She didn't say that "men can't take no". She said that "men can't be trusted to take no". Which means that even if 99% of men could take no, women never know when they're dealing with one of the other 1%.

I loved how on the circa-2012 "Beavis and Butt-Head" revival (which was even more slyly political than the original run), Beavis was constantly grousing about the government misspending his tax dollars. I believe the message was that most people who complain about "my tax dollars" are probably about as ignorant as…

Yeah, exactly. I was once acquainted with a lunatic Bernie Bro who believed that his opinions about television programs and such were facts, and that if you liked TV Show A more than TV Show B when he had determined that B was the superior show, you were factually wrong *in exactly the same way and exactly to the same…

Possibly if "this community" is a herd of cows…

The other day, I reconnected with an ex via social media. We were having a nice chat, and I made a reference to a slightly-innuendo-ridden old inside joke we'd had. On my end, it was more in the spirit of, "Remember this thing that was funny?" than, "Remember the sex?", but she responded all, "…you know, I'm married…

Okay, first of all: I'm constantly politely asking people to explain where they're coming from and then bending over backwards explaining that I'm not trolling them, lest my polite question somehow seem rude. I've never seen anyone else do that before. You and I should be friends.

I'll be damned. I went back and skimmed through the first half of the book, and you're right: no references to Mike being black until very late in the game. I'd never noticed that before. Thank you, Nerdherder!

When you're doing clowning, do you sometimes feel that you have no business being a clown, and that you should leave the clowning business to all the other clowns in the clowning business?

That's what I like about Doctor Sleep, though. For twenty years, King's been going to the "omnipotent evil entity randomly harasses some people, then decides to go away because of something about the Dark Tower or something" way too much. I liked that he finally had some villains who were ineffectual.

It was from the 1990 version, yes.

No, I want roast beef, you CLOD!

Using the word "cinematic" pretty loosely.

Hill has a twee streak that annoys me (I keep trying to read The Fireman and putting it down every time something's too cutesy-poo), but goddamn, when he's on, he's on. The short story within the short story in "Best New Horror" is one of the top-five scariest things I've ever read. If Hill wanted to be a full-stop…

Nobody does.

When I was a 12-year-old who had never even seen a drunk person, Jim Gardner seemed badass. Now as a thirtysomething recovering alcoholic, I wonder if he'll still seem that way or if he'll just seem like a stock drunk.

I like The Tommyknockers more than most people. And by that, I mean, I like The Tommyknockers more than most people do. But by that, I also mean, I like The Tommyknockers more than I like most people.

I'd argue that Pet Sematary is his best ending by a huge margin. I can't think of any other time he's come close.

Well, who wants a horror film to be scary, right?

Louis is one of the most effective characters King has ever written, because while he has some shading, he kind of falls into King's generic-protagonist-everyman zone…but in context, that just makes it that much scarier, because *this could be anybody*.

Further to my earlier comment about how I've gotten older but Louis Creed has stayed the same age, you know what part of Pet Sematary was terrifying for me as a kid? His idea of just running off to Disneyworld with Reanimated Gage. I remember being upset that he would abandon his (alive) daughter that easily. I don't…