tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post3871295967226096870..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: The Drug Report: "Morality" Pillsmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-58436366345525384752016-02-05T12:22:22.015-08:002016-02-05T12:22:22.015-08:00I consider Danse Macabre my favorite King book as ...I consider Danse Macabre my favorite King book as well. I keep coming back to it. It has really affected my horror reading and watching over the past 35 years. It has also affected my teaching. I first went to the Lovecraft sections as well, and I also enjoyed Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature_.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-5464267065450613892016-02-03T14:43:23.712-08:002016-02-03T14:43:23.712-08:00@Tony: Interesting. When I read Pendell's line...@Tony: Interesting. When I read Pendell's lines I glossed them as football FANS, and not the players, maybe because my subliminal reading apparatus-werkes are programmed to regard the idea that the PLAYERS doing E and getting less violent is an absurd idea. I don't even follow what we call "soccer" but I guess I never even considered the possibility that Pendell meant the players. Players in the major team sports in Unistat/Canada get drug tested too, but it's an arms race of sorts, as you no doubt know. <br /><br />@Eric: Danse Macabre is my favorite book by Stephen King. I picked it up because I wanted to see what he had to say about HPL and his influences and acolytes. Pretty interesting. I remember following that with HPL's _Supernatural Horror In Literature_, which I think a marvel in itself. I even bought the Dover edition...because those are cheap.<br /><br />Seriously, or jocoseriously: I think I was always weird. Poetry helped liberate me in this way. It's okay to be weird; we poets are weird too, dontcha know? Also, poetry HAD to have helped me articulate a lot of my weirdness in more fine-grained detail.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-57377615877202100022016-02-03T12:25:21.178-08:002016-02-03T12:25:21.178-08:00Great piece, as usual. I don't know if poetry ...Great piece, as usual. I don't know if poetry made me weird or if my weirdness led me to poetry.<br /><br />Speaking of Shirley Jackson, have you read Stephen King's nonfiction book Danse Macabre? That book really influenced me.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-34770656288321852592016-02-03T06:47:38.915-08:002016-02-03T06:47:38.915-08:00Fully agree with the drift of this BUT "When ...Fully agree with the drift of this BUT "When footballers in England began taking ecstasy, violence plummeted. Everywhere it has gone ecstasy has been a catalyst for peace" . Erm nope. Football players are regularly drugs tested. Its the FANS of such teams who took E, met each other in techno clubs, and then cut out the tribal violence that used to occur between fans of rival teams (often due to drinking vast amounts of alcohol, a depressant commonly linked to aggression and violence). tony smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771763749137149585noreply@blogger.com