by mike | Aug 29, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
This time travel novel, The Sword of Tyron, is one of my earliest efforts. I first presented this post in 2021. A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, 😊 recently wrote me to say that his old copies of my Sword & Sorcery novels, Berbora and Flight...
by mike | Aug 26, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sports, Uncategorized |
In my comedy/science fiction series featuring cosmic bike rider Jack Miller, I created a number of singular Heavens, called Afterwards. Jack visited his favorite singer, Harry Chapin, in the Rock and Roll Afterward, his beloved German shepherd, Barney, in the Doggie...
by mike | Aug 22, 2024 | Death, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I think there’s a vampire living across the street…and I’m in California. 😊 This post first ran in 2021. I could easily have presented the 1998 horror flick, Vampires (aka John Carpenter’s Vampires) as a Guilty Pleasure, since it met all of my parameters. (A D+...
by mike | Aug 19, 2024 | Action/Adventure, Disaster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the 2024 disaster movie, Twisters, with its numerous tornadoes dealing death and destruction all over Oklahoma. But its 1996 predecessor, Twister, holds a lofty place on my list of all-time favorite movies. Much of that has to do with its...
by mike | Aug 15, 2024 | Death, Disasters, Life, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
This disaster in the Big Apple preceded 9/11 by nearly a century. I first presented this post in 2021. The 9/11 terrorist attack on New York in 2001 was—and still is—the city’s worst disaster involving loss of life. Prior to that, the dubious record was held by an...
by mike | Aug 12, 2024 | Death, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Gaiola Island sits off the coast of Naples, Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, part of a volcanic archipelago. It is actually two rocky islets, connected by a stone bridge. Once occupied, it now sits abandoned as a result of its checkered history of drownings, murders,...
