PPL FINALS AT PAPA A couple of days ago, on a rainy day in the Burgh, the Pittsburgh Pinball League held their finals at the PAPA facility in Carnegie. An all day affair that ran from 11 AM until after

I read a story and I would like to share my thoughts with you. I read a short story, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, called The Weaver and the Snake By Blaine Vitallo. You can find it here in audio

These Fight Clubs are a lot of fun, but what are they all about? So twice a week, just outside the city of Pittsburgh, we get together for a 3 or 4 strike tournament. I'd say on average 20-30 of us show

What is ReplayFX? For me - it's the event I look forward to the most every year. It's the home of the biggest pinball event in the history of the known universe. I call it Heaven. Visit the ReplayFX website

League finals begin with announcements, and my man Joe stood tall and made those announcements. But this post I want to stay away from the competitive side of the pinball (maybe because I was one and done

I've done the math, but the situation I'm about to describe does not add up for me. A credible eyewitness, a 911 recording, and neighbors who corroborate the details -- yet a dog is dead from traumatic

"He hit that dog every bit of 8-10 times, about 5 times before he stopped yelping, And then hit him some more." --eyewitness account from yesterday's post A Great First Impression Community leaders

Greetings! Mother Earth says hello! And The Oscar Goes To... No one. Awards shows are rigged. HANS ZIMMER SHOULD WIN EVERY YEAR. ahem Anyway, this session I have the distinct pleasure of coming up with

Let’s Make The World A Better Place Recently, someone on Steemit that I've come to know and care for, has suffered a set back. She was robbed. her dream business was destroyed. Simply ripped apart, gutted

Write Club Celebrates Its Fourth! Prompt. And I'll be the one coming up with it. They lost their minds when they gave me the keys to this castle. Let's Jump Right In My prompt is inspired by a story I

Have you ever felt inspired? I mean INSPIRED? I have. I am right now. Full-on lit with inspiration. It's radiating from within - my mind is sharp, clear and I see an amazing future and how to get there.

Made It! But it was close! I ran into a bit of writer's block over at The Writer's Block. Actually - I ran into a simple truth - my story was bad and I didn't want to write it. I'm pretty sure that is

Thank you to everybody who participated in the VOTU moving banner contest. We had a flood of entries and my pirate judges and I had a whale of a time filtering through all the crap to find your golden

An Era Ends Today I bring you all the sad news that this is the end of an era. It may be that you didn't know that there was an era, in which case I am introducing you to an era that is ending. The name

Machine Man Yesterday, instead of having a relaxing Sunday with my family, I spent hours putting together a machine. What machine? The machine that I hope can have a positive effect on my physical health,

Boooooooom News Presents: Coverage from the IFPA Pennsylvania State Championship CDS on the left and JON on the right. These 2 are fantastic! Photo taken by Doug Polka. The IFPA Pennsylvania State Championship

Write Club begins and I get inspired on the way out the door. Write Club started this week and (like I suspected) it’s hard. On Monday we got our first prompt and we were off to the races, but I was about

Today we highlight an all around good dude (fantastic pinball player and great photographer) - James Kunz. James lives in Pittsburgh, PA. He's currently ranked 1583 out of over 55000 in the IFPA WPPR rankings.

The last 24 hours have been super sweet! I got some good news and hit a milestone between last night and this morning. I love good news like this - but to be honest, pretty much everything steem related

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