Lame-O-Ween
It is now official, that I need to do something cool for Halloween next year. Seriously.
My Halloween consisted of me working late, buying a 2 liter of diet coke at the corner store, noting that I had forgotten to put up any of my halloween decorations, and then falling asleep in my chair around 9:30 PM. It was one of those weeks (and having a really nasty cold didn't help).
I did get to see some drunken college kids on the T Saturday night (apparently that's when all the Boston Halloween parties went down), including the "Other Super Friends", a lesser known crime fighting team consisting of (Christian Bale/Dark Knight) Batman, Eminem, and (circa 1989) Flavor Flav.
I also finished reading Stephen King's "Danse Macabre", which was not so much about writing as it was about Steve-o's view on horror novels and movies. I was hoping for more insight on horror psychology and less of a history lesson, but he does make some good points, tells some great Harlan Ellison stories, and reminded me that I am really behind on Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber. Like, 30+ years. I read a lot (and I mean, a lot) of classic sci fi and horror novels growing up, completely tapped out the Science Fiction and Horror short story compilation directories of three different libraries, and developed the impression that I had made my way through the "classic" stuff and well into the crap strata, but somehow I missed most of Stephen King's personal favorites on the way down. I definitely need to work on that.
My Halloween consisted of me working late, buying a 2 liter of diet coke at the corner store, noting that I had forgotten to put up any of my halloween decorations, and then falling asleep in my chair around 9:30 PM. It was one of those weeks (and having a really nasty cold didn't help).
I did get to see some drunken college kids on the T Saturday night (apparently that's when all the Boston Halloween parties went down), including the "Other Super Friends", a lesser known crime fighting team consisting of (Christian Bale/Dark Knight) Batman, Eminem, and (circa 1989) Flavor Flav.
I also finished reading Stephen King's "Danse Macabre", which was not so much about writing as it was about Steve-o's view on horror novels and movies. I was hoping for more insight on horror psychology and less of a history lesson, but he does make some good points, tells some great Harlan Ellison stories, and reminded me that I am really behind on Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber. Like, 30+ years. I read a lot (and I mean, a lot) of classic sci fi and horror novels growing up, completely tapped out the Science Fiction and Horror short story compilation directories of three different libraries, and developed the impression that I had made my way through the "classic" stuff and well into the crap strata, but somehow I missed most of Stephen King's personal favorites on the way down. I definitely need to work on that.