The Stephen King Pages

[Camazotz Automat]

note: As Stephen King somehow survived the van accident in this timeline, it is only proper to create a dedicated thread while I am still here.

In the timelines I visited prior, he was most certainly dead, his body preserved via cryogenics. Many years after King's death, a slightly unfinished and unknown novel was found in a hidden compartment in King's writing office. Titled Hell's Jester, it was finished by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, and published posthumously in 2017.  Many in those timelines consider it King's crowning achievement. Personal notations made by King indicate he had been working on the book throughout his entire professional writing career and wanted it published only after his death. Indeed, it was mentioned in his will, but its location remained unknown until 2015.

In EVERY timeline I've checked (that contained the van accident) King perished. This is also the only timeline that birthed a shitty TV series based on King's Under the Dome.

This timeline is an abomination. 

I've also noticed that the Cam in this timeline is a bit of a dick.  We've had more than a few words. His opinion of me is faulty and not to be trusted.

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Here is a less common piece of ephemera I picked up somewhere somewhen.

It is a teacher's manual highlighting Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, & Nightshift: Excursions Into Horror.

By Edward J. Zagorski, 1981, published by New American Library. 4" x 7" booklet, 46 pages.

[jazmunda]

How are you traveling between dimensions?

I'm suspect as to whether you can actually do this.

[Camazotz Automat]

How are you traveling between dimensions?

I'm suspect as to whether you can actually do this.

Let's just call it Fidget Technology.

[eddie dean]

You're a 'walk-in' Cam?

[Camazotz Automat]

You're a 'walk-in' Cam?

Yes.  And thank you.

Much nicer words than what this timeline's Cam called me.  I don't care what they say about you in other timelines, eddie dean. You're OK.


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Oh, and no judgment from me if anyone liked the Under the Dome TV series, because I liked the first season okey dokey, though the teenager angle was already getting to be a real pain. 

The second season was what really crucified me. I would rather watch David Soul in the somewhat clunky 'Salem's Lot than to suffer Under the Dome Season 3.

[jazmunda]

Let's just call it Fidget Technology.

Ahh. I use the same technology in my toilets. Sorry for the mess.

[Heather Wade]

note: As Stephen King somehow survived the van accident in this timeline, it is only proper to create a dedicated thread while I am still here.

In the timelines I visited prior, he was most certainly dead, his body preserved via cryogenics. Many years after King's death, a slightly unfinished and unknown novel was found in a hidden compartment in King's writing office. Titled Hell's Jester, it was finished by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, and published posthumously in 2017.  Many in those timelines consider it King's crowning achievement. Personal notations made by King indicate he had been working on the book throughout his entire professional writing career and wanted it published only after his death. Indeed, it was mentioned in his will, but its location remained unknown until 2015.

In EVERY timeline I've checked (that contained the van accident) King perished. This is also the only timeline that birthed a shitty TV series based on King's Under the Dome.

This timeline is an abomination. 

I've also noticed that the Cam in this timeline is a bit of a dick.  We've had more than a few words. His opinion of me is faulty and not to be trusted.


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Here is a less common piece of ephemera I picked up somewhere somewhen.

It is a teacher's manual highlighting Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, & Nightshift: Excursions Into Horror.

By Edward J. Zagorski, 1981, published by New American Library. 4" x 7" booklet, 46 pages.

This part, I certainly believe.  It seems odd, however, that a timeline without Stephen King would be better.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Yes.  And thank you.

Much nicer words than what this timeline's Cam called me.  I don't care what they say about you in other timelines, eddie dean. You're OK.


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Oh, and no judgment from me if anyone liked the Under the Dome TV series, because I liked the first season okey dokey, though the teenager angle was already getting to be a real pain. 

The second season was what really crucified me. I would rather watch David Soul in the somewhat clunky 'Salem's Lot than to suffer Under the Dome Season 3.

Which Cam has been regularly posting in this forum?

[zeebo]

Which Cam has been regularly posting in this forum?

The good one.  Or, maybe the bad one, posing as the good one.  Damn.  Where timelines are involved, trust no one.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

The good one.  Or, maybe the bad one, posing as the good one.  Damn.  Where timelines are involved, trust no one.

Evil Bender...is actually Bender.

[zeebo]

Evil Bender...is actually Bender.

Exactly.  Hmm, I almost think you may be the good Monk. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Which Cam has been regularly posting in this forum?

It can't be the one with the menacing goatee who's sitting in my favorite chair right now watching Wishmaster 7 and drinking up my best liquor, because he''s never heard of Stuckey's. 

[Camazotz Automat]

It can't be the one with the menacing goatee who's sitting in my favorite chair right now watching Wishmaster 7 and drinking up my best liquor, because he''s never heard of Stuckey's.

Speaking of Stuckey's.

I don't know if Stuckey's is a metaphor for Stephen King or if King is a metaphor for Stuckey's, but the prevalence of both in so many timelines cannot be ignored and is proof that the two are somehow entwined like the snakes on Mercury's key - there are so many comparisons that are valid.  But I still don't quite "get it."  The importance of King's relationship to Stuckey's, I mean.

A warning: A goatee augmented Cam who has not heard of Stuckey's might be unstable (both mentally and in spiking radioactivity levels). Timelines that have never heard of Stephen King and/or Stuckey's are classified as "dangerously hot."

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[BobGrau]

Which Cam has been regularly posting in this forum?

Cam's posts are often far from regular.

[jazmunda]

It's a strong possibility that BellGab itself exists in the alternate evil universe. In the "good" universe BellGab is extremely sanitized and bland and is probably called georgenooryisfabulous.com. On the plus side Noory is almost listenable.

[zeebo]

It's a strong possibility that BellGab itself exists in the alternate evil universe. In the "good" universe BellGab is extremely sanitized and bland and is probably called georgenooryisfabulous.com. On the plus side Noory is almost listenable.

That universe rocks.  Ice cream sundaes are more healthy than broccoli.  The U.S. is 18 trillion dollars in surplus.  And the ending of Lost was actually awesome.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Speaking of Stuckey's.

I don't know if Stuckey's is a metaphor for Stephen King or if King is a metaphor for Stuckey's, but the prevalence of both in so many timelines cannot be ignored and is proof that the two are somehow entwined like the snakes on Mercury's key - there are so many comparisons that are valid.  But I still don't quite "get it."  The importance of King's relationship to Stuckey's, I mean.

There's a good chance the Pecan Log Lady knows the truth about that if you can decipher her riddles and owl imagery.

A warning: A goatee augmented Cam who has not heard of Stuckey's might be unstable (both mentally and in spiking radioactivity levels). Timelines that have never heard of Stephen King and/or Stuckey's are classified as "dangerously hot."

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No worries, I slipped out while he was in the kitchen getting more ice.  I'm miles away in a secure location and have contacted the appropriate Time Enforcement authorities.

[Camazotz Automat]

Which Cam has been regularly posting in this forum?

The good one.  Or, maybe the bad one, posing as the good one.  Damn.  Where timelines are involved, trust no one.

Evil Bender...is actually Bender.

Cam's posts are often far from regular.

The following graphic should answer all questions and leave behind absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever:

[zeebo]

The following graphic should answer all questions and leave behind absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever:

Damn is it gonna take a friggin Vulcan mind meld to get this sorted out?

[yoego]

The following graphic should answer all questions and leave behind absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever:

That looks like a heavy rock, don't drop that thing on your toe! My buddy moses used to have one just like it!

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

The following graphic should answer all questions and leave behind absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever:

Damnit Cam, I'm a doctor engineer unemployed bum, not a bricklayer cryptologist. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

"Walk carefully in the Vault of Tomorrow." 

[WOTR]

Ahh. I use the same technology in my toilets. Sorry for the mess.

Take the fidget technology out of your toilet and put it to proper use.  Besides, it is running backwards in your toilet and causing irreparable damage.


You would quickly discover that in addition to this being the only timeline where King did not perish in a van wreck, it is also the only timeline where George took over as the full time host of Coast.  In most others Art is still going strong with the few exceptions where Knapp quit television for radio.


Some people (myself included), believe that this particular timeline may be hell (or at least purgatory) for souls who had one too many transgressions in past lives.  The recent discovery that we are the only people who suffer through "under the dome" in addition to George Noory only strengthens this theory.

[Camazotz Automat]

That looks like a heavy rock, don't drop that thing on your toe! My buddy moses used to have one just like it!

I daresay, ~yoego~, this Horta script shan't separate these phalanges anytime soon, but I will proceed with caution.

Say 'hello' to your buddy for me the next time you're flying through Moab.

He owes me a drink for ultimately losing that "strike the rock with no consequences" bet. 

You would quickly discover that in addition to this being the only timeline where King did not perish in a van wreck, it is also the only timeline where George took over as the full time host of Coast.  

At this point, any jury would have no choice but to issue a verdict of "guilty" as timelined.

Damnit Cam, I'm a doctor engineer unemployed bum, not a bricklayer cryptologist. 

Bless the unemployed, for they shall inherit the 1112-0100-6534-5555-2105.

[Camazotz Automat]

Given the date, it behooves me to mention this book in The Stephen King Pages today:

title: 11/22/63
by King, Stephen 2011.

"On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time."

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

The following graphic should answer all questions and leave behind absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever:

We could learn many valuable lessons by studying Horta culture, especially the time when their civilization was in full flower.

[Yorkshire pud]

We could learn many valuable lessons by studying Horta culture, especially the time when their civilization was in full flower.

I once took a whore to culture; Ten minutes in a gallery. Seriously.

[eddie dean]

Given the date, it behooves me to mention this book in The Stephen King Pages today:

title: 11/22/63
by King, Stephen 2011.

"On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time."

11/22/63 is a great read! It's one of King's best efforts in many years.
He is quite fond of the time portal theory in his stories. I wonder if he listens to C2C.

[Yorkshire pud]

11/22/63 is a great read! It's one of King's best efforts in many years.
He is quite fond of the time portal theory in his stories. I wonder if he listens to C2C.

Better than that; you never see Noory and King in the same room. No coincidence.

[WildCard]

11/22/63 is a great read! It's one of King's best efforts in many years.

Really? I'll check it out.


After he got hit I kept reading him and I was afraid we'd lost him. Then I read The Dark Tower and, wow.
Which is weird cause I tried to read the first one when it came out and didn't like it.

He is quite fond of the time portal theory in his stories. I wonder if he listens to C2C.

C2C rots your brain. He doesn't need that.


Does he do any interviews? I'm sure he knows who Art is.


bateman?