by mike | Aug 15, 2022 | Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Last week, MLB played its second regular-season “Field of Dreams” baseball game in Dyersville, Iowa—on a field built alongside the film set of the beloved 1989 movie. The pregame show offered many poignant (read: tearjerking) moments related to the movie, including...
by mike | Aug 11, 2022 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
When it comes to “B” horror movies there’s bad cheesiness, and there’s good cheesiness. SEA BEAST slots among the latter, as I pointed out in this 2019 post. The 2008 monster flick, Sea Beast, originally titled Troglodyte, is one of many films in the SyFy Channel’s...
by mike | Aug 8, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Ghosts, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
My second Sword & Planet spoof, The Horrors of Harrmel, continues the misadventures of erstwhile earthling Bernie Smith and his bride, Thanna Dora, “the most amazing woman on two worlds.” Bernie got zapped out of an Iowa cornfield by a shaft of light and deposited...
by mike | Aug 4, 2022 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Bill Russell, a great basketball player and an even better human being, passed away last week at the age of 88. Russell had an, uh, “interesting” quirk that I’ve written about in the past. Here is that article. What does former National Basketball Association great...
by mike | Aug 1, 2022 | Aging, Editing, Humor, Life, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing Quotes |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is considered this country’s greatest humorist. William Faulkner even went as far as calling him “the father of American literature.” Here are some more of his best and most meaningful quotes....
