For my birthday, my family took me on a tour of haunted places of Vilnius. I was entertained by the stories of the famous ghosts of Vilnius, but even more so by the way the tour guide tried to tie them to her personal life ( Read more... )

I have a 3-week, multi-city vacation coming up very soon. June 7th I'm heading for Lithuania, and I'll stay there for a week. This trip will be different from similar ones I took over the last few years in that my parents won't be there. They'll be in Paris, where I'll join them a week later, to spend 10 days together ( Read more... )

Yikes, it's ArmadilloCon time, but still I have several vacation posts to write! I'll squeeze in one more posts before I head off to 'Dillocon writers' workshop ( Read more... )

I don't talk about it here often, but I've been a co-editor of a science fiction fanzine for 15 years. It's called Dorado Raganos, which means Witches of Dorado in Lithuanian. Dorado is the name of a science fiction club in Vilnius, Lithuania, that has been the home base of our fanzine in its early days. And we'll get to the "witch" part in a ( Read more... )

I've been back from my vacation for 2 weeks, and life is going full steam, as it always does. My visit to Lithuania is now a rapidly receding memory in my mind -- to use starlin_elvea's analogy, I now feel like that Chinese philosopher who didn't know whether he dreamed of a butterfly, or if he was in a butterfly's dream. But I still have a lot of blogging left ( Read more... )

vklase, who is a magazine editor, stopped by at the science fiction fandom camp for a couple of hours. He gave a talk (here's a picture) "On applied demonology, or how to overcome a writer's block". A surprising combination of subjects, you'd say? Those were supposed to be two different lectures, of which he asked us to choose one; since we couldn't ( Read more... )

As I said in my previous post, the camp was near an observatory. Not long ago, a person who used to be the head of the observatory built a so-called Museum of Ethnocosmology here, also referred to by the folks as Flying Saucer because of the resemblance. We toured this museum. Ethnocosmology may be a valid field of study of creation myths from ( Read more... )

As I said on Facebook and Twitter, as a part of my trip to Lithuania I went to a science fiction fandom camp. The camp is put together by members of Dorado science fiction club of Vilnius, Lithuania (thanks, gedas!), but is open to anyone interested in the genres of speculative fiction. There were around 20 people, and we all lived for 3 days in what ( Read more... )

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