Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Sanford News, Duma Key

My  new Sanford News column can be read at http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130523/GJCOMMUNITY03/130529662/-1/SANNEWS   Most of it is about the 80's, when I was a teenager, so if you remember that long-ago decade you may like it. And if you don't remember the 80's, well, you still may like it.

The sun is shining and the temperature is almost 70! It's about time. We haven't had any warm weather yet and after the winter we had, seventy degrees feels good. Seventy-five will feel better. Thursday could be over 80. I'll try not to complain about it. Everyone else will - "Boy, I can't wait till wintah" - but you'd be hard pressed to hear me say it's too hot and I can't wait for winter.

I'm reading Stephen King's "Duma Key". It's actually really good, much better than I expected. I'm about halfway through. The main character, Edgar Freemantle, is an artist using his paintings to kill criminals and heal friends with bullets in their heads. Sounds strange, yes, but this is all perfectly normal in the world of Stephen King. I don't like a lot of his story lines, especially when they drift way over into sci-fi, but I love the way he writes. And so far, "Duma Key" is a good story, among my favorite Stephen King books. It's a long book, around 600 pages, but so far it's going quickly.

I've got 3 more episodes left before I am finished with season 3 of Arrested Development. I may watch them tonight. Then I move on to the new episodes on Netflix. I can't wait, I hope they are as good as the older ones.

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