by mike | Sep 29, 2025 | Aging, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
That’s what I used to call the incredibly steep church driveway in my neighborhood, as you’ll see in this post from a few years ago. These days, it has become a ho-hum part of my routine walks, almost like it had never been a challenge. Well, that’s what I call it,...
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 | 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...
by mike | May 26, 2025 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
At this stage of my life it’s nice to discover a new Guilty Pleasure, and the 2009 comedy/horror movie, Infestation, fits the bill. My usual parameters—box office and reviews—don’t actually apply here, because I’m not even sure it had a box office, and the only...
by mike | May 12, 2025 | Aging, Humor, Life, Music, Uncategorized |
A question: does Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” which is the fourth movement of his Symphony #9, qualify as an oldie? Well, he wrote it between 1823 and 1824. Old enough for you? So what does this have to do with exercise? Okay, as a gentleman (ha!) of, ahem, advancing...
by mike | Apr 28, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The BritBox original series, McDonald and Dodds—a British crime drama whose setting is the historic city of Bath—ran for four seasons. There will not be a fifth. And that’s a bummer. To begin with, four seasons may sound significant, but they were only comprised of...
