Boxing reveals character, and if there was ever any doubt about Manny Pacquiao’s character, there should be none now. His actions before, during, and after the fight with Juan Manuel Marquez leave no doubt that Pacquiao the human being is blessed with courage, grace, and true (not fake) humility. The myth may have been diminished; [...]
It was mid-October, one of those hot autumn days in LA that are worse than the summer. We drove north from Los Angeles on 101 in rush hour traffic on a Thursday evening as the sun set over the San Fernando Valley. After an hour of bumper to bumper madness, the traffic began [...]
From the John Carter Files.
Transcript of the presentation by Michael D. Sellers on John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood at the Edgar Rice Burroughs Centennial Celebration on August 16, 2012.
INTRODUCTION BY DR. ROBERT ZEUSCHNER
As you all know, this is the hundredth anniversary of Tarzan of the Apes [...]
Michael Sellers’ father died in 1972; he made this video in tribute, 40 years later, on Veterans day. The HD video is best viewed by clicking on the full screen icon.
Reprinted from The John Carter Files.
One of the early advance readers of John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood has been Richard Lupoff, who has been following the saga of John Carter closely since the beginning. For those who aren’t familiar — Dick Lupoff was at the forefront of the “Burroughs [...]
From MichaelDSellers.com
When I was a senior in High School, I was s fortunate enough to be considered for football scholarships by a handful of colleges, including Brown University in Rhode Island. I liked Brown . . . it was Ivy League but had a certain outlier quality to it that appealed to me. [...]
Reprinted from MichaelDSellers.com The original post has been viewed by more than 1 million on MichaelDSellers.com and countless more on the more than 50 Philippine publications who reprinted the article. In all, there were more than 400,000 Facebook Shares of the article, which is not about boxing — rather it is about the Philippine [...]
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of John Stewart, the legendary songwriter who inspired me on more levels that I can begin to explain. He left us in 2008 but he’s not gone: his voice, his spirit and his ideas continue. I originally wrote this tribute on what would have been his 72nd [...]
Reposted from MichaelDSellers.com
For Americans in 1901, the Balangiga Massacre in the Philippines was the 9/11 attack of its day — a shattering, out-of-the-blue assault (or so it was initially reported) on an unsuspecting U.S. Army unit that was “peacefully occupying” the port town of Balangiga on the Southern coast of the island of Samar. [...]
Reprinted from MichaelDSellers.com
The deep and mystical allure of fishing has been with me since I can remember. I’ve loved the mere presence of the ocean — I could stare at for hours, and be nurtured by it, and calmed by it. And as I watch it form the sore, or a balcony, [...]
