by mike | May 16, 2016 | Books, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Romance, Uncategorized |
Okay, who hasn’t seen the 1987 fairytale gem, The Princess Bride? Not ever seeing it would be inconceivable! This film, an instant cult classic, is on countless Top Whatever lists in comedy and other genres. It is definitely one of the fifty or sixty films in my Top...
by mike | May 9, 2016 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
There are gifts, and then there are GIFTS. You know the kind: where the Giver is totally in tune with the Givee and knows what would be perfect. I received just such a gift a few years back from Lindsay Teunis, my oldest daughter. Don’t know where she found it, but...
by mike | May 2, 2016 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
Chris Eyre, director of the wonderful Smoke Signals, came up with another winner in his 2002 film, Skins, based on a novel by Adrian C. Louis. While this story contains its share of humor, it has a far more serious undertone than its predecessor. THE OTHER AMERICAN...
by mike | Apr 25, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Horror, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I am happy to report that Book Three in my “World After Death” series, Dark Seas of Maldrinium, has just been published. The story is a “revised-the-living-crap-out-of-it” version of a book that first came out in the late 1970s. It is also the first half of a strange...
by mike | Apr 18, 2016 | Aging, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I scored my first driver’s license as a teen in New York City, shortly after they invented the automobile. It listed my height at 5’10”, and it still says that today. Tell the truth, I don’t think I was ever actually 5’10”, but at 5’9¾” I guess that was close enough....
