WonderCon 2010: Zombima...
A kind of Zombimania had taken hold at WonderCon 2010. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the place was totally packed with shuffling hordes of true zombies crashing after their umpteenth cup of caffeine. According to the WonderCon staff I talked to—in the hospitality...
4. Pachinko Palace (4)
Ryu looked up from his conversation. “Miura,” he muttered under his breath. Miura fought his way toward our table. It was clear he was terribly drunk. He swayed over the table and glared down at the proprietor, then shook his head and gave a dismissive snort. The club owner rose quickly,...
Afterlife Guaranteed
The surrealist poets were really onto something. Especially Nanos Valaoritis who was born back in 1921 in my mother’s town, Lausanne. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a while and that is where I became acquainted with him. He’s one of Greece’s most...