PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES SCARLET Didn’t I just write this column? Who’s stealing my days and hours? I’m up against some real time constraints here, so I think I’ll have to basically go pictorial this time. When I was noodling around the intertubes last week, I discovered this magazine called THE SCARLET ADVENTURESS, which I had never heard of before …
Another Cheese Magnet Live-Tweeting Event!
Our last CM live-Tweeting festival of goofiness (featuring Van Nuys Blvd) was a heck of a lot of fun, so me and Tanzi are doing it again this Friday, April 22, at 9:00 PM PST — and this time we’ll be watching the Peter Fonda/Jerry Reed truckersploitation classic High-Ballin’ (1978). The flick is on Netflix streaming so you can follow …
Cool Actor of the Week: Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson was a defensive back with several NFL/AFL teams in the early 1960s. His propensity for hard hits earned him the nickname “The Hammer” and he quickly became an intimidating presence on the field. He retired in 1968 and, inspired by Jim Brown’s success in Hollywood, he decided to give acting a try.
Blasts from the Past: “The Rat Patrol”
Two-fisted pedal-to-the-metal World War II action that stirred the blood of a whole generation of boys. In Color.
The House on Skull Mountain (1974)
I’m sure I must’ve heard of this flick somewhere along the line, but I had no idea what to expect from it. When it turned up on Netflix streaming I figured I’d give it a shot. A “Chocolate Chip and Pinto Co-Production,” The House on Skull Mountain starts out with a bang, as we see the titular house resting atop …
Classic Rock Sunday: Van Halen
We’re going with the big guns for this week’s Classic Rock Sunday. Van Halen dominated the hard rock scene in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Their rise coincided with the birth of MTV and the antics of front man David Lee Roth were perfectly suited for the new music video format. Van Halen was formed in Pasadena in 1974 …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: SO, HOW MUCH DOES THIS STUFF COST, ANYWAY? Good question. To get an answer, I went to eBay, the greatest flea market in the world and did a quick search in the category of: “magazines, back issues” in the “pulp” subdivision. 2609 lots were listed. Not all of them, oddly enough, were actually pulp magazines, so …
The Blue Man
The Blue Man is a crappy old Super-8mm silent movie me and my pals John Howard and Mike Peck made back around 1979 or thereabouts. It was never finished thanks to a traumatic processing disaster — we shot more than you see here, including a huge fight sequence that included Mike’s little brother David, but sadly, that was lost forever. …
Classic Rock Sunday – The Cars Revisited
Back on January 30, I wrote this Classic Rock Sunday post on The Cars, where I mentioned they’ve got a new album coming out. Since then, a couple clips from that album have surfaced, so I thought I’d do a follow-up and include the songs here. Both tracks sound more like Panorama-era songs to me than they do the later …
Famous Monsters Saturday
That missing chunk of the back cover is where someone trimmed a coupon from the inside back cover to order back issues of the mag…
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: A SMORGASBORG OF TERROR! Or, another romp through some pretty weird pulps magazines, most of which I’d never heard of before. There must be a million of ‘em. First up is the cover for TRUE STRANGE STORIES, May 1929, mainly because of another article I really want to read: “How I Get Paid For Being A …
Signing for A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell
A bunch of folks involved with the short story collection A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell will be signing Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM at Page One in Albuquerque — including a couple of Cheese Magneteers. The lineup: Bob Vardeman, Victor Milan, Scott Denning, John Jos. Miller and myself. Also, author Daniel Abraham will be on …
Cool Actor of the Week – Ace Frehley
Our pick for Cool Actor this week is another fellow who, much like Evel Knievel, doesn’t get a lot of attention for his acting roles. Largely because there were only a couple. But that won’t stop us from giving Ace Frehley the nod this time around. I’m sure you know Ace as “The Space Ace” from the original lineup of …
Hunter Prey (2009)
When this flick turned up on Netflix streaming, I added it to my queue but wasn’t expecting much. Then I noticed it was directed by Sandy Collora, best known for his Batman fan film, Batman: Dead End. That short film wowed ‘em at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2003 and I’m willing to bet you’ve seen it online, but if …