Showing posts with label HOOVER DAM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOOVER DAM. Show all posts

Saturday, February 29, 2020

I SURE DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING

Check out my reviews, online at Phoenix Magazine, of the new Universal-Blumhouse version of The Invisible Man


…and the 1940 crime programmer Marked Men...


...filmed in Tempe, which shows this Wednesday, March 4, at Tempe History Museum.


The great Brazilian horror star Jose Mojica Marins—aka Ze do Caixao, aka, to his small but devoted cult of English-speaking fans of which I am a proud member, Coffin Joe—has departed this realm of reality, at the age of 83. 


Just recently I was delighted to meet a young Brazilian Lyft driver in Seattle who knew of Coffin Joe (and was astounded that I did). Here and here are some things I've written about him. RIP, you sick and twisted and perversely endearing genius.

On behalf of The Day Gig, I had the honor this week of addressing the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary of Boulder City, Nevada…


…after which I was given a behind-the-scenes tour of Hoover Dam Mercantile. I’m not great with heights, but it’s undeniably a majestic place...





Also, I saw bighorn sheep in the wild for the first time, if memory serves. And I made this pal at a Sinclair station in Boulder City…


Tuesday, March 18, 2014

STRIP CLUBBED

Your Humble Narrator is back after a couple of days in Vegas, where I got roughed up in broad daylight by Marvel Comics riffraff, right on The Strip. The Kid got a picture of the ugly incident…


Here we are overlooking Lake Mead on the way back to Phoenix…


Out on DVD is the Disney smash Frozen. Check out this pretty cool version of “Let It Go” in a bunch of languages...