I wrote an article for the magazine Kumppani about the Iraq War movies shown at the Love & Anarchy Film Festival in Helsinki, starting next week. They put it on the net, it’s available here (in Finnish).
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Mike Pohjola keskusteluohjelma Mariassa
Kaverini ja rikoskumppanini Mike Pohjola oli keskusteluohjelma Mariassa uuden kirjansa tiimoilta keskiviikkona3.9.2008:
Lumimyrsky documentation
(Photo by Aarni Korpela) I created a documentation page for my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm), played in Ropecon 2008. You can access it by clicking on the link in the right sidebar or here.
Antarctic Research Blog #71: Scott of the Antarctic
Film: Charles Frend: Scott of the Antarctic (U.K. 1948) This is the old Ealing Studios version of Scott’s fatal, final adventure. At the time the movie was made, Scott was still a saint, and you can see it in the film. This is not a movie so much as a Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #70: Virus
Film: Kinji Fukasaku: Virus (Japan, 1980) Virus is an Eighties catastrophe movie about a virus that kills everyone on Earth except for the people living on Antarctic bases. Its definitely a Cold War movie, with the Americans and Russians sharing the blame for the apocalypse that follows. As sometimes happens Continue Reading
Married for the third time…
…to the same woman. On Friday the 15th of August, I got married to Maria Pettersson in Vanha kirkko, Helsinki. (The two previous marriages were in Las Vegas on the 7th of July, 2007 and in the Helsinki magistrate office shortly after that.) The wedding was as perfect as it Continue Reading
Polar index
Professor Laura Kay sent me a link to her website, which has an amazing index of books, movies, genre fiction, events, and other things related to polar matters. Here’s the link.
Post-Ropecon
Ropecon is over for now. I saw a lot of interesting programs, didn’t manage to see a lot of stuff I’d wanted to, and held a few program items of my own. My Roolipelaaja presentation experienced almost insurmoutable technical difficulties, but my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm) went well. I’ll put up Continue Reading
My DD4-review in Helsingin Sanomat
My review of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was published in Helsingin Sanomat today. Its also available on their website here. Its in Finnish.
Juhana Pettersson in Ropecon
The roleplaying event Ropecon is on 8.-10.8.2008 in Espoo, Finland. I have a number of programs there. Friday 20:00-22:00, the panel discussion Roolipelien dokumentaatio, in Sali 26 A Finnish-language discussion about the documentation of roleplaying games, led by Jaakko Stenros and featuring Johanna Koljonen, Juhana Pettersson and Jussi Ahlroth. 23:00-01:00, Continue Reading