Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

I saw the shark movie The Shallows , but this won’t be an actual movie review. I’ll just say there was a lot of blood, so if you don’t like...

A lot of the creative talent for movies has gone into television in recent years, so I’ll start a new category of reviews: TV series. (If I...

Just stick that bookmark in the back of your throat and gag. (Book Purge IV somehow didn’t get posted, but Book Purge III is here .) These ...

So, you think your boss gets on you? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, was famous for the long hours he put in at work. But what if you...

This isn’t a full review, because I try to keep this blog a positive one. This is a matter of clearing up expectations. If you want to see ...

So I was relaxing in a park in Bellevue (a suburb of Seattle) on Memorial Day when I heard a distant buzzing sound. Sure enough, when I loo...

I recommend these two books: Why I Survived the A-Bomb by Akira Kohchi. Mr. Kohchi was sixteen years old when the bomb drop...

Most of Totem Lake Mall in Kirkland is getting torn down. I remember before the mall was built, walking in the field where the upper mall n...

Marissa Meyer, author of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles that started with Cinder , announced at her blogsite that she would be signing b...