by mike | Aug 21, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
I often amuse myself by writing crazy scenes like the one you’re about to enjoy. This post first ran in 2022. Erstwhile earthling Bernie Smith was zapped up from an Iowa cornfield to the deadly planet of Persus in my Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel....
by mike | Aug 7, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
This may not have been everyone’s favorite Indiana Jones film, but I thought it was fun. This post first ran in 2022. Actually, Harrison Ford will be 80+ when the fifth Indiana Jones film premieres next year. He was only in his mid-60s when he starred in Indiana Jones...
by mike | Jul 31, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
Pairing Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) with his dad (Sean Connery) was classic! This post first ran in 2022. The third film in the Indiana Jones series introduced film icon Sean Connery as Indy’s father and involved a quest for a Holy Relic. It also brought the Nazis...
by mike | Jul 28, 2025 | Aging, Books, California, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Last year, after I lost my beloved bride to demon cancer, I hastily—and painstakingly—finished the book I had been working on, Perils of the Bike Path (A Jack Miller Senior Moment: Book Five), for quite a while. At that point, deep in depression, I swore that I would...
by mike | Jul 24, 2025 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
The Indiana Jones films provide a plethora of great lines. This post first appeared in 2022. Next year, 80-year-old Harrison Ford will reprise his role as the intrepid archaeologist (Indiana Jones and the Last Gasp?) in the as yet untitled fifth movie in the popular...
by mike | Jun 30, 2025 | Baseball, Humor, Quotes, Sports, Uncategorized |
Sure, I’ve been a San Diego Padres fanatic even before moving to SoCal in 1973. But I grew up in The Bronx, and as a kid I lived and died with the Yankees. My heroes were Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard, Roger Maris—and the great Yogi Berra, a catcher with a...
