I don't know, you guys, I'm starting to think that corporations aren't the purely benevolent institutions of happiness and prosperity I had assumed they were. Perhaps another dozen science fiction stories might convince me otherwise.

*head explodes*

Sometimes they do! But usually not in ways involving magic potions.

I'm oddly discomfited by the title Fairy Tale: A True Story. Those are two contradictory things! You cannot be both those things, catchphrases be damned!

Too late, here's your Thompson gun and flak jacket. Keep an eye out for Van Owen.

They can be two things!

That's what I was wondering, too. It does sound like the player is just watching a first-person animated movie and occasionally changing the camera angle and pressing what amounts to a "continue" button, which is an interesting formal departure if nothing else. If we were being ungenerous, we could assume the…

I was hoping for more information on the owls and the veracity thereof.

Works just fine. Most of it is Roland telling a story from when he was young, and then a fairy tale inside the flashback, so you don't need to know much of anything about the Dark Tower series to begin with. But King sprinkles plenty of bits and pieces of Dark Tower lore throughout that fans of the series will pick up…

I agree, but considering that Hartman's tendency to go over time and budget on the show was a heavy factor in its cancellation, I can see whey they'd be hesitant to give it another shot.

I kind of hate this move because after seeing it, my dad and sister would incessantly quote the "listing various kinds of shrimp dishes" bit to each other as an inside joke and it was extremely annoying. It's…not a profound critique, I acknowledge.

Assimilate, Forrest, assimilate!

And?

Yes, it had better be, or else…hmm, for some reason I can't think of an appropriate facetious threat of violence here, how odd…

He's bringing us love! Get him!

My proofreading job has been so eager to send me assignments lately that I actually had to turn one down for lack of time. That's a first for me, and while I regretted having to do it, I'm very gratified that my efforts to establish myself as fast and reliable have paid off.

Hey, congrats on the new series!

I, er, would also like to express my appreciation of that, uh, particular storytelling medium.

I just finished The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King. A nifty little fairy tale tucked inside a murder mystery tucked inside a Dark Tower bottle episode. It's turducken a la King, and a lot of fun. It also temporarily assuaged my frustration that my library's collection of the Dark Tower series apparently ends…

Space blessings upon the anniversary of your expulsion from the womb!