by mike | Feb 24, 2025 | Movies, Museums, Science Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
My late bride and I used to make one or two trips a year to Iowa. Jacqueline was a born and raised, corn-fed Hawkeye and always enjoyed showing me around the state. One highlight was the small town of Riverside, a few miles south of Iowa City, population a tad over...
by mike | Jun 19, 2023 | Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Last month I watched the classic 1956 science fiction movie, Forbidden Planet, for the 300th time. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but I have viewed it many times over the course of six-plus decades. It never gets old, and its production values were way ahead of their...
by mike | May 1, 2023 | Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The late, ultra-great Leonard Nimoy (a distant relative of mine) began his acting career in 1951, fifteen years before he achieved well-deserved fame as Mr. Spock, the Vulcan science officer in the original series of Star Trek. Among his early (and mostly uncredited)...
by mike | Nov 16, 2020 | Aging, Books, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 18,764 of the coronavirus pandemic: enough already! I mean, freaking enough! Are we back in the Dark Ages with the Black Plague? And it only seems to be getting worse. My bride and I are still hanging in there, doing what we need to do as high-risk seniors to...
by mike | Apr 6, 2015 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This should be an easy one for you. What sci-fi show am I thinking about? It involves a starship traveling the galaxy on a deep-space exploratory mission. The captain is usually found in the company of his first officer and the ship’s doctor. Its plot is as much a...
