by mike | Jun 27, 2024 | Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
You want SCARY? That’s exactly what you’ll get with The Changeling, an absolute gem of a film. This post first ran in 2021. The 1980 Canadian-produced psychological horror film, The Changeling, offers little violence. And forget about buckets of blood—there is maybe a...
by mike | Jun 17, 2024 | Death, Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
If I can use one word to describe the 2012 horror flick, Sinister, it is this: disturbing. But it did receive some decent reviews (a few “jump scares” and horror tropes notwithstanding), and it made a ton of money over its production budget. And, most important for...
by mike | Jun 13, 2024 | Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
A bit of “retro” that I hope will never make a comeback. This post first ran in 2021, with the pandemic at its height. 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...
by mike | Jun 10, 2024 | Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
In advance of the release of Perils of the Bike Path (the fifth opus in my comedy/sci-fi series), I’m presenting an occasional scene from one of the earlier books. This one comes from the third book, The 22nd Gear. My cosmic bike rider, Jack Miller, has bicycled into...
by mike | May 5, 2024 | Aging, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Jacqueline was my world, my everything. The bravest person I’d ever known, she battled and beat the demon cancer many times during our 3+ decades together. Two of those times she was “toe-tagged”—advised to get her affairs in order. Neither came to pass. But last...
by mike | Apr 11, 2024 | Aging, Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
This was an emotional chapter to write, but most cathartic. I first presented this post in 2020. When I wrote the first Jack Miller book, Bicycling Through Space and Time, in the ’90s, it didn’t take me long to learn that his many crazy comedy/satire adventures needed...
