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"If you think the air stinks, you should smell our governor's dick!" Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The Cougs could sign the 15 top recruits in the nation and I wouldn't call them "good." Of course my Dawgs are having a rather bad year themselves. I've been looking forward to this weekend's Apple Cup, and only this weekend's Apple Cup, since we lost to Air Force in the first weekend of the season. We suck this year, but hopefully not as much as WSU. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The same Ducks that just barely squeaked out of Pullman last weekend? What straight man wouldn't prefer to root for Beavers? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I prefer to think of it as the biggest "could-have-been-great" movie of all time. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

i don't. i think he started off with something great and then threw a whole bunch of shit in there.... kind of like the matrix movies. To each their own. I mostly agree on the Matrix movies...there was sooo much more potential to explore. That said, I did just buy the Matrix box-set two days ago. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Bandit balloon jump (saw it flying, chased it down, begged). The quiet is unnerving. Glider. Again, for the quiet, and the coolness of standing out there in the wind. Helicoptors are pretty fun, but unless there's an e-ticket ride involved the novelty kinda wears off. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Marten Broadcloak is Walter O'Dim is Randall Flagg (who just happened to be good at being "dim" in The Stand). He is also referred to as "Legion" in The Stand and identifies himself as "Legion" in The Gunslinger. Common names between The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon include "Flagg" and "the Dark Man". It became perfectly obvious in The Drawing of the Three, but the seed was already set in the first book of the series with the Legion alias. Blues, Dave Well wasn't one of the points that King made in the final book of the dark tower series that almost all his books were about the dark tower... ie big hairy spider monster from IT. Not to mention the Turtle in IT... Yeah, you're right, I was just trying to show that the interconnectedness of it all started much sooner than the last book in the series. Given that SK started the Dark Tower in like 1973 or so, it stands to reason that ideas would pop up in his other novels. There were occasional glitches, but overall I love the way he did it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Marten Broadcloak is Walter O'Dim is Randall Flagg (who just happened to be good at being "dim" in The Stand). He is also referred to as "Legion" in The Stand and identifies himself as "Legion" in The Gunslinger. Common names between The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon include "Flagg" and "the Dark Man". It became perfectly obvious in The Drawing of the Three, but the seed was already set in the first book of the series with the Legion alias. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think he tied it in after the fact in later Dark Tower books. In The Stand, while the travelers are crossing the desert, you'll find the line "like a man named Roland walks through another desert far away". Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Fill me in then... what non-Dark Tower books did either of those characters tie into? Black man equals Randall Flagg of The Stand (amonst other references...he's Stephen King's ultimate bad guy regardless of the name he goes by). The gunslinger is Roland...he appeared in Eyes of the Dragon, Black House, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis at a minimum, was mentioned in The Stand, and seems awfully related to Jack Sawyer of the Talisman. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The pinnacle of fluff! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

that's the part I didn't like. The series didn't start off that way..... . Huh? The series started out, "The black man fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed". You don't think either of those characters tie into other books? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Best: Little drummer boy Worst: Too many to list Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Who survived to tell the story? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Forget ice cream, invent a new flavor of soda pop! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I liked Wolves of the Calla, but it seemed like "filler". I really liked it when he starting incorporating more and more references to his other works...it was like a reward for those of us who've read everything. I think the circular reference you're talking about is the very end, right? I liked the way it suggested that we haven't read the last of King. I'm hoping he takes a year or two off to develop some interesting new stuff (we've had enough haunted cars) and then sits back down and writes something to scare the hell out of us. He's had his time to play, with online publication, the Green Mile, and Kingdom Hospital...now it's time for another page-turning horror story. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I loved The Eye of the Dragon. It and the Talisman were offshoots of the Dark Tower story brewing in King's mind, weren't they? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I throw Rose Madder, Gerald's Game, and Misery into the same lot. Not my cup of tea. The Stand, IT, Needful Things, the Dark Half, Pet Semetary, The Dark Tower (contains references to all things King, including those books written as Bachman), The Dead Zone, and all the shorter stories too, those are my thing. I also like the Peter Straub collaborations...Black House, The Talisman. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Ack! And mine too! I felt that! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't know what the SK Library is, but I have almost every first edition hardback.

:2:0 Only made two jumps last week, one Thursday and one Saturday. Both were on the news cuz I live in a boring little town. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Stop following me around and teasing me. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Congrats Sean. You'll be amazed how much your students will teach you. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

It's not my fault the proponents are keeping quiet while the detractors publicly complain! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

But it's a happy picture, smile and all! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)