by mike | Mar 17, 2025 | Action/Adventure, Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As a New York City kid growing up in the 1950s I watched a lot of that era’s science fiction/horror flicks, mostly on WOR Channel 9’s “Million Dollar Movie.” (Given the miniscule budgets of these films, maybe it should’ve been called “Thousand Dollar Movie.”) Giant...
by mike | Mar 13, 2025 | Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
These books are so much fun to write. I first presented this post in 2022. Indeed he is, still the reluctant hero in my novel, The Horrors of Harrmel. Bernie first appeared in my 2016 Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel, where he was zapped up from an...
by mike | Mar 10, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Death, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around the reality that next month will mark one year since I lost my beloved Jacqueline. Often I find myself floating around my empty house in a daze of denial. Still, she made me promise to take care of myself and to keep on...
by mike | Feb 20, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
After four entertaining seasons, this fun show reached its untimely end. I first presented this post in 2022. No, we’re not talking about William Shakespeare, or his wife, Anne Hathaway—not exactly, anyway. This is about Luella “Lu” Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank...
by mike | Feb 13, 2025 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
The GHOSTBUSTERS franchise is a veritable cornucopia of great lines. This post first ran in 2022. The 2016 version of Ghostbusters (Answer the Call), a remake of the original, featured an all-female starring cast. Many folks had an issue with that. I didn’t…I just...
by mike | Feb 6, 2025 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
I never get tired of watching any GHOSTBUSTERS movie. This post first ran in 2022. Having just watched the fourth film in the forty-one-year-old franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, I decided to feature these movies in my next three posts. This week: lines from the...
