I think it's the having kids thing.
Probably. In my social circle, I have friends who are 10 and 15 years older with kids the same age as mine, and it tends to make me feel much older than I am.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Wolfram - Mar 16, 2004 6:56:08 am PST #1377 of 10002
Visilurking
juliana - Mar 16, 2004 7:41:57 am PST #1378 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Grey Matter
Which one was this?
My favorite King short story is The Mist. Creeeeeee-py.
Beverly - Mar 16, 2004 7:46:00 am PST #1379 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Grey Matter was the old guys in the town one over from The Lot, sitting around the stove at the store in the wintertime. High school boy came by every day to buy beer for his old man, who had been laid up with some work-related injury. The kid started spending a lot of time away from home. Nobody ever saw the dad, he just sat wrapped in a blanket in front of the teevee day in, day out, every now and then shuffling out the kitchen to get another beer from the fridge.
One day he got a batch of bad beer....
Katerina Bee - Mar 16, 2004 7:50:37 am PST #1380 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Well, and if whoever was responsible for Cujo hadn't changed the ending.
Verily. Another funny Stephen King rant is about how when Hollywood buys your book, they just want to tell you what's wrong with it, how to re-do it, and how about replacing the little old lady character with Lou Gossett, Jr., because he's available, and really marketable right now.
So: never judge a book by its movie.
Dana - Mar 16, 2004 9:40:52 am PST #1381 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How did Cujo actually end?
Signed, "Flinched Her Way Through the Movie, Because Rabid Dogs Are Scary"
Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2004 9:49:48 am PST #1382 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dana, in the book, the boy dies.
Count Buttinski - Mar 16, 2004 10:22:37 am PST #1383 of 10002
Now I have to start over. Hecate hates that!
Heh. I loved to read King when I was 10, 11, 12 years old. Whenever I try to go back and re-read Pet Sematary and that stuff, I can't do it. Reminds me too much of home.
Count Buttinski - Mar 16, 2004 10:44:32 am PST #1384 of 10002
Now I have to start over. Hecate hates that!
A couple of months ago I stumbled across Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" books. (ouch! such a klutz) Scanning the Net for more background on some of the obscure characters in those books, I fell into the territory of serious Wold Newton fandom. Now I seem to spend most of my work day looking at hypothetical timelines linking every fictional character under the sun ... BTW, did you know Buffy's dad, Hank Summers, is the biological brother of Jaime Summers, the Bionic Woman? No, really ... it says so right there in the "Crossover Chronology"...
Dana - Mar 16, 2004 12:20:01 pm PST #1385 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thanks, Fred.
Also, bummer.
erikaj - Mar 16, 2004 12:39:32 pm PST #1386 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought Jaime was a "Sommers", CB.