Stephen King

My favorite author in the whole world and I figure it's time I make a post about him. I own every single book he's got in circulation with the exception of one. I own a whole bunch of the magazine articles and short stories that were only printed in magazines, many that were only printed once. I own one of a kind items from some of his movies and I know that they are one of a kind because the people who worked on the movie sent them to me from the set. I am far and away one of the biggest fans of the man. My current collection of his work is approaching the 1,000 piece mark. I have nearly as many Stephen King pieces in my collection as I do autographs in my collection including 5 books signed by the man himself and they sell for well into the $500-$1,000 range on ebay sometimes. I guess you could say that I am a pretty big fan all in all. Today I got the Bernie Wrightson edition of Frankenstein that has an introduction by Stephen King and it came with a signed bookplate of Wrightson as well.

I'm sure that if anyone wanted to know about Stephen King I could tell them about him and be more than happy to fill an hour or two worth of conversation. Stephen King, Star Wars and collecting autographs are about the only three things that I can talk to people normally and not get flustered about simply because I know so much about them.

People ask me about my disabilty and I'll just forget everything. I know that I had bacterial meningitis and I know that I spent 9 months in the hospital from it after spending 9 days in a coma. I know I still have seizures from it and they suck but other than that I can't tell you jack squat about the disease itself. What causes it, how I got it, if I'm ever going to get it again, if I'm cured, I honestly don't know. I could kick over dead tomorrow for all I know. I'm sure people would care and I'm sure people would cry and be sad but if anyone was asked what they knew about me what would anyone actually say? I don't know what the answer to that would be to be quite honest. You always see on the news after someone has done something horrible they say "He was such a nice guy, we never expected this to happen." Is that what they'll say about me when I die?