One of my best friends, who I have known for over 27 years, ed away recently. There is no good way to start things like this, just like there is no good way or time to ever receive such news. I am finding it equally impossible to process and put into words everything I am feeling and the profound pain this loss has inflicted on me. I’m not even sure it’s possible.
I haven’t seen Kevin in years, and yet…
We’ve reached a point where when I hear about a new adaptation of a Stephen King work for the big (or small) screen I no longer find myself excited or full to bursting with anticipation. Instead, I have to stifle a groan and actively stop myself from guesstimating how badly it will be butchered or how scaled-down and mutilated the final product will be. You’d think that with hundreds of tales to choose from, between his novels and countless short…
Folk tales and fables, legends and myths, are all my bread and butter. I eat that kind of stuff up like I need it to live, but every once and a while a really solid entry slips right through my fingers. I buying the book this movie is based on when it first came out and giving it to one of my brothers as a birthday gift, without so much as a second thought or a selfishly precursory read…
Long book + Long movie= Very long review/analysis
The first time I read Stephen King's gargantuan tire block of a book IT I was probably much to young to fully understand or enjoy most of what I was reading. I was 9 or 10 years old, only a little younger then the protagonists of the story, and I was determined to read a horror novel with more to offer then the whimsical terrors of Goosebumps and Fear Street. I don't…
