by mike | May 12, 2025 | Aging, Humor, Life, Music, Uncategorized |
A question: does Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” which is the fourth movement of his Symphony #9, qualify as an oldie? Well, he wrote it between 1823 and 1824. Old enough for you? So what does this have to do with exercise? Okay, as a gentleman (ha!) of, ahem, advancing...
by mike | May 8, 2025 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
My Padres are doing well this season. Maybe Jobu is helping. This post first ran in 2022. The 1989 baseball film, Major League, is one of the most outrageous comedies ever to hit the silver screen. The characters and their lines are still quoted to this day, over...
by mike | May 5, 2025 | Baseball, Life, Non-Fiction, Sports, Uncategorized |
Sixty-three years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier during MLB’s so-called modern era, a professional baseball catcher was credited with being the first black man to play in the major leagues. His name was Moses Fleetwood Walker. A HISTORY OF RACISM Born...
by mike | May 1, 2025 | Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This sci-fi thriller amazed readers nearly ninety years ago. I first presented this post in 2022. A magazine called Astounding Science Fiction, later renamed Analog Science Fact and Fiction, was highly influential in bringing the sci-fi genre into the mainstream many...
by mike | Apr 28, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The BritBox original series, McDonald and Dodds—a British crime drama whose setting is the historic city of Bath—ran for four seasons. There will not be a fifth. And that’s a bummer. To begin with, four seasons may sound significant, but they were only comprised of...
