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The entire March has almost gone without posts here. But it has been an exceptionally excellent month for me. Being an anxiety ridden individual, now I am afraid the world will crash around me to ruin it all. But, inspired by this comic by Darko Macan, a great SF writer and the person who first […]
Read More Marching on…Sometime in January I bought a collection of speculative fiction in Spanish (here, should you happen to be interested). I figured I’d muddle through is somehow or other, I did study Italian, after all and if I apply myself… Well, so far I have read none. I still might. I am very glad I supported […]
Read More How about a castle in Spain?Next weekend – February 28- March 1, 2015 – Zagreb is hosting a regional LARP convention, PoRtaL 2015, run by larpers for larpers, with free entrance. The name might look strange, but, as is the custom in geeky pursuits, has meaning: P stands for “play” and for “PoRtaL”, R for “role-play” and L “Larp”. Their […]
Read More PoRtaL 2015It always seemed so wrong to me, seeing kids in American movies don scary costumes in the middle of autumn and go trick or treating. Ringing at doors to get donuts is a winter practice and one could go as whatever one wanted to be. A ballerina, a princess, a typist or a rocket […]
Read More PokladeI remember Eurovision being a big deal when I was a kid. It was a very exciting event; one simply did not spend it NOT watching the TV programe which brought so many hit songs. Croatia, of course, competed as part of Yugoslavia since its début in 1961. I am old enough to remember when […]
Read More Australians at Eurovision!