Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]

Just watched Louis Theroux’s new doc about Israeli settlers. I felt like his life was in danger every time he talked to one of them. They are all armed, deranged lunatics.

I’m listening to the audiobook for Fairy Tale by Stephen King. It’s not bad so far, but it has been funny because it’s from the POV of a 16 year old boy in 2013, but it’s fairly clear it’s written by the then ~75 year old King. The only references to pop culture so far have been Cujo, the original Psycho, and a nonspecific mention that the main character’s favorite music is classic rock/heavy metal.

The Cujo reference was pretty astounding because a character references it offhand as a pop culture totem, a thing everyone knows. It didn’t feel like a sly wink-wink-nod-nod “I wrote that” from King, it was totally natural.

And while it’s not impossible that a 17 year old in 2013 could have seen the 1960 film Psycho, it still definitely feels like a very old man writing about his own youth, or maybe the times when his now-middle-aged sons were young. For the first ten minutes or so I just assumed this story was set in the late '50s like the first half of IT. It wasn’t until the narrator mentioned Amazon that I realized it was supposed to be more current.

I’m sure plenty of 17 year olds in 2013 happened to share Stephen King’s love of baseball, but there’s been no reference to YouTube, or whatever TV was popular among teens that year, or celebrities, or video games. At the very least this guy should have an opinion of Justin Bieber. There’s no way the only things a 17 year old in 2013 likes are Psycho, baseball, and classic rock.

Didn’t Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law die in a Tesla just last year?

Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.