Microblog Memes

I used to be far more productive when I was on drugs. The only reason I quit is because of the police harassing me. Now I'm just a shell being addicted to online media. I'm currently waiting until I can get my drivers license back which was taken. Not because I was driving under the influence, but because they simply found some stuff in my saliva. They really want to make the world safe of drugs so now I'm depressed at home trying to pay off my debt to the government because they want to keep me safe? Well it doesn't make sense but if me being punished and repeatedly being kicked to the ground is the correct way of making the world safe I will do that! Instead of being a happy guy, driving safe on the road and doing some drugs at parties sometimes, I will embrace the nights of insomnia the government forces upon me. At least I can't drink all of the problems they caused me away, as the only money I have is now considered theirs. What a great society to live in.

So is there a reasonable chance Erdos had ADHD?

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a great book

Maximum Overdrive is crazy fun schlock. It's not even a guilty pleasure for me; I simply unironically and full-throatedly love it.

Not all movies need to be Citizen Kane. Sometimes a coke-fueled, overly acted B-movie is exactly what the soul needs.

Carrie: The Musical was also around that time. It was one of the biggest flops in Broadway history. I would not be at all shocked if cocaine played a big role in Stephen King okaying a musical based on Carrie.

Granted I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I remember Maximum Overdrive as a cheesy fun B movie.

I smoked weed for thirty years and it made me a much better programmer. That app is going to be done any day now.

Edit: I haven't checked lately, but Visual Basic 3 is still what everybody's using, right?

RC Cola is the secret.

Cherry Pepsi for novels, regular Pepsi for theater.

It's literally called On Writing IIRC.

If I remember correctly, he does talk about his drug use in that book. He even talks about drinking mouthwash at one point because he was that much of an alcoholic.

I haven't read the book, but I know he's a very dedicated and hard-working writer. I just thought the meme was funny.

Writing is like exercising your muscles. You usually have to do it regularly in order to have the ability to do something like write a novel. My mom writes novels and when she isn't, she writes short stories. She doesn't even send them to be published, they're just practice for when she writes novels.

Of course, in Stephen King's case, if has a collection of his grocery lists, someone would publish it.

Sometimes. Ever read the story the movie Lawnmower Man wasn't actually based on even though it says it was?

There was definitely such a thing as Stephen King doing too much cocaine.

Philip K Dick too. On drugs, whimsical, thought provoking, melancholy. Dick when sober? Unfathomably terrifying existential dread.

Do we have a timeline for that? I need to know if he was high while writing the Dark Tower novels.

I'm gonna have to rethink my strategy...

Or was he just interrupted by Dirk Gently before something horrible happened?

Wikipedia agrees with you:

King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goes on to say he likes the book and wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them on the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo