That would be a very IRS thing to make you do.

My family's beloved cat died last week at the age of 17. He'd been in rough shape for a while, so it wasn't exactly a shock, but it still sucks.

Still haven't caught that, looking forward to it.

Gareth Evans' short alone makes it the best.

I also liked how, at its heart, it's kind of a sweet story about the loving relationship between these two weirdos.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm an unabashed Canterbury fan. That song is just horrendous though.

I'm a BS man myself, but I guess I'm a little more advanced than you.

I really liked The Conjuring when I saw it and I couldn't really figure out why. I think you put it perfectly: it's pretty good for a modern horror movie. The bar in mainstream horror is just so low right now, anything that isn't found footage or PG-13 jump scares automatically gets a cautious thumbs up in my book.

HORROR THREAD

The office where I work three days a week just hired me on full-time, at least through the spring.

Letting it ride until something embarrassing:

That was me down to a T. My study halls/free were spent hunched in a carrel reading every single Stephen King book in the library.

Yeah, that's my favorite part. Just gut-wrenching.

There's a pretty interesting story behind it. When King first signed with Doubleday, they enrolled him in a plan where his royalties would be invested and paid out in annual increments. By the early 80s, he had so much money in his trust and the publisher was basically holding it all hostage, in exchange for another…

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The Art of Fielding is one of my favorite recent books. I think it's like the perfect middlebrow novel, especially if you like baseball.

Read it again recently and I still think it's great.

I was considering getting the map book but I never got around to it. Worth picking up?

It's great, but I was pretty disappointed with the presentation of maps in the book.

Just finished Pet Sematary which, for some weird reason, I never got around to reading during my Stephen King obsessed middle school years. Creepy and melancholy, and I loved it despite the cringe-inducing sex scenes/dirty talk (but such is the nature of King, I guess). I would imagine it's a very difficult book to…