What does Shark Week have in common with The Good Life? Absolutely nothing, however a move August 10th looks really cool and Guy likes to go to the movies. I also happen to like the wines from Greg Norman Estates and of course it’s SHARK week 😉
The MEG, written by international best-selling author Steve Alten tells the story of navy deep-sea pilot Jonas Taylor, who seven years earlier found himself on a top-secret dive in the Mariana Trench seven miles down in the western Pacific Ocean. Life exists in this 1,500 mile long gorge thanks to hydrothermal vents which create a warm layer along the bottom. Taylor comes face-to-face with the species occupying the top of this abyssal food-chain — Carcharodon Megalodon — the 70-foot, 70,000-pound prehistoric cousin of the great white shark.
Taylor narrowly escapes, but his actions cost the lives of two scientists as well as his career. His claims are dismissed as mere aberrations of the deep, but Taylor knows what he saw, and when an opportunity to return to the trench to collect an unfossilized Meg tooth presents itself years later, he’s intent on retrieving it to prove his naysayers wrong. Instead, man’s presence in the abyss causes one of the creatures to escape — a pregnant female — and now the race is on to capture it.
On August 10, movie lovers and admirers of toothy mayhem will feast on The MEG, the blockbuster movie adaptation of Steve Alten’s international best-seller, starring Jason Statham and Ruby Rose. To coincide with the movie, A&M Publishing is releasing an all-new special edition of his terrifying page-turner, The MEG, upon which the movie is based.
For more information, visit www.stevealten.com. For the spine-chilling trailer of the upcoming movie, click here!
Steve Alten is the NY Times bestselling author of 18 thrillers, including the MEG series. He is also the founder and director of the nonprofit Adopt-an-Author teen reading program. He is doing a limited number of interviews to support The MEG’s new release, and Good Life Guy has one of those…tune in Saturday at Noon.
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Later in the second half I’ll be talking to Tom Brown from Meadowlark Farm and Cidery in rural Rose Hill Kansas. This little bit of rain this week will make the already ripe peaches even better. Follow the Farm on FaceBook!
Meadowlark Farm is a Pick-Your-Own peach and apple orchard, pumpkin patch and Hard Cidery just east of Wichita, Kansas.
11249 SW 160th St, Rose Hill, KS 67133. www.meadowlarkfarm.com
Summer Hours: Tues- Fri, 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2014 Greg Norman Estates Limestone Coast Shiraz
This Shiraz is an attractive dark crimson red color in the glass. On the nose, rich chocolate and coconut mocha notes from the oak maturation underpin distinctive black cherry, mulberry and blackberry jam aromas. The medium bodied wine is soft and elegantly structured showing a spectrum of rich dark fruits including cherry, mulberry, blackberry, and boysenberry flavors on the palate. These flavors meld with fine cedar and chocolaty oak adding persistence on the long finish.