I expected Tokyo to feel more foreign. It doesn't. In some ways, London felt more alien to me, as cities go, but Tokyo feels like any other modern city. It probably helps that it isn't too hard to find someone that speaks English anywhere I go. I mean, the buildings are slightly shorter and I... Continue Reading →
My sci-fi flash piece, "Liberating Homer" is the October 11, 2024 story of the day at 365tomorrows!
It was a dark and stormy night. Yes, really. It's close to midnight, and someone is lurking in the dark. I was huddled in my room with the door shut, savoring a mug of tea, watching TV, and working on a cross stitch project. The rest of the house was dark. After all, Artoo and... Continue Reading →
Daily recaps of my adventures in London.
My (incredibly ambitious) goal for Star Wars Celebration this year was to write a daily recap for my own sake, while all the memories are still fresh. Here they all are:
We left our last full day in London kind of open-ended, in case unforeseen things (like the weather, or, say, a museum workers’ strike) forced us to skip something we really wanted to see. We did wind up having to miss the British Museum earlier this week due to a workers’ strike, so we rescheduled... Continue Reading →
Early this morning, we piled in a van (driven by someone else, fortunately) and headed to Stonehenge. We’d signed up for this tour (led by an Irish dude with ear gauges named Tony) that would take us to three of the farther-flung British must-see attractions: Stonehenge, Bath, and Windsor Castle. Now, I don’t know what... Continue Reading →
The best way to see the Tower of London, it turns out, is before it opens. Somehow, we stumbled across a tour package that let us in the Tower just barely before it was open to the public. We met our tour guide at the tower about 45 minutes before it opened, and were ushered... Continue Reading →
A leisurely stroll across the Thames this morning took us to Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. This Globe is not the original—in fact, it was completed in 1997. It turns out those pesky Puritans in the mid-1600s had the actual Globe dismantled when they decided theater was vulgar. (That wasn’t the original either—it had been a rebuilt... Continue Reading →
The final day of Star Wars Celebration Europe: Don’t judge, but I didn’t go to the Bad Batch Panel. I’m switching hotels tonight and I needed time to repack my suitcase; Bad Batch isn’t one of my faves, so I didn’t pressure myself to get done in time. The first panel I attended was hosted... Continue Reading →
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