Me and my crazy ideas . . . OK, so, after reading Stephen King's The Long Walk, I thought it'd be a neat idea to recreate some of the story for my podcast by taking . . . a long walk. Now, to be fair, I didn't have anyone following me around in a Jeep,... Continue Reading →
In glimmers, in shreds of thought, in the aftermath of my reading, I wondered if he kept a journal still, or if the dolphin's eye had been familiar for a reason other than that it was so human. But soon enough I banished this nonsense; some questions will ruin you if you are denied the... Continue Reading →
A whopping thirty-six years after first releasing The Shining (from 1977 to 2013), Stephen King finally gets around to giving us a sequel, Doctor Sleep. That almost makes the wait for Winds of Winter reasonable! Of course, The Shining was in no need of a sequel. There were no loose plot threads to tie up nor... Continue Reading →
As a personal social experiment, I lived for a month like it was 1985. Now I'm back with some insights and observations. First and foremost, it's not easy pretending it's four decades earlier when nobody else is playing along. The Internet has become mandatory for making restaurant reservations, planning trips, or buying insurance. Going without GPS,... Continue Reading →
Pet Sematary is unquestionably Stephen King's darkest novel. In the introduction to my copy, he admits he wasn't sure he wanted to put this one out there. While there are plenty of supernatural aspects to the novel, particularly in the later segments, Sematary stands apart from King's other works by delving into real-life tragedy and... Continue Reading →
The Art of Storytelling 
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