It’s only nine seconds long, and yet … it re-instilled a sense of joy and wonder that has been absent in me since boyhood. It is a pleasure to behold, or even contemplate.
Play it. Make sure the sound is turned on. And watch the cat.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/a-cat-ran-into-a-door-during-a-french-tv-baking-show-and-it
There was a time in Stephen King’s career when he focused on familiar movie monsters (vampires, werewolves, blobs and boogeymen), instead of more abstract horrors. “Cycle of the Werewolf” is an example of that, and it’s great fun — perfect for a late night horror fix that appeals to the kid at heart. If you’re a fan of King’s work in books like “Salem’s Lot” or “Night Shift,” you ought to enjoy this.
It IS more of a long story than a novel or a novella — it’s brief. The illustrations by Berni (Bernie?) Wrightson, of comic book fame, are perfect.
I thought it would be fun to read this and then revisit its 1985 film adaptation, “Silver Bullet,” which I remember loving as a kid. Gonna have to hunt that one down.
I m going to be up all night thinking about this video.
See the link:
I have been enlisted by my friend Maryanne to find a cool and original name for her new puppy — something with Gaelic, Latin or folklore origins.
I blanked out, but my writer friends came through with flying colors.
Finder-Of-Good-Things Wednesday Lee Friday passed along to me this website, which she said was indispensable for writers. And, MAN is it cool! Check it out:
Thanks, Wednesday!
A friend of mine sent me a note saying she’d be busy today because her children had a “day full of recitals.”
I at first read “a day full of rectals,” and concluded she was being entirely overscrupulous where her children’s health is concerned.
I NEED READING GLASSES.
“At last, as the gray November afternoon tightens down toward an early anvil-colored dusk, he bounds into the kitchen, snatches the Volare’s keys from the peg by the door, and almost runs toward the car. He drives toward Portland fast, smiling, and he does not slow when the season’s first snow skirls into the beams of his headlights, dancers from the iron sky.”
— from Stephen King’s “Cycle of the Werewolf”
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
“Often when I want to work but have nothing specific in mind, I’ll start with a familiar object, begin to draw it, and see what emerges. I just drew a banana that became a boat (maybe you saw?). It strikes me as a good diversion to start making a children’s story. I don’t know the first thing about children, so my story is going to be the one I wanted to see and hear as a child but never did.”
— From “The Golden Mean,” by Nick Bantock
From The Random House Group, via Facebook.
So I’m quoting classic 80’s comic books to friends yesterday, because that is precisely what a healthy, well rounded 41-year-old does.
I googled a page-shot for Bruce Wayne’s iconic “Yes, Father,” pledge, and it FINALLY occurred to me that Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One” contains a parallel to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
The bat flies through the window and perches on Thomas Wayne’s bust; the raven flies through the window to perch on the “pallid bust of Pallas.”
If memory serves, I first read “Year One” in 1992. And I just got that.
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