If you’re not an avid reader of Entertainment Weekly  - which is hard to imagine - you may not know that Stephen King has a regular column.  He doesn’t appear every week but drops in often enough to remind us all just how scary he is.  Well, actually, his words usually aren’t too terrifying, except when he talks about rap music, but the photo that accompanies his column is creepy.  As you would expect. 

In the interest of disclosure, I will admit that every damn week I first flip to the last page of the magazine to see what King has to say and, yeah, I get the teeniest bit disappointed if he takes a week off.  But, good news, he wrote something this week (or whenever this edition went to print). His newest article is titled My Manifesto.  I don’t know exactly what he was going for with that banner, but his basic point is that he loves pop culture and loves to write about it. 

He yammered on about music, movies and Michael Jackson.  He even touched on the the literary critic who had a fit when King received an award from the National Book Foundation for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters - a moment in time that clearly fills King with glee.  He also said this about some recent books: 

I thought The Historian was a bore, but I think it’s wonderful that a book by an unknown first novelist could displace the seemingly immortal Dan Brown on the best-seller lists.  I like it that the new Harry Potter novel is being delivered to bookstores in 16-wheelers, and that gazillions of kids stayed up until midnight to buy that sucker.  I like the idea that gazillions of adults are going to read it, too.

Now, the rest of you might be thinking all that but King said it.  That’s why we still love him.

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