by mike | May 5, 2022 | Baseball, Humor, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
This wonderful film was “based on a true story” from long ago, and I happened to be around long ago to witness it live. The 2009 film, The Perfect Game, was one of those “came-and went” movies that most folks weren’t even aware of when it breezed through their local...
by mike | Apr 21, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Well, apparently quite long, as there has already been a seventh entry in the series to hit the small screen. This post first ran in 2018. The 2018 monster movie, Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, is the sixth in a film series that began with the 1990 release, Tremors,...
by mike | Apr 18, 2022 | Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
Indeed he is, still the reluctant hero in my recently published novel, The Horrors of Harrmel. Bernie first appeared in my 2016 Sword & Planet spoof, The Wizard from Harrmel, where he was zapped up from an Iowa cornfield and deposited on the deadly planet of...
by mike | Apr 4, 2022 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
No, we’re not talking about William Shakespeare, or his wife, Anne Hathaway—not exactly, anyway. This is about Luella “Lu” Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton), stars of the delightful BBC British detective/comedy series, Shakespeare and Hathaway:...
by mike | Mar 24, 2022 | Aging, Films About Writers, Humor, Movies, Musical Theater, Uncategorized, Writing |
A truly forgotten film. Too bad. This post first ran in 2018. I can’t say that the 2018 comedy, Humor Me, did poorly at the box office. That’s because it did almost NO box office. It just sort of came and went, and we all missed it…and that’s a shame, as it definitely...
by mike | Mar 17, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My sci-fi/comedy Bicycling “trilogy” became a foursome when I wrote Back on the Bike Path in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. But back in 2018 I rewrote and revised the crap out of the third book in the series. Once again the trilogy is complete. My revised...
