by mike | Jun 22, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I love movies with anything large and deadly that crawls, flies, slithers, shuffles, swims, etc.—a thought that I shared in this 2013 post. My dear bride is not into my kind of bad movies, so I usually watch them when she’s out. When she’s home, we watch mutually...
by mike | Jun 19, 2017 | Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized, War Movies |
I don’t know why—maybe it’s the militancy and negativity that pervades our world these days—but I’ve been watching quite a few war movies of late. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from a few of them. “Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that....
by mike | Jun 12, 2017 | Humor, Life, Movies, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized |
Sedona is a funky town in central Arizona, one of our favorite places to visit. Sedona is also a 2011 indie film, a comedy-drama that, unfortunately, not a whole lot of people got to see. That’s a shame, because the movie more than capably reflects both the stunning...
by mike | Jun 8, 2017 | Books, Horror, Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
In this 2013 post I talked about a great story that fit perfectly into my novel, The Burning Ground. That book is available on a Kindle Countdown Deal for one more day. Yeah, I know: most people say “The Lone Ranger and Tonto” rather than the other way around, but to...
by mike | Jun 5, 2017 | Blowing Shit Up, Books, California, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Native Americans, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Renowned director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) has had his share of hits and misses during a long career. Among the latter is Ghosts of Mars, a 2001 sci-fi/horror flick that bombed big-time, both critically and at the box office. A true Guilty Pleasure,...
by mike | May 29, 2017 | Life, Movies, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
“Dammit, I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.” When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) uttered those words forty years ago in the classic Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he was attempting to shape the Devils Tower...
