Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - It's spring!

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Hi Victor!

Hi Gloria! How is your weather there?

Its cold and windy. I went to the store and a guy was trying to get his shopping cart to stay still in the parking lot. Every time he went to get in his truck, there was the cart - right behind him.

He said, It wants to come home with me!

Maybe the other carts don't treat it well.

Sometimes shopping carts come to life in the wind. Last time I went to Books a Million the wind blew a shopping cart against my car door. I was parked beside a curb, couldn't for the life of me get the cart to move so I could get out of the car. Had to climb over to the passenger's side. The cart had a venomous look.

they have a life we have never considered.

What was the name of that Stephen King movie about a car that came to life? Christine??

Yes. It was 'Christine'. Good book.
The one that REALLY got me shivering though, was 'Cujo'. Of course, I read it at night, and I had a large black lab at the time.

Awwwww, geeeeeesh. Cujo scared the daylights out of me...it was so awful.

My personal favorite Stephen King novel, though, will always be 'The Stand'. It was also the first of his that I ever read.

I still like Pet Sematary, I also noticed he slowed down quite a bit after the car accident. ☺

Oh yeah. He sure did.
And, his style is so different since he stopped taking drugs.

I never got into his writing.

I started reading "Salem's Lot" and could barely get past page 40. I put it down and promised myself I will never read another Stephen King book again. He's brilliant, I know, but I just can't deal with being that scared!

He's one strange looking dude too.

Yup, he's made for the job!

He does look like his stories. My favorite was Misery.

I never knew he took drugs, but then so did Edgar Allan Poe. (not that it's a good thing by any means). ☺

What did Poe take? When asked if still taking (whatever), he replied, 'Nevermore'.

Our classic writers, it seems, write better with the drugs. 'Alice in Wonderland' comes to mind.

Some of my best posts on DG...

Wow Victor, I never knew...

Neither did I!

Cocaine and that funny green stuff Lautrec and Van Gogh used to take, it has some type of numbing effect similar to morphine, I forgot what it's called, it starts with an A... (It's not unusual... it was accepted at the time, Sigmund Freud was also heavy on the cocaine and used it on his patients). ☺

I just KNEW that Lewis Carroll was a friend of Victor's!

So Toulouse was too tight?

apparently... he wanted to get looser... lol! ☺

Lots of opium users. Very often a new drug was seen as a great cure all. opium, cocaine, valium, prozac. then people realize they have side effects and limits. But I don't think Alice in Wonderland gets written without drugs.

I couldn't read it without them.

I agree Mr. 47.
Then, neither would Fleetwood Mac have had such a hit song.

Go ask Alice was one of my favorite songs.

Wasn't that Jeff Airplane?

Jefferson Airplane! You'll start rumors!

Victor beat me to it.

Rumours was Fleetwood. Who's on first??

That was my joke. Who is my generation.

But you left out the British 'u'.

U-2?
they're Irish.

Even Sonny Bono, the lead singer??