Sorry, folks, my malaise continues and I can’t manage any other kind of post than one with monster pictures. I really like monster pictures.
I stole this gem from Monster Movies and Creature Features, a Facebook group I enjoy quite a bit. As I searched for others, I saw on one of the groups or pages I followed (can’t remember which one), somebody had posted about 50 times that it was Stephen King’s birthday. He’s 70. I don’t know if the person who posted it hit the wrong button or was just really, really excited about Stephen King’s birthday, but it was on there more times than I cared to scroll through. I went on to a different monster page/group, but I thought, ooh, there’s a perfect excuse to post monsters: Stephen King’s birthday!
Only, I’m not a big fan of Stephen King. Oh, he is an excellent writer, very skilled, very talented. I have enjoyed several books and stories of his (I prefer novels to short stories, but I also like the novelettes). I gotta say, the movies, not so much. His movies were made in the bloody ’70’s and beyond. I like the older, more circumspect flicks. There are exceptions, of course. As I trolled around looking for other pictures, I remembered I shared one recently from a movie based on a Stephen King novel. Steven my husband (note the different spelling) and I pop in Carrie periodically. It is a time-honored favorite.
A movie based on a Stephen King novel which I did not enjoy was The Shining. Yes, yes, I know many people love it. One part I liked which was not in the book was “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy,” typed over and over, when Pathetic Wife thought he was working on his novel. The other part I kind of liked, also not in the book, was the very end, with the haunting shot of Jack Nicholson in the ballroom
This is the cover photo from the group Haunted Ballroom. Very appropriate, no?
As I was downloading that photo, I remembered there is another movie based on a Stephen King novel I don’t mind: Shawshank Redemption. I reference that movie all the time. As a result of spending too much time (for me) in dry, dry Arizona, I enjoy rain so much that sometimes I do Shawshank Redemption:
Full disclosure: after the flood of 2013, I did not do that gesture for a while. I don’t do it every time it rains anyways, only sometimes for effect, for example, when we had rather a deluge after a Shakespeare performance in Little Falls last summer (perhaps you read my blog post about it).
Be all that as it may, this has been my Thursday Non-Sequitur post for the week. I hope to see you all again on Lame Post Friday.