McGavin was also The Outsider, a very good PI show that deserves to be collected somewhere

Is he still doing that Canadian punk rock movie?

Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I disliked it from the first book and still kept on, over the years, until I read the last few in a self-loathing blitz. As just reward for putting myself through this, the ending/payoff is so bad, such a cheat, i actually threw the book across the room.
Fuck

Hey Hooded Justice - if you wouldn't mind, mail me at buck.modernettes@gmail.com. Great fan of your posts

Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan is very good. Between that and the collected letters, pretty much all you need outside the actual WSB writing. I have a great fondness for The Cat inside and My Education, two late, slim volumes worth looking for

"ABC is not the problem with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and to suggest that is incredibly asinine. It's Marvel's direction with what they want to do with the series."

funny - that's how I read Valis the first time, stuck in my apartment alone with a brutal flu and hallucinatory fever. As good as strong drugs, really