by mike | Mar 24, 2022 | Aging, Films About Writers, Humor, Movies, Musical Theater, Uncategorized, Writing |
A truly forgotten film. Too bad. This post first ran in 2018. I can’t say that the 2018 comedy, Humor Me, did poorly at the box office. That’s because it did almost NO box office. It just sort of came and went, and we all missed it…and that’s a shame, as it definitely...
by mike | Mar 17, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My sci-fi/comedy Bicycling “trilogy” became a foursome when I wrote Back on the Bike Path in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. But back in 2018 I rewrote and revised the crap out of the third book in the series. Once again the trilogy is complete. My revised...
by mike | Mar 7, 2022 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
A while back, when I ranked the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World films, I mentioned that it was not a matter of Worst to First, given that I did not think any of them sucked. Good to Great was more like it. The same thing holds true for the four Ghostbusters movies. This...
by mike | Feb 28, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
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 enjoyed it for what it was. Get a life! Or an afterlife. The 2021 version, Ghostbusters: Afterlife,...
by mike | Feb 24, 2022 | Books, California, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Movies, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writing |
It’s interesting to see what kind of thoughts were running through my warped brain four years ago, when this post first ran. Okay, first of all I’m writing this on a sunny Southern California afternoon, and the next storm is not expected here till at least November....
by mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
When the pandemic drove us indoors in early 2020 (and wiped out the NCAA basketball tournament; I’m still not over that one…), I found a number of ways to keep busy. At that point I hadn’t written a new book in years, but circumstances being what they were, I decided...