Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Below is the Buffy action figure made out of vinyl. How important was the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ? See my entry ti...

I didn’t watch the new Star Trek on Sunday. The SyFy channel very cleverly ran a Battlestar Galactica marathon over the weekend, and I wa...

Crystal Collier’s blog takes its place as one of the more amusing ones in the blogosphere. A typical entry has her wry take on the world a...

In this Corner of the World is a beautifully animated, memoir-style movie. It focuses on Suzu Urano (married name Hojo). She starts out as...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer changed popular culture in more ways than one. It paved the way for the incredible dominance of urban fantasy in ...

This is not a negative blog. I try to report only on positive things. But once in a while, things are so frustrating, I want to comment. ...

I attended an all-day writing session today taught by Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey . In it, he takes elements of The ...

So I ordered a copy of The Daughters of Palatine Hill by Phyllis T. Smith as a digital book for my Kindle. (It’s historical fiction set in...

I assume you’ve heard of Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis. A photograph in the news accidentally revealed his phone number. It w...