I still think the story of the double amputee who became a mermaid is heartwarming and wonderful, but in my last post on this issue, I asked the question, “How fast is she?” and speculated on the future speediness of cyborg mermaids. Well, the video below pretty much answers the question as to how fast [...]

Testing to see if a plugin I just downloaded will automatically send this post to Facebook. Hope it works! Edit: Take two :/

Don’t let the title of this post fool you; I am under no illusions; I know, as far as nature is concerned, we are, every one of us, absolutely disposable. But though we all must die and existence is indifferent to our suffering, we have out little victories, our incremental gains.  Exhibit A: The mermaid [...]

I’ll be presenting in a few weeks at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in a few weeks; my presentation is called: “The Frame Is a Game: How On-line Play Reshapes Rhetorical Reality.” There’s been a lot of talk lately about the so-called “digital natives,” but my argument is that it’s the age that’s digital, [...]

I have two stories coming out in the near future that I’m very proud of — both with a Cuban theme. The first is a Cuban mystery story called “Los Simpáticos” that is coming out in the anthology Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery from Arte Público Press. The second is a story called “The [...]