Granite State Greetings:

Why did I pick the 49ers?  I am so glad football is over.

FAHIM SPEAKS news!

Fahim is in China with Robert Downey Jr. filming another IRONMAN movie. Check out Fahim in "Argo," which will hopefully win Oscar for Best Picture!

And ...

Another radio interview re: FAHIM SPEAKS (Amazon.com)! From yesterday, 2-4-13, with Military Mom Talk Radio (toginet.com). Our segment begins at the 30 minute mark ...

 

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Semper fi ... and Stay Warm!
MIM

Below Zero Greetings from the Granite State!

OK ... I was wrong about the Patriots ...

But speaking of snow and cold, I'll paste a photo from Norway, from March 1993, in honor of a real American hero ...

Weirs Times Sports Columnist Mike Moffett, a veteran of 1991’s Operation Desert Storm connected with the late General  H. Norman Schwarzkopf in 1993 above the Arctic Circle in Norway, where then-Captain Moffett was participating in Operation Battle Griffin, an Arctic warfare exercise.  Schwarzkopf had recently retired from the army and was in Norway for CBS-TV Sports. Video footage of Moffett’s men training in the snow aired the next year as part of CBS Sports coverage of the Olympic Biathlon at the Lillehammer (Norway) Winter Olympics. Schwarzkopf passed away at the age of 78 on Dec. 27 in Tampa, Florida.

Happy New Year!

Where's the snow? 

OK, I know it's coming ...

So are the Patriots ... They should beat Baltimore in Foxboro on Sunday to get to ANOTHER Super Bowl ... one that they should win this time.  They had those last minute leads against the Giants in 2008 and 2012. They could easily be going for theit SIXTH Super Win in ten years ...

Anyway, speaking of Patriots, my friend Fahim Fazli, the Afghan-American interpreter with the Marines, recently got a call asking if he'd be available to go to China with Robert Downey Jr. to film "IRONMAN 3."  Hope it works out.  Check out Fahim in Ben Affleck's movie "ARGO," which won a Golden Globe and is also an Oscar candidate.

I recently did an interview with Denise-Marie McIntosh that's running this week on Nashua Cable television - an in-depth 50 minute interview on our award-winning book FAHIM SPEAKS.

Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwuo0tzLubs

I'll also be doing an interview on Military Moms radio on Feb. 4.

More/better/later!

(Hope is snows/snows/snows in Foxboro Sunday ... Go Patriots)

MIM

December Greetings!

Christmas is coming and many of us have friends and relatives who still READ!

I just KNOW we do ...

If any of them are looking for a great true story -- a story about Hollywood, Love, Adventure, and Going to War with the Marines -- then the perfect gift would be our critically-acclaimed and award-winning "FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor's Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back."

And for less than $15!    Here's a handy link ...

http://www.amazon.com/Fahim-Speaks-Warrior-Actors-Afghanistan-Hollywood/dp/0982167075

And here's another link to a story abuot the book project that just came out on my college system's e-newsletter ...

http://www.ccsnh.edu/news/ccsnh%20enewsletternov2012/odyssey.html

 

Feel free to share or forward ...

Happy Holidays

 

and as the "Chosin Few" veterans say ...

Semper fi  ... and Stay Warm!

MIM

SkyBall and Marine Corps Ball

Granite State Greetings:

The big March investment in the USMC Evening Dress Uniform is paying off ... I got to wear the uniform at the MWSA Conference Awards Banquet in Dayton in September ... at the annual SkyBall at Dallas-Forth Worth Airport in October ... and at the Marine Corps Ball in Laconia, N.H. on Nov. 10, where I'd been invited to be Guest of Honor - a true thrill!

Here's a link to my Nov. 10 remarks ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvd8EiJxwx0&feature=em-share_video_user

Don't forget to check out "Fahim Speaks" on Amazon.com!

Semper fi ... and Stay Warm!

FAHIM SPEAKS notes ... Monday, October 8

Happy Columbus Day!

I know it's not celebrated the same way it was back in the old days, when it was always on October 12.  But Columbus changed the world, and some good things DID come out of what became the United States of America.

October 12 is no longer Columbus Day (unless it falls on Monday.)  Kind of like Memorial Day used to be on May 30, but now the traditional May 30 Memorial Day is not the contenmporary Memorial Day - unless, of course, it falls on Monday.  This year it fell on a Wednesday, but that didn't prevent Fahim and I from celebrating it with a FAHIM SPEAKS book launch event in Laguna Niguel, Calif.  Of course, May 30 is also Fahim's birthday.  And, BTW, it's also MY birthday!  (Please make a note of it.)

Anyway, we're looking forward to seeing Ben Affleck's new movie "Argo" which comes on on Friday, October 12 (the REAL Columbus Day.)  It sounds like a good movie, and I'm old enough to remember well how the Canadians stepped up and helped us out in Teheran during the 1979-80 Iranian hostage crisis.  And, of course, Fahim has a small role in "Argo," playing (what else?) - a bad guy.  I think.  But I haven't seen the movie yet.

Anyway, speaking of the book, I'm scheduled to be on WTPL ("The Pulse of New Hampshire") around 2:30 p.m. today to talk about FAHIM SPEAKS, presumably.

http://www.wtplfm.com/

I'll be interviewed by Jack Heath, who has his own book project out there, about the witches of Salem ... www.salemwitchtrilogy.com

October should be a good month for a book about witches ...

And speaking of calendar dates, while we're at it ... Why not make Halloween the last Friday of October - every year?  This year it's a Tuesday.  Halloween just needs to be on a Friday, yes?  If they're going to make Columbus Day and Memorial Day be Mondays, than why not Friday for Halloween?

Have a great week!
MIM

Check out FAHIM SPEAKS book reviews  at

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982167075

 

FAHIM SPEAKS wins MWSA Gold Medal!

The Military Writers Society of America awarded the 2012 Gold Medal for Top Military Biography to "FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor's Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back" at the annual MWSA Conference Banquet in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 29!