End(er)

I grew up watching a lot of films that were totally inappropirate for my age. There was no control. There was a VCR and a lot of Betamax tapes we just called beta for short. I was lucky: my family was very well off and I actually owned a VCR. The beta tapes, as far […]

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Halloween

Figured out what I am going to be doing for Halloween this year. Instead of watching Arsenic and Old Lace (a tradition of mine) I thought I’d go for a movie marathon, of Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, especially since I still have not seen the latest installment, The World’s End. Which is SF.   Comments […]

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Reading fan-fiction (and sometimes, more often, writing it)

When you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]

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What to do on a Saturday morning?

Why, go to a Comics festival! Croatia used to have two, one down south, in the small coastal town of Makarska, on the way from Split to Dubrovnik.  It was totally awesome, run by two comics enthusiasts and publishers, with a huge (for Croatia) bugdet and loads of famous guests. This was Mafest and it […]

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A flashmob musical in memoriam

On Saturday, October 12th, at Rikon 2013, the third biggest Croatian SF convention, the Artefact Awards were given out, the culmination of the con for the old fashioned literary oriented fans as well as many who are not. This year the ceremony was short and sweet and before there was even time to think “This […]

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