you really don't know how close you are with the LOTR comparison

god, i really wish that wasn't as true as it was in the later books

close - it's a monorail!

The Dark Tower - an ex-English teacher spends thousands of words getting teenagers to care about a 19th century French poem

if I was still Hold Steady Lyric Bot, I'd throw up a 'They faked their way through Fairytale of New York/when the band finished we howled out for more'

I haven't seen any of these movies except The Dirty Dozen, but after this article I want to watch them all

Garth Ennis' Hellblazer and Hitman comics are already Pogues musicals, they've got characters singing Pogues songs in every volume

I'm so down for this… The Pogues own 3 holidays (Christmas, St Patrick's Day, and Anzac Day) and are great live… was getting drunk listening to Dark Streets of London lately

Howard actually became LESS racist because his dear friend Lovecraft's over the top racism made him reconsider his own attitudes

it's about the racist paranoia of a pulp writer, much like the song I am named after

The Mandarin in Iron Man tried

Australians still do blackface on TV, and when people complain they say that it's the Americans who are 'too easily offended'. Australia also still sells those racist 'golliwog' dolls

i remember watching The Simpsons Movie on TV & they kept showing ads for Under the Dome… way to make it impossible to take the show seriously!

if they call him Flagg they can have him do the Nick Fury thing & recruit other Stephen King monsters into a shared cinematic universe, which he does in the books anyway

King's taken to straight up listing all his characters who predicted Trump at speeches at anti-Trump marches

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UPON HIS SHELL HE HOLDS THE EARTH

there are fewer magical black men in the Dark Tower than in other SK books. women, on the other hand…

i've been a Dark Tower fan since I was a kid. physical features aside, Roland needs to be a soulful badass gunslinger. that's Idris Elba. done

Flagg hops between Stephen King books so casually he might not be sure where he is