They did, in fact, make his middle name William. 

Don’t be absurd. Who ever heard of two Williams within an extended family?!

In 2007, I named my son William. Later that year, his cousin was born and my sister in law named him Hayden. All was well.

“Hey look! An award statuette!”

I’m going to BAILIFF you make one more courtroom pun!

MEL BROOKS IS JEWISH?!

Imagine having the volume of output and level of impact on a culture that a column like this could be written about your work. There really are very few people with King’s level of cultural influence on popular media.

take my fucking money

Agreed, with an honourable mention to Into the Spiderverse. It’s less canonical but what an incredible visual odyssey.

This is rad. Cool art and cool perspective. 

You’re right, believe it or not I kind of forgot about that one and Hannibal Rising... but Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs were both good. Not incredible, not high literature, but above average thrillers. 

In my opinion the books are good, above average thrillers, but you’re right, it’s surprising they birthed such an extensive franchise. I would say we have Sir Anthony Hopkins to thank (blame?) for that.

This piece has been up for 20 minutes and nobody has yet pointed out some way in which Lennon was a shitty person. It’s a record!

No Dune? I thought that was a great trailer.

I’m such a softie, I can’t even read about people crying over kids books without getting a lump in my throat.

I will definitely watch this. I find it fascinating to see films made in China that show us the actual day-to-day of normal people’s lives. Not only is their society insular but ours often views it as monolithic. It’s good to see Chinese heroes and everyday people’s struggles. Not to mention what a fascinating, and…

How is this OK with health and safety regulations? Zoning? You wouldn’t get me within 50 feet of the damn thing. 

This:

Isn’t Questlove one of the main voices in this?