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I’ve been enjoying all your speculating (and your well-wishes. Thanks!) so much that I almost don’t want to explain my beamish boy’s middle name just yet. But that wouldn’t be fair, especially because there’s no way any of you could guess…
He’s named after my father, Norbert Q Felber. Who wasn’t, at birth, […]

I’ve gotta run back to the hospital, but all is well. Only a week “early.” It was quite an experience, what with the screaming and the crying and the vomiting and the moaning. But after a while they calmed me down.
No, it went beautifully, and Baz is here. He and his […]

Barring labor, I’ll be in Santa Barbara on Thursday night, for a rare local “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!”
Of course, there is no barring labor. Our “official” due date is Monday, the 31st. So while it’s likely that I’ll be looking at Paula Poundstone, Paul Provenza, and Peter* on Thursday night, it’s also […]

So it’s Friday afternoon, we’re winding towards a fun “Real Time,” as far as I can tell, and spring is officially here. What better time to tell you about one or two things that perhaps you haven’t heard of that are Good.
1) Mike Doughty, “Golden Delicious”

The ex-lead singer of Soul Coughing has released his […]

I can’t think of anything better to post today than this.

I have one thought about this, really.
“President.”

We’re spending our weekend doing things that one does before a baby lands - moving furniture (cribs! gliders!), replacing bulbs (bizarrely shaped incandescents! Esoteric halogens! If I ever meet this joint’s designer, he will receive compliments and repeated face punches!), and acquiring a safe, efficient vehicle (a Prius!).
Yes, after some test drives, we […]

[I’d vowed I was going to take this “Real Time” hiatus week off of politics. Well, at least I’ll skip “funny” for now…]
I was telling some friends today that I’d heard some suddenly-disenchanted 20-somethings muttering about voting for McCain if Hillary Clinton won the nomination by what they consider dirty tactics. One response: […]

More later today, I hope.  Early tomorrow at the latest [I’m preparing a nursery and a few other exciting things - stay tuned].
But b’god, y’all need a new sheet of paper!  88 comments!  You’d think some kind of big… ongoing… important… thing was happening.

Last marked a big change in the campaign: It was the first election night since Super Tuesday that a Democrat congratulated another candidate on a victory. It is also the first election night since Super Tuesday that Hillary Clinton mentioned that anyone had voted, or that there’d been some sort of… result.
These facts […]

Yesterday featured one of the longest, hoppingest baby showers on record. It now seems quite likely that Jeanne is not faking it, and that some sort of offspring is on the way.
I haven’t organized our photos yet, but here’s a little treat. My friend Joe Furey did some major sleuthing to nail […]