by mike | Dec 5, 2014 | Books, Humor, Life, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Dude, you gotta read this book! About a year ago I had the great pleasure of working on The Everweed State (subtitled E Cannabis Unum; how cool is that!) with author Rebecca Baumgartner, who had a good deal of help with research from her husband, Tracy. This...
by mike | Oct 27, 2014 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Fun time again with some memorable movie lines that span quite a few decades. Enjoy! “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.” Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) has many notable lines in the 1991 Academy...
by mike | Aug 11, 2014 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Memorable lines from our favorite movies are always a hoot. Here are a few more of mine. “Ah, dessert! Chilled monkey brains.” A dinner guest at one of the funniest and most disgusting meals you’ll ever witness grosses out Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) in Indiana Jones...
by mike | Apr 23, 2014 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
When I saw that Michael Gross, who played whacko right-wing survivalist Burt Gummer in the first three Tremors films, also starred in Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, I assumed this was yet another sequel. But no, this one takes place in 1889, about a century before the...
by mike | Apr 16, 2014 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A while back I wrote about one of my favorite dumb movies, the 1990 goofy comedy-horror flick, Tremors (see my post, “Guilty Pleasures: Tremors”). I’ve watched it many times, and while I knew that there had been three sequels made, I had always avoided them—until...
by mike | Mar 5, 2014 | Editing, Humor, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
I just can’t get enough of those great bad opening lines that have been submitted to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest over the decades. Here are some more gems from recent years. Hermann lay with Esmerelda, entwined with one another among love-tangled sheets and he...
