by mike | Dec 12, 2019 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Sports Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I’ve seen some of my favorite movies so many times that I can recite much of the dialogue in a lot of them. Here are some more of my favorites. This post first ran in 2016. “I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down: I...
by mike | Nov 11, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Mystery Films, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless is best known for her iconic, kick-butt role as Xena: Warrior Princess, in a syndicated television series that ran for 134 episodes from the late 1990s through 2001. She has hardly lacked for work since then, with numerous film and TV...
by mike | Sep 30, 2019 | Baseball, Horror, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
With seven-plus decades in the rearview mirror, I’ve had plenty of time to collect my share of “stuff.” I thought it might be fun to have a look at some of the more interesting things, so consider “Curious Possessions” the first of a new, occasional series for my...
by mike | Sep 19, 2019 | Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In case you couldn’t tell, I had too much fun writing the Bicycling trilogy! This post first ran in 2015. Last week’s post about memorable movie lines included one from the 1941 horror classic, The Wolf Man, specifically from the old gypsy woman named Maleva. The...
by mike | Sep 16, 2019 | Aging, Editing, Humor, Life, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing Quotes |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is considered this country’s greatest humorist. William Faulkner even went as far as calling him “the father of American literature.” Here are some of his best and most meaningful quotes....
by mike | Sep 12, 2019 | Baseball, Creature Features, Epic Fantasy, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
There are countless memorable lines from movies both classic and not-so-classic. Here are a few more of them. This post first ran in 2015. “Leave the gun…take the cannoli.” – Peter Clemenza (Richard Castellano) in The Godfather, the Best Picture of 1972. “I was...
