I actually haven’t read Frank Miller’s classic “Born Again” storyline for Daredevil. But I think I need to.
This was passed along to me by blog correspondent Pete Harrison.
David Mazzucchelli’s artwork is outstanding.
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Blog correspondent Pete Harrison on the news about Daraprim.
From our own Pete Harrison: “As a guy who has to take pills every day for the rest of his life just to stay alive, allow me to weigh in on the Daraprim controversy.
“If I was rich and controlled that drug, I agree, I would say the $13.50 per pill thing is ridiculous.
“Then I’d drop the price to $1.00 per pill. With the first six months of prescriptions free of charge for anyone, insured or not.
“Not because I’m a really great guy.
“Because I’m a human being with a soul.
“We’re all going to be DEAD someday. And you can’t take the fucking money with you.
“But you can go to your eternal rest knowing you helped people.
“That’s worth more than a billion dollars, man.
“Thanks for reading this.
“Peace.
“Up, over, and OUT.”
Literally a sweet deal!
I bought TWO GIANT boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch at Walmart yesterday for just $5!! Nailed it!! I swing deals like Donald Trump!!
And hey!! I would probably make a better fucking president!!!
So … y’k’now. I hereby announce my candidacy for the Office of the President of the United States.
[Thanks to Campaign Manager Pete Harrison for the slogan and poster below. Share these with your friends and neighbors!]
Oh! Just one more Thing tonight!!
You’re glad I reminded you, aren’t you?
I told Pete Harrison the other night that I watched the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece, “The Thing.”
He simply responded, “Why?”
To me and undoubtedly many others, the 80’s classic will always be the paradigmatic horror – science fiction movie. Because I admire a well made house as much as anyone, but AIN’T NO CARPENTER LIKE JOHN CARPENTER. (Nobody repeat that, I want to copyright it and sell bumper stickers at horror conventions.)
Yes, the recent prequel inexplicably has the exact same title as the 1982 movie, and I have no frikkin’ idea why. That just seems … deliberately stupid. Nor is that the 2011 film’s only flaw … it’s universally maligned.
Does the 2011 outing really deserve all its bad press? I say no. Among other things, it delivered some fine goopity-gloppity monster goodness, delivered by an archetypal flying saucer, no less. That’s something that I find refreshing in a horror movie marketplace that just seems inundated with demons and ghosts. (I loved “Insidious,” but enough already.)
C’mon, Hollywood. There are plenty of horror fans out there who grew up loving giant ants, Marine-baiting “Aliens,” werewolves, swarms of spiders troubling William Shatner, and the adversaries of Godzilla. It’s why I gave a positive review to this year’s “Jurassic World,” despite a script of the same quality as that of “Gilligan’s Island.” I want to see velociraptors chase a speeding truck. I will ALWAYS want to see velociraptors chase a speeding truck.
And … I liked the 2011 movie’s protagonist! Trying to mimic MacReady’s cunning anti-hero would have redundant! This story featured a smart, young lady scientist who turned out to be tough under pressure. That kinda worked for me.
I actually have seen 1951’s “The Thing From Another World,” but that was 30 years ago on VHS, with my “Movie Uncle,” John Muth. I have NOT read “Who Goes There?,” John W. Campbell, Jr.’s 1938 novella upon which all of these films were based. But I’m planning to. (Last time I checked, it was floating around online somewhere.)
I’m just waiting for the first big blizzard to hit next winter. Because ATMOSPHERE.
Separated at birth?
One of these men is Jack Nicholson in his iconic performance in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Shining.”
The other is my friend and fellow horror movie fan, Pete Harrison.
You can’t tell which is which, can you?
“We ourselves may be accidentally ‘haunting’ others …”
“Ghosts may not be a spiritual manifestation of ectoplasmic material, the psychic remains of a deceased human being.
“They may in fact be visual traces of beings from an alternate plane of existence from our current location in space-time, or visual traces of beings from some past or future date in the reality that we are consciously aware of, bleeding through into OUR here and now.
“Temporal slippage of a sort, kind of a leak through, totally random and accidental, and not in any way, shape or form malign or predestined.
“Accepting THIS as fact, we ourselves may be accidentally “haunting” others right at this very moment.”
— Pete Harrison
My buddy above just came up with this. I think it’s goddam impressive for 2:45 a.m.! It reminds me of the “Walk-Ins” described by Stephen King in “Bag of Bones.”
(Pete’s t-shirt denotes his status as a fellow horror movie, magazine, and comic fan.)
Okay — maybe the Julianne Moore joke has gone far enough …
I see that the photo of “me” and Julianne Moore that I blogged a couple of days ago has gotten a record number of hits, and 56 Facebook shares. I need to come clean that it was intended as just a silly hoax.
I have never met Julianne Moore; the man shown is renowned actor James Woods. It’s been a running joke among a lot of people that I look like Woods — I have been hearing it since I was 16 years old. My buddy Pete Harrison sent the picture to me as a gag.
Nor did Moore visit Washington, DC this past weekend as part of her charity efforts, as far as I am aware. The Facebook comments I made about her kissing me on the cheek and telling me I was “a special guy?” Pure fiction. Her press office contacting me the next day because she wanted to stay in touch? Also fiction. Finally, I extemporized about her hair carrying the scent of strawberries and lavender, but … somehow … I just KNOW that part is actually true.
I love it when people are kind enough to share my blog posts — I’m really sorry if anyone passed this along unaware that it was a joke! 🙂
I can’t BELIEVE I met Julianne Moore!!!
She visited Washington, DC this weekend as part of her leadership of the Red Nose Day charity telecast. She is an absolutely lovely human being in addition to being a lovely woman — and she’s warm and downright genteel with her fans. I also traded hellos with Olivia Wilde and Julianne’s husband, director Bart Freundlich.
Thanks to my great friend Pete Harrison for snapping the picture!!
[EDIT, 5/26/15: Okay — maybe this joke has gone far enough … I see this post has gotten a record number of hits, and 56 Facebook shares. I have never met Julianne Moore; the man depicted is renowned actor James Woods. It’s been a running joke among a lot of people that I look like Woods — I have been hearing it since I was 16 years old. Hence the picture of “me” and Moore. I love it when people are kind enough to share my blog posts — I’m sorry if anyone passed this along unaware that it was a joke! :-)]
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