by mike | May 21, 2018 | California, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, War Movies |
If you read this blog, you may recall that Part Four in this series appeared a little over a year ago. At that time War for the Planet of the Apes, the ninth film in the franchise and the third in the latest reboot, had not yet been released. It came out later that...
by mike | May 14, 2018 | Blowing Shit Up, California, Disaster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
We had an earthquake here in Southern California last week. Like, what else is new? The 4.5 temblor—its epicenter in Riverside County near the San Andreas fault—occurred just before 5 a.m., which means I sure as heck did not feel it. Two subsequent aftershocks also...
by mike | Apr 16, 2018 | California, Life, Travel, Uncategorized |
I arrived in California to stay about forty-five years ago. Jacqueline, my bride, did the same over three decades past. Yet neither of us, during all that time, set foot in Yosemite National Park, one of this country’s most memorable landmarks, and for sure the gem of...
by mike | Mar 12, 2018 | Books, California, Editing, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Bicycling Through Space and Time, the first book of my comedy/science fiction series featuring cosmic bike rider Jack Miller, was initially not supposed to get published. I wrote the three books during the late 1980s-early ’90s with the idea of preserving my sanity...
by mike | Oct 23, 2017 | Books, California, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
With Halloween nearly upon us, I’d like to share a creepy scene from The Burning Ground, one of my four horror novels. This is the final scene in chapter one, which takes place in 1849. (The balance of the story is contemporary.) The setup: gold has been discovered in...
by mike | Jun 5, 2017 | Blowing Shit Up, Books, California, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Native Americans, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Renowned director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) has had his share of hits and misses during a long career. Among the latter is Ghosts of Mars, a 2001 sci-fi/horror flick that bombed big-time, both critically and at the box office. A true Guilty Pleasure,...
