by mike | Jul 29, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Sports, Uncategorized |
It’s not exactly a novel, but The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is one of the best reads that I know. The author, Paul Dickson, defines just about every word and phrase, common and obscure, related to the most excellent game in the world. If you’re a baseball fan, it...
by mike | Jul 25, 2024 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized |
Writing has always been a great outlet for me to vent, and it always will be. This post first ran in 2021. You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, “Writing Humor: It Doesn’t All Have To Be Funny,” I documented how my first...
by mike | Jul 22, 2024 | Books, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2008 “survival/horror” film, The Ruins, is based on the 2006 novel of the same name. Its author, Scott Smith, also wrote the screenplay, so he must’ve known what mattered in paring down the nearly 400-page tome into 90 minutes of screen time. Even so, the...
by mike | Jul 15, 2024 | Aging, Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
My new Jack Miller opus, Perils of the Bike Path, has just become available for public consumption as a Kindle eBook. The print version will be available shortly. The following post is also the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. You may notice—or perhaps...
by mike | Jun 10, 2024 | Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In advance of the release of Perils of the Bike Path (the fifth opus in my comedy/sci-fi series), I’m presenting an occasional scene from one of the earlier books. This one comes from the third book, The 22nd Gear. My cosmic bike rider, Jack Miller, has bicycled into...
by mike | May 23, 2024 | Books, Curious Possessions, Humor, Life, Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
With seven-plus decades in the rearview mirror I’ve had plenty of time to collect a whole lot of “stuff.” Here is a look at some more “Curious Possessions” floating around my domicile.
