JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 11:11 PM Friday, September 02, 2005
The Running Man
I have always read a lot, since I was a kid. When I was in the Navy I read a lot of books when we were out to sea and one of my favorites authors during that time was Stephen King, not to mention Tom Clancy and Louis L'Amour.
One of King's book that has been on my mind a lot over these past few years is The Running Man. You may have seen the movie, but the book is a lot different and I think a much better work. Anyway, there have also been a lot of similarities between my experience over the past few years and that of the protagonist character in the book.
One notable event happened a few years ago when I was still working with Microsoft, although was soon to quit, and I was living in an apartment in Redmond. Noises bother me a lot and the people in the apartment above me were causing quit a commotion. It sounded like they had a lot of people in there and they were all stomping around. I went up there and knocked on the door. Before they opened it, I heard someone on the other side say, "Shh, it's the running man."
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/quotes
IMDb
Pet Sematary (1989)
Quotes
Louis Creed: Has anyone ever buried a person up there?
Jud Crandall: Christ on his throne no. Who ever would?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 29, 2006
This has also been a good exercise to suggest how I would behave in the future if I ever develop Alzheimer's. It was funny the other day; I was taking the bus down Aurora, I had just written something earlier in my journal about this feeling as though I was in the early stages of Alzheimers. I noticed a Holiday Inn Express had on their sign outside on the first line something about "continental breakfast." On the second line was "Alzheimer's Disease." I read it in the context of those commercials they run where people say things such as "I'm not really a brain surgeon, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night." It's clever and disturbing all at the same time. I doubt even Stephen King could write anything as disturbing as my reality every day.
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http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=pet-sematary
Springfield! Springfield!
Pet Sematary (1989)
[ Jud Crandall: ] Rachel's asleep.
[ Ellie Creed: ] I want to go back to my own room. I can't sleep with Mommy. She keeps stealing the covers.
[ Jud Crandall: ] Ellie, what you got there? Hmm? What you got there? Let me see.
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http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
DAY TIME. Sumner walks to the end of the village where Sergeant Bates is looking through a pair of binoculars at something in the distance. On seeing Sumner beside him, he hands over the binoculars. Sumner takes them and looks where Bates had been looking. Some distance away is a ruined city.
BATES: We didn't even know it was there until the sun came up.
SUMNER: Looks more promising than anything else these folks have to offer. Plenty of shelter, a nice little valley. (He lowers the binoculars.) Location, location, location.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 01:01 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 16 June 2015
