by mike | Aug 10, 2023 | Horror Movies, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Is your spouse really your spouse, or a pod person? Is delusional misidentification a real thing? This post first ran in 2020. In the 1956 classic sci-fi/horror movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a young boy insists that his mother is not his mother. This is...
by mike | Aug 7, 2023 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Our hero “is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” right? Uh, no, that’s another guy. In the 2018 action/disaster film, Skyscraper, our hero, Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), can leap his way into the world’s tallest building, which happens to be on fire, while...
by mike | Aug 3, 2023 | Aging, Baseball, Curious Possessions, Humor, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
With seven-plus decades in the rearview mirror I’ve had plenty of time to collect a whole lot of “stuff.” Here is a look at some more “Curious Possessions” floating around my domicile. This post first ran in 2020. MUCH ADO ABOUT “NOTHING” Yes, “nothing” is pretty much...
by mike | Jul 31, 2023 | Books, Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
Magic is a key component in just about every sword & sorcery novel, be it benevolent or for the darkest of evil. In one of my early stories, The Sword of Tyron (original title: Berbora), magic is used to transcend time itself. I’ll show you one of those scenes—but...
by mike | Jul 27, 2023 | Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This sci-fi film has aged rather well, considering it first hit the silver screen nearly seven decades ago. I first presented this post in 2020. The above gaudy title was the tagline for This Island Earth (1955), a science fiction thriller from the “golden decade” of...
by mike | Jul 24, 2023 | Humor, Movies, Uncategorized |
A great philosopher (either Plato or Frank Zappa; I’m not sure) once said, “Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one, and they all stink.” With that in mind, I’ll reference an article that I read last week about twenty-five movies that, while considered “cult...
