Tag Archives: Stephen King

Yahoo News reports: Bestselling writer King tweeted on Monday he would be “gone like Enron” if Twitter made him pay $20 to keep his blue checkmark. He added, “Fuck that, they should pay me.” In response to King’s tweet, Musk said: “We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers.” The billionaire made a suggestion to …

The Des Moines Register reports: Stephen King is making a personal appeal to Iowans: Vote Steve King out so people won’t confuse the two of them anymore. The best-selling author tweeted Sunday morning about his exhaustion at being confused with Iowa’s controversial 4th District Republican congressman. A Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll of the district shows that on a generic …

Slate reports: This is the year for long-gestating Stephen King adaptations. We’ve already gotten a look at It, the latest version of King’s 1986 novel, and now comes The Dark Tower, based on the eight-book fantasy saga King began with The Gunslinger in 1982. The first of King’s short stories set in that universe actually dates back to 1978, making …

An “epic rap battle.” I think Poe wins.

Yesterday author Stephen King fired out several tweets in support of Obamacare, bringing attacks from Twitchy, little Ben Shapiro, and wingnut radio shrieker Dana Loesch, who clearly has zero self-awareness.

“[If] the Bush administration didn’t think [waterboarding] was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation. Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn’t think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it …