I was watching the Yankees/Red Sox game this afternoon, when they panned over to a shot of Stephen King. They (McCarver and Buck, I can’t remember which) proceeded to make fun of the fact he had like three pairs of glasses clipped to his shirt, and also talked about how he had recovered from a motorcycle accident a few years back.

Well, it wasn’t a motorcycle accident. He was hit by a van while out for a walk. I guess a motor vehicle was involved, but this about as far from a motorcycle accident as you can get.

And the reason Stephen King is there, besides being a big Red Sox fan, is he’s working on a book about the 2004 Red Sox season. Stephen King is one of the best writers of our generation, and is to the horror genre what J.R.R. Tolkien was to the fantasy genre. I’ll be checking this out for sure when it comes out, as I do everything Mr. King writes.

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