Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

1) This is a negative critique of Star Trek: Into Darkness .  2) This critique is based on respect for the Star Trek franchise.  I don...

Since I didn’t get a good picture of Tereshkova2001 at this year’s Norwescon, here’s a clip of her performance at last year’s.  Definitel...

I haven’t seen the new Star Trek movie yet.  But in anticipation of it, here’s Spock as you’ve never seen him before.  (You need to have ...

This is my third large purge of books I won’t bother to read or that I’m unlikely to read again.  (I posted about my first purge , but skip...

I attended a production of The Odyssey , put on by the students of Covenant Christian Middle School, which is run by Sara Loudon .  Fi...

On Saturday, I finished writing my novel manuscript, and I can now reveal the title:  The War of the Worlds and Fairies .  Instead o...

At first, Oblivion seems like a typical Tom Cruise movie:  A brief shower scene to show off his pectorals, his cruising around in a fast ...

A friend of mine is going to Britain this summer.  When I told her about the grave of Eleanor Rigby, she said that was a fictional charac...

This is for the evil perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing:  Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lo...