the failed vision of futurists from the 1930s through 1960s. Due to the weird layout and unpredictable spacetime anomalies that [...]

    Lunacon 51 (1)

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    Well, here I sit in the Hilton Rye Town waiting for Lunacon to get started. If you are paying more attention to this blog than you should be, you’ll recall that I attended Lunacon 50 last year as well. This year I managed to reserve early, so I am staying at the correct [...]

    Review: Marc Cohn at the Highline Ballroom

    Saturday, November 17th, 2007

    As is my wont whenever Marc Cohn wanders into the New York-Philadelphia corridor, I went to see him perform — this time, at the Highline Ballroom in lower Manhattan. True to form, it was a fantastic show with Marc the consummate showman. The opening act was Amy Correia and this time, Marc played [...]

    Alternate History: The Speech that Wasn’t

    Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

    In preparing my second Convocation speech, I spent most of the summer at a loss. Once I had changed apartments, I sat down in earnest. Eventually, I ended up jettisoning my original effort and producing the speech as given. But in case you wonder what could have been, below I’ll post the [...]

    Old nuggets

    Friday, August 31st, 2007

    Anyone checking the frequency of blogging for this site need not be told that I am not a natural diarist. I keep trying to start a regular compilation of my thought but never quite get in the habit. I have a journal I’ve carted from DC to Stanford to Bensalem to Princeton. [...]

    Hidden meanings?

    Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

    I don’t know what this means, but I’ve discovered something weird with the iTunes Music Store. I wanted to find a particular song by Bob Dylan called “Dignity”. But the search box won’t find it for me, instead returning an error: “We could not complete your iTunes store request. The iTunes Store [...]

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