Like in the same room, maybe playing a violin? That does sound kinda do-able.

I'd kind a hope that someone named Dixie Mellonworth was a little boobier than what we're gonna get,

Eh, after Guardians of the galaxy got greenlighted, it's clear that someone's precocious 14-year-old ADD nephew has been running the show (I'd look up to see if they were the same studio, but that's like work). Time to dust off your Hookers in Alternate History Where Marc Anthony Won at Actium Fighting Evil Proconsul…

I think he was Newt's dad in the extended cut of Aliens.

Wallace Shawn!

Yeah, though The Stand also combined all that with body removal, which became part of Harold's moral collapse. But yes; King actually put some thought into what might happen in a "back on" scenario, and made it interesting to read/watch.

Hopefully in the future, when people with some pull in the business thinks "What if future society was forced to ape the superficial tropes of a poorly-researched version of a specific past society? Wouldn't that be cool?" someone would swat them with a rolled-up newspaper. It's cheese all the way through, runs out of…

Nah; they all went across the river to happy land where the scary TV people are kept at bay. Well, not at night, but that's why doors have locks.

They're the vanguard of the alien puppet masters who will kill all the adults and force the children to live in alien-headed families.

Lykke Li? Not likely.

Yeah, we always had vice principals. They were usually the rules enforcers, while the actual principals did administration stuff.

Sure. A story about a struggling golden gloves boxer and a ventriloquist falling in love with and fighting over a magicians assistant at Christmastime in generic small-town America could be good, but Jesus, why start two strikes behind? Sometimes it seems they pick a terrible premise on purpose as a kind of big-dick…

I dunno. To throw my whole life away, needs to be a bit boobier. I mean, she's certainly easy on the eyes, but we're talking end of the world stuff here!

How about the evil Shi-ar (or however you spell that) with the wings? Like Deathwing or Deathbird or some utterly idiotic thing. She was evil. And in space!

If they have all the actors, they have all the acting. And acting is good. Therefore, this will be the best movie ever.

That entire sequence, ending with him waking up the next day, is the greatest thing ever.

I read that as "controversial" and was curious how that could possibly apply to either one of these guys. Turns out I was wrong as well as being right.

Tylenol PM.

Huh. I didn't much like end much at all (though honestly I really only liked Act I), and since Sharp Objects was the most recent novel I've finished (whose ending I thought was even weaker), I guess that was on my mind. I loved her voice for her characters - the plots (and psychology), not so much. Your mileage may…

I still think that is he had a writing partner he trusted enough (and was good) to do the plot and especially the ending, while King could do characterization and context, it could be some of the greatest stuff ever. Weirdly, I find him similar to Gillian Flynn, with evocative characters and page-turning details…