SHOCKTOBER 2024

Shocktober reading has started a little slow. I listened to Cujo while driving up to Madison and back, and today I started Carrie, narrated by Sissy Spacek, with an introduction by Margaret Atwood.

Carrie is a story for all time, but especially for these times. Restrictive, hate-filled religiosity and cruelty is deep in Americana DNA, but has elite power ever backed that play the way they are in the Fall of 2024? Stephen King may have already written a book about it.

He was a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight, and now, on the morning of June 16, 1980, he was pre-rabid.

Stephen King,

Cujo

I also completed my second listen-through of my Bandcamp collection, in order of purchase. It’s a kinda OCD way to listen to music but in a world where an infinity of music is available on a phone, a constraint helps me focus and give a little more energy to what I’m listening to. Even something that isn’t really doing it for me, I can study on why.