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Instead of sitting around in Baltimore waiting for the con to start, I headed out on Friday to lovely Chantilly, VA, to see the Steven F. Utvar-Hazy Center. Which will probably ring no bells with you, until I state that it’s part of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. In fact it’s the part that […]

I’ve been watching movies about heroism this week. We caught Iron Man this afternoon, and during the course of the week I watched last year’s Beowulf.There was a lot not to like about Beowulf. The CGI gave the players’ faces an immobility that was distracting and annoying. (At times I thought I’d wandered into a […]

On Memorial Day, I had a couple choices. I could hang around the con hotel and watch Balticon die, or I could get in my rental car and cruise off in search of history. As you can see, this is not a picture of the con hotel. We are looking south across the Miller Cornfield. […]