by mike | Dec 8, 2025 | Horror, Humor, Movies, Uncategorized |
My three daughters know this old guy pretty well. When it comes to choosing gifts, they’re always spot on. Case in point, when a delivery addressed to “Dad” recently showed up on my doorstep, I knew that Molly had sent it. But since it wasn’t my birthday, or...
by mike | Nov 24, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Death, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
With all the buzz about a new entry in The Mummy franchise on the horizon—the ones starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz—I thought it would be fun to revisit some of the memorable lines from the first two films. I’ll do The Mummy Returns next week. THE MUMMY (1999)...
by mike | Nov 20, 2025 | Books, California, Horror, Native Americans, Publishing, Research, Uncategorized |
Writer’s block has been around since primitive men and women had difficulty deciding what to scrawl on cave walls. This 2012 post would have been relevant even back then. Okay, I don’t mean to belittle a malady that is prevalent among so many writers. It’s just that...
by mike | Nov 13, 2025 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Uncategorized |
That line comes from one of my favorite films, EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS, which happens to be the first Guilty Pleasure that I presented on this blog, back in the Stone Age. Let’s talk about guilty pleasures. The term itself relates to something that a person enjoys despite...
by mike | Nov 10, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Adventure fantasy, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Uncategorized |
Yes indeed, I do want my Mummy, and by Grabthar’s hammer, I just might be getting it! I’m talking about the Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz-fueled franchise that began with The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), and to a lesser degree, The Mummy: Tomb of the...
by mike | Nov 6, 2025 | Books, Horror, Native Americans, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
My ghost story, The Burning Ground, was first published in 2012. Here is an interview I did back then about the book. Q: How did you get the idea for The Burning Ground? A: One of the most used and abused books in my collection is A.L. Kroeber’s Handbook of the...
