the words and worlds of John Robinson
I always thought it would be cool to have a twin. My father was a twin, and I have twin cousins. If I had a twin, I'd like to think I would be the good twin, but who am I kidding. Since it's just me, I have to pull double duty. When I'm good, I'm …
I don't know if I read it or heard it said, but Wes Craven was once described as a good director who had made some bad movies. It doesn't matter who the artist is, there's gonna be some fouls, fumbles and strike-outs along the way. Shakespeare didn't exactly have a spotless record-- who remembers Troilus …
The first novel of modern mainstream adult fiction I ever read was Stephen King's Cujo. I was eleven years old and my mother bought it for me on the last day of the fifth grade. It was a paperback and the cover was red. Everything before Cujo was comic books, Poe, Irving, Mary Shelley, Robert …
If it's been a long work week, or just a particularly stressful day, you may feel like getting away from it all. There are myriad ways to relax (legally, my friends, hopefully): some people head to a bar and start a tab to take the edge off, some opt for a glass of wine in …
I knew I wanted to write in July of 1987. I didn’t know it consciously at the time-- it took a while for me to really catch on to what my brain was doing. I was ten-years-old and I was at the Capri Twin Theater to see RoboCop. It was probably too intense and graphically …
Growing up, I thought Clint Eastwood made four types of movies: westerns, war films, Dirty Harry ones, and the two with the orangutan. Those were his only movies I was aware of because those were the only ones I'd seen on television. As I became older, I discovered Eastwood's work beyond The Outlaw Josey Wales …
“Who wants a library full of books you've already read?”-- Harlan Ellison, Angry Candy Not so long ago, I bought a new bookcase. We needed one-- between my son and I (mainly me) our books were overflowing the available shelf space. I bought a nine-cube thing that more than suited our needs. With it, and …
As someone who worked the graveyard shift for nearly twenty years, I know what it's like at two in the morning when your body is screaming that you should be in bed asleep and not trying to earn your dollar for the day. I also know what it's like in those wee hours when you …
In early 1944, the Nazis know the Allies are planning a massive invasion of the continent. They don't know where, or when, the strike will take place, though. All they can do is initiate their counter-measures to thwart whatever their enemies have in mind. The Allies do not know what the Nazi have planned, but …
There are very few sequels which equal or surpass their original film. For every Silence of the Lambs there is a Caddyshack II. For every Exorcist III or Terminator 2: Judgment Day, there is a Jason Goes To Hell or a Jaws: The Revenge. Most sequels are more of the same, and that seems to …
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