"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners…"

"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners…"

I was hoping someone would mention X-Files novelizations!  I had Eve and Bad Sign, which was based on the episode Syzygy.  I re-read them both countless times.  Eve was the book that taught me about digitalis and exsanguination.  When I was taken back to Waldenbooks to get more, the series was gone, never to be…

I was hoping someone would mention X-Files novelizations!  I had Eve and Bad Sign, which was based on the episode Syzygy.  I re-read them both countless times.  Eve was the book that taught me about digitalis and exsanguination.  When I was taken back to Waldenbooks to get more, the series was gone, never to be…

Dead Zone was the first King I ever read, probably age 9 or 10.  My mom figured she'd start me off with what she considered his least horrific work.  For the most part, she was correct, though the deputy's suicide messed me up for a bit.  And made me insatiably ravenous for anything else that approached the feeling I…

Dead Zone was the first King I ever read, probably age 9 or 10.  My mom figured she'd start me off with what she considered his least horrific work.  For the most part, she was correct, though the deputy's suicide messed me up for a bit.  And made me insatiably ravenous for anything else that approached the feeling I…

I shower with the bathroom door open when I'm alone in the apartment, and every weird noise makes me pop my head out of the curtain to make sure there isn't someone there.  Like being aware of the situation will change the fact that I am both naked and defenseless. 

I shower with the bathroom door open when I'm alone in the apartment, and every weird noise makes me pop my head out of the curtain to make sure there isn't someone there.  Like being aware of the situation will change the fact that I am both naked and defenseless. 

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street; I had to read that in middle school as well.  My teacher paired it with 12 Angry Men, assigned parts and had us read both aloud.  As a Goosebumps / Stephen King fan, Monsters didn't scare me so much as entertain me greatly.  12 Angry Men, not so much.  I think I was a little young…

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street; I had to read that in middle school as well.  My teacher paired it with 12 Angry Men, assigned parts and had us read both aloud.  As a Goosebumps / Stephen King fan, Monsters didn't scare me so much as entertain me greatly.  12 Angry Men, not so much.  I think I was a little young…

Unless the splooge-thrower was incredibly ill, it was most definitely shit. 

Unless the splooge-thrower was incredibly ill, it was most definitely shit. 

Liked for cream cheese frosting addiction.

Liked for cream cheese frosting addiction.

@avclub-577bf73a564d1fd9878f3c70f931a066:disqus I first heard "cock-gobbling thunder-cunt" used in Blade: Trinity to describe Parker Posey's character.  Not sure if that phrase was in use before the movie.

@avclub-577bf73a564d1fd9878f3c70f931a066:disqus I first heard "cock-gobbling thunder-cunt" used in Blade: Trinity to describe Parker Posey's character.  Not sure if that phrase was in use before the movie.

I definitely agree that V. is a better gateway to Pynchon than Gravity's Rainbow.  And if you want something shorter to gauge your interest, there's always Crying of Lot 49.

I definitely agree that V. is a better gateway to Pynchon than Gravity's Rainbow.  And if you want something shorter to gauge your interest, there's always Crying of Lot 49.

I watched the '09 BBC Hamlet with David Tennant just the other day.  Enjoyed it loads more than I had expected to; probably one of the better screen adaptations of Shakespeare I've seen.  For the fangirl completist and the seventeenth-century drama aficionado, both!

I watched the '09 BBC Hamlet with David Tennant just the other day.  Enjoyed it loads more than I had expected to; probably one of the better screen adaptations of Shakespeare I've seen.  For the fangirl completist and the seventeenth-century drama aficionado, both!