Mihaela Marija Perković's Blog: Rantalica, page 5
May 22, 2019
Famous Fan: Olga Matej
I met Polish dan Olga Matej during one of my trips to Pyrkon, but I do not remember which one. Might have been the first one, while my head was still trying to wrap around the fact that this huge event – more than 50 000 people! – was being run by volunteers alone. This […]
May 14, 2019
SFERA Awards
The SFERA Award jury was my entry into Croatian fandom. I spent more than a decade as president of it, and still love to keep track of who wins and who loses any given year. I think I might have missed only one SFera Formal Assembly on a SFeraKon Saturday in the last 15 years. […]
Sfera 2019 Award Winners
The SFERA Award jury was my entry into Croatian fandom. I spent more than a decade as president of it, and still love to keep track of who wins and who loses any given year. I think I might have missed only one SFera Formal Assembly on a SFeraKon Saturday in the last 15 years. […]
May 8, 2019
FAMOUS FAN: James Bacon
I have no idea when I met James Bacon, feels like I have known him for as long as I have been active in international SF fandom. Although I do know I must have met him sometime after I started going to British and US cons and Worldcons, since I do vividly remember being told […]
May 6, 2019
My SFeraKon Schedule
What does one do when the final program of SFeraKon comes out? One goes to mourn all the things one is scheduled against and swears not to suggest any more programming items in the future ever again. I am done with the mourning for this year, so here is where I have to be. As […]
May 5, 2019
Accountability: April is the Cruelest Month
Images of stuff written in notebooks disappearing haunted my dreams while preparing this post. Not kidding. I had a feeling this past month that I was using all my time, all the time, to keep track of where I am and what I am doing. It was exhausting! But I did get a lot done. […]
April 30, 2019
Istrakon turns 20!
IRijeka’s Rikon turned 20 a few years back and that was the best con I attended in a long while; I could the goose bumps the entire weekend, and long after. SFeraKon turned 40 last year and one could feel the organizers walking on clouds with excitement. Istrakon turned 20 year and there was none […]
April 29, 2019
Chasing Waterfalls – A Day in Central Istria
The notion of Istria, the largest Croatian peninsula, being magical gets repeated a lot, especially on touristy sites. But the fact is, a place that can make a coldish, cloudy, rainy spring Sunday seem like a gift from heaven must be at least a little bit magical Nope, not talking Istrakon, that I covered in […]
April 27, 2019
Books to Binge: All Aliens Like Burgers by Ruth Wheeler
I always feel weird at Croatian conventions, which tend to nurture an intimate and immediate atmosphere, if I have read nothing written by the literary Guest of Honour. It used to be so much easier, though, to binge read an author a decade ago than today. To get around that within my quite insane schedule, […]
April 26, 2019
My Istrakon 2019 Schedule
I love Istria in the spring, and I especially love Pazin in the spring, and not only because of Istrakon. The biggest Croatian peninsula is truly magical and I am at great pains today trying to decide which of my favourite places there I can squeeze into a very tight schedule since I am not […]
