by mike | Sep 14, 2020 | Aging, Death, Fantasy, Movies, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
British actress Diana Rigg passed away last week at the age of 82 from cancer. She had a long and successful award-winning career in theater, film, and television. But her most iconic role—at least for us older folks—was that of Emma Peel, the kick-ass government...
by mike | Jun 8, 2020 | Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
This Tom Cruise-fueled reboot, The Mummy, is a serious contender for the guiltiest of my Guilty Pleasures. It lost a chunk of change for the studio, and it has an anemic 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes due to its brutal reviews. And if that’s not enough, the film...
by mike | May 11, 2020 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Not much to laugh about these days, so for a break from all of the bad news, here is a rather outrageous scene from The 22nd Gear, the third book in my “Bicycling” trilogy. The setup: my protagonist, Jack Miller, has ridden his mountain bike onto a world where lesser...
by mike | Mar 23, 2020 | Death, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The original Twilight Zone series, which ran from 1959-1964, shows up on numerous lists of the best television series of all time. The legendary Rod Serling, who served as the narrator/host, created the series, and he scripted nearly sixty percent of the 156 episodes....
by mike | Jan 13, 2020 | Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
I absolutely love The Lord of the Rings, both Tolkien’s classic novel and the sprawling epic film series of Peter Jackson. There are countless memorable lines from the latter, which makes the following merely a small sample. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Gandalf (when...
by mike | Aug 19, 2019 | Books, Death, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
I recently got the chills—not in a good way, either—watching a nearly six-decades-old episode of the original “Twilight Zone” titled, “The Obsolete Man.” Given the current disturbing state of politics in this country, if not the world, I think you’ll understand why....
