We Three Girls

My kids were watching the Christmas episode of The Powerpuff Girls.
At one point, the villain gets put onto Santa's Permanent Naugty List.
When the camera pans to the list, the following four names are there...

bill mccracken
ryan faust
adolph schickelgruber
stephen fonti

Ryan Faust is my cousin! Dang...what did HE do?!

The Dark Tower

I just finished listening to the Dark Tower series. Again. After having it on in my car for so long, it seems like my own Tower – it’s always there, I’m always pursuing it, even sorta sacrificing friends along the way (by not making calls when I can). “The story fled across the tape head, and the listener followed.” There were so many other things going on at the end, though, I felt distracted. This happened the first time around, too – I remember book 7 both dragging and sustaining itself for the sake of itself.

Like Roland, I am destined to repeat this story ad infinitum, with tiny changes on each iteration. This time, for example, I skipped over the entire middle of Wizards and Glass, the tale of Mejis, to better grok the over arcing journey of the ka-tet. Next time, I will physically read them all, which I’m certain will be a very different experience. By then, the entire comic book series will be complete, again changing the experience.

I would so love to see a movie made of this. My own vision of the tale of Mejis could work, I’m certain. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that JJ Abrams will ever get to it.