by mike | May 24, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, “Writing Humor: It Doesn’t All Have To Be Funny,” I documented how my first comedy/science fiction novel, Bicycling Through Space and Time, came to be published in the ’90s. Berkley...
by mike | May 3, 2021 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
I thought you might get a hoot out of the first few pages of my latest literary gem, Back on the Bike Path. Since I hadn’t written anything for a while, it surprised me that I managed to ease into the story so effortlessly. But when my character, Jack Miller, is a...
by mike | Mar 29, 2021 | Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two (for crying out loud!) of the freaking coronavirus pandemic. Sure, it seems to be trending in the right direction, and many more people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, including my bride and me. But it is far from over, and I choose to listen to the...
by mike | Mar 25, 2021 | Blowing Shit Up, Books, California, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror Movies, Movies, Native Americans, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Rapper/actor Ice Cube is the bad guy/good guy in this sci-fi/horror “clunker” (according to the critics). This post first ran in 2017. Renowned director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) has had his share of hits and misses during a long career. Among the latter...
by mike | Mar 1, 2021 | Baseball, Basketball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two-plus of the coronavirus pandemic. Well, it might be “plus” for most everyone, but for me it started for real on a day in early March almost exactly one year ago. Hard to forget: I had watched a San Diego Padres spring training game the night before and was...
by mike | Feb 1, 2021 | California, Death, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two of the coronavirus pandemic: yeah, this time I’m not exaggerating. The first case of Covid-19 showed up in the U.S. a year ago, and here we are, still dealing with it. We can thank a non-response by an incompetent administration for a disease that, sometime...
