Zombie Boot Camp
A Japanese amusement park that has a “zombie-infested” haunted house made a promotional video showing off …
A Short History of Hostels in Ukrainian
I only stayed a couple of days in Belarus and then took a night train to …
The Real Reason Vampires Are Popular?
What’s Really Going on With All These Vampires? http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/vampires-gay-men-1109?src=rss#ixzz0U42HvI74 “Forget everything you’ve read about vampires so …
World Builder & What’s That?
Two cool short films that came to my attention recently. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNK6h1dfy2o
Back in Australia
I arrived back in Australia on Monday. I had a wonderful vacation. Eastern Europe is such …
From Melbourne to Minsk
After Lithuania, I went to Belarus, one of the last surviving communist countries. It’s a dictatorship …
Love’s Apprentice
I have a micro fiction story at Thaumatrope, a Twitter fiction magzine. http://thaumatrope.greententacles.com/tweets/20091002/
Baltic Banquets
I went to quite a few interesting restaurants in the Baltics. In Tallinn I had dinner …
The Villains of Vilnius
From Latvia I took the bus to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Like Tallinn, Vilnius’ old …
Jeff VanderMeer
American writer Jeff VanderMeer (one of my tutors at the writing workshop I did in Brisbane …