While Kip was scanning old violent art, he came across the page in his 8th grade year book that I signed.  I really don’t know why I decided to sign his year book this way, but I did…in ink.  So I thought I’d share it since it’s pretty hilarious (at least I think so).

Some observations:

• We thought it was funny that Charles Manson’s kids also smoke cigars.
• I said “You’re coller than Charles Manson.”  Typo aside, I think that’s a fairly decent compliment.
• I don’t know the accuracy of the Charles Manson quote, “I’m gonna kill you.”  He may or may not have ever said that.
• I think the Home Simpson stuff came from an episode of The Simpsons (maybe a Treehouse of Horror?) where someone (Homer?) went crazy and was like “There’s Homer Simpson, there’s Homer Simpson.”  Maybe someone else can clarify exactly what that was about, because I don’t really remember.
• The Swastika on Charles Manson’s head is a left-facing Swastika (also referred to as a sauwastika) found in Hindu and Buddhist tradition, and the bottom one (as well as Kip’s “Nazi Star”) are of the right-facing decorative Hindu form rather than the Swastikas that the Nazi’s used.

There you have it.  A small view into my crazy messed up brain.

Apparently one of two things has happened: Either Stephen King has read my previous post, or I'm some kind of prolific visionary on par with Stephen King's thought processes. Just to stroke my ego, I'll think both, heh.

"What the crap are you talking?" you say. Well, I'll show you.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20050689,00.html

That one little part near the beginning of his review he talks about the exact same thing I did. To be certain, Mr. King's version is better structured and more articulate, but the ideas are the same nonetheless.

I'll just hang on to this for later so at some time in the future I can ask Stephen to "do me a solid," as the kids say.

Me: 1, Stephen King: 40 billion (cause that's how many books he's written…in the last year)