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[icarus-suraki]

Valentine is done.

Blue Öyster Cult, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

[icarus-suraki]

Red, if you please. I have no idea how this “Wizard’s Rainbow” thing works but I feel like it would be a good colour

You got it! But no takebacks if it does any weird shit.

I got dibs on the black orb, though.

I saw it first. It's mine.

[icarus-suraki]

@there-are-no-gods-here​ I love telling this story. It makes me cool-by-association, it’s coolness once removed. Okay:

So there was this teacher at my high school who was probably the coolest person I'd met to that point in my life. He taught AP English, creative writing, public speaking, and drama; he directed the theater productions where he'd do things like "We're doing As You Like It but we're doing it 1960s experimental theater style." He could actually get a bunch of teenagers to organize themselves. He was super supportive of everyone’s creative efforts. He was just a funny, smart dude and totally sanctioned the entire drama club going to the midnight showing of Rocky Horror after the Saturday night performance as long as we could get the Sunday matinée done. I had him for more than one class and he was just awesome in a lot of different ways.

But in a life before that, I'm guessing the 1980s or early 1990s, he owned a used/secondhand bookstore in Maine called Secondhand Rows. (If you ask me, I'll tell you that the used bookstore in Insomnia is based on his bookstore but I have no proof.)

Now in that day and age, in the era before the internet and when independent bookstores were more common, there were in-person events where bookstore owners could buy boxes and boxes of books on the cheap to get fresh stock. If another bookstore went out of business, here's where their stock could go and they'd recoup a little of the cost. And one of the biggest ones happened in Washington DC. Lots of wheeling and dealing, lots of books changing hands.

So my favorite teacher, before he was even a teacher, set off from Maine down to DC with his car and his trailer to stock up on...stock.

Now you know how when you take a long road trip, the going is more fun than the coming back? It happens to us all. He'd driven down to DC without much trouble, but getting back up to Maine was starting to get to him a bit. 

So here he is, driving along, tired, bored, having crossed into Maine a little while ago but not close to the end of the drive yet, when a van comes up behind him. 

And you know when you get a little silly from being on the road too long and you start playing, like, mind-games with the other drivers?

So here's this van, rolling along behind him. And my teacher starts playing those mind-games: he speeds up and he slooooooows down and he speeds up! And he slooooooooows down... The van changes lanes, he changes lanes. The van changes back, and he changes back. Speeds up, slows down, boxes them in, leaves his turn signal on for too long, speeds up and slows down... And in his rear-view mirror, my soon-to-be teacher can see the guy driving the van is getting angrier and angrier, which just makes my teacher swerve around more.

Finally, the van has had e-fucking-nough and it speeds up and around and passes on the right. And the driver has the window open to facilitate easier yelling.

And as it passes, my teacher sees that...it’s Stephen King driving this van. The van whips around and gets in front of him. Even the license plate says "KING" on it.

And just before the van blazes on down the road, from the driver's side window, out goes the hand, up goes the finger--

--and that's how my favorite teacher got flipped off by Stephen King.

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[icarus-suraki]

This is the Walkin' Dude. Look at that titty, though.

Griffin McElroy

[icarus-suraki]

HE HAS ARRIVED!!

And the song from the music box is...

[icarus-suraki]

@thehats, Aww c’mon! I’ve dressed up as Flagg for the last five or six Halloweens (among other Flaggy shenanigans to which I have been party) so I think I’m allowed a leetle slaaaaaaaander.

re: 2. Oh, okay.

[icarus-suraki]

oh my fuck the leader of the reopen-the-state protests in my state is now sick with covid-19.

if anyone needs me i’m going to be indulging in some schadenfreude