by mike | Jul 3, 2017 | Books, Death, Humor, Music, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In last week’s post we left Jack Miller sitting in the waiting area outside the Rock-and-Roll Afterward, wondering who could have summoned him there. I suppose, from the title of this post, that you might have figured it out. Also, you might have guessed the name of...
by mike | Jun 26, 2017 | Books, Death, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In my comedy/science fiction novel, Bicycling through Space and Time (which will again be published later this year or early next year), and its two sequels, I occasionally offset the outrageous humor with chapters of a more serious—and personal—nature. Chapter...
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...
by mike | Apr 24, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Jamie Lee Curtis once called Virus, a 1999 sci-fi/horror flick, a “piece of shit.” Why is that significant? Because the renowned scream queen was one of its stars—along with Donald Sutherland and William Baldwin. The film, despite a lot of hype—even a line of action...
by mike | Apr 10, 2017 | Death, Disaster Movies, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A fine actor—and, from all I’ve ever heard about him, and even better person—Bill Paxton passed away a little over a month ago at the all-too-young age of sixty-one. A personal favorite of mine, Paxton played in quite a few of the fifty or sixty films that I include...
