Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Norwescon is the largest science fiction and fantasy convention in the Pacific Northwest with an emphasis on writing. They capped their in-p...

What do you mean, you don’t remember the animated version of Star Trek: The Next Generation ? Here is a snippet.   Doesn’t that bring ba...

This will be the last of the Washington, DC photos from my Worldcon trip for a while. You may wonder why I’ve strung them out over time. If ...

I don't know if I can recommend Death on the Nile . It's a sumptuous movie with beautiful people wearing beautiful clothing in beaut...

As I mentioned before, my itinerary for Washington, D.C. was a little different. One of the top two sites I wanted to visit was the Library ...

In the anime movie Belle , a teenage girl name Suzu is very repressed. That’s actually a step up for her from elementary school, when she wa...

Here is my tourist photo of the Lincoln Memorial. It is bigger than the back of a penny. This view of the steps shows how huge the pilla...

Believe it or not, one of the two top buildings I wanted to see in my Washington, D.C. trip was the Library of Congress. Here’s a rather typ...

One of the nice features of Worldcon is the opportunity for autographs and Kaffeeklatsches. It took a while to figure out where the autograp...