02-01-2026, 09:20 AM
(02-01-2026, 09:11 AM)rowens Wrote: As Neil Gaiman and much of the '80s British Comic Book writers were using Chaos Magick as registers for their pantheons and worldviews, you are stating here that you are a Magickian.I never actually saw American Gods as I, as well, don't have the means either to find it or to view it but I did read the novel along with its much better cousin Anansi Boys (as well as, probably, everything else he wrote as far back as his stint with Vertigo during the Sandman run)> I have somehow seen Coraline which I deem as well - excellent in story, presentation and contribution to the mythos.
American Gods and Twin Peaks: The Return aired simultaneously, pretty much, in 2017. Since I didn't have the channels they aired on, I had to have adventures to find places to watch them as they aired. I always used such intensities to add to my personal myth. The Mist, a Stephen King series, was also airing.
The attitudes toward King in reference to Gaiman vs Bloom also come to mind here. I'm an associative thinker and liver. My liver, as you can probably see coming, likes to associate with alcohol. Then again, everything is associated to everything else. Emphasis on "again".
Damn, the word Emphasis gets me horny.
King is another one - an almost untouched legend of thought for many years but it feels like maybe his image is tarnishing in the current age - like he lived longer than was expected which is, of course, possibly true. I read the Mist in a book of short stories (Night Shift maybe) but that is another one that I have never seen the movie. I know they made another movie loosely based off one of the stories from that book - maybe lawnmower man. I did see that but I remember it not being very much like the story but only that it was much better - the story was trash.

