I don’t go to the movies very often anymore, but last week I was having my house sprayed for fleas and needed a place to hang out for a couple of hours. Since I no longer frequent pool halls and...
I never tried to wait up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve when I was a kid, because my parents told me that if Santa came by and I was still awake, he would skip our house. This filled me with a terr...
One day, I noticed a big hustle and bustle going on somewhere at the other end of town, so I asked my friend Dave what was going on. “The carnival’s in town!” said Dave. “Wow!&...
Oh, how fondly I remember the nostalgic Halloween that just happened to fall right in the middle of my “Pippi Longstocking” phase. I had just finished reading those wonderful books by Ast...
I was sitting in front of the TV one day, watching some DVDs that I’d rented such as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, when suddenly a thought occurred to me. “Why, I could make m...
Here’s a couple of things a lot of people don’t know about the classic Bruce Willis action flick DIE HARD. One, it really happened. Two, John McClane, the NYPD cop portrayed by Willis in...
Remember Arnold Vosloo, the guy who played “Im-Ho-Tep” in those recent “Mummy” movies? If you do, then you can probably understand how easy it is to become totally, irrevocabl...
(NOTE: In order to get anything out of this, you have to have seen both Stanley Kubrick’s classic masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and Coleman Francis’ classic messterpiece THE BEAST OF Y...
One evening, as twilight gently descended over my cozy abode and I was just settling into my beloved swivel recliner to watch a Mickey Rooney marathon on TCM, a large foot came crashing through my fro...