Stephen King's Wizard and Glass - The Dark Tower Book 4 - Continuing

Wizard and Glass has proven so far to be interesting. Far from the gritty Clint Eastwood-level manliness of The Gunslinger, book 4 of the series involves witches and oddly handled teenage romance. This part of Wizard and Glass deals with Roland's first mission outside of Gilead. He is accompanied by his friends Cuthbert and Alain, and they pose as members of some government order from New Canaan. Roland meets Susan Delgado, a girl in a strange situation (she's bound by her word to become the mayor of her town's babymama) who he apparently falls in love with.
The action in Wizard and Glass so far has circled around a man named Depape. He is an outcast gunslinger who never gained the title. I haven't finished the book, but there's got to be an interesting showdown at some point.

McDonalds Advertisement

Name of Ad: McDonalds Advertisement
Target: Potential customers
Purpose: To go to and eat at McDonalds
Emotions: Fun through the use of a clown.
Connect: Shows happy children enjoying food.
Improvement: Less scary clown.
Memorable: Yes. The clown is frightening.

Pathos Blog

McDonalds Adbuster.
Target: McDonalds fans.
Purpose/Communication: McDonalds is bad for you.
Emotions: There are injections and radioactive symbols. It means gross. Yes, it is effective.
Connect: Yes, because it shows food you eat.
Improvement: None.
Memorable: No, because EVERYONE knows McDonalds is bad for you.

Dedrabbit Manifesto

Manifesto is a small, blank-covered book that I bought in a comic shop a few years ago for $5 -- and my favorite book of all time. It lists no author, linking only to a dedrabbit website which, in turn, has nothing but a list of people who sell the book. What I bought is an incredible journey through the human condition. It has no story, no plot, no setting, no characters. It is, simply, a piece of art; even without all of those things, it still gives the same feeling as Catcher in the Rye, or A Clockwork Orange -- it feels like a product of the punk movement, the hipster movement, the "jock" crowd, the emotional crowd, feminists, male chauvinists, etc. The book is infinitely immersive in its content. Finding a copy would be difficult, but if you can, go for it.

Stephen King's Wizard and Glass -- Part 1

Wizard and Glass is pretty exciting. It begins with a highly stressful riddle contest against Blaine the Mono, a psychotic train. It ruins nothing to tell you that the group (Roland's Ka-Tet) wins this contest. Once they beat Blaine, they find themselves, oddly enough, in Kansas; but it's not their Kansas. The Dark Tower series seems to be incorporating many different alternate universes, melded together into one. Everything is still very interesting, and the book really does make you wonder how Roland's world moved on.

Stephen King's The Waste Lands

Stephen King's The Waste Lands is the third book in the famous Dark Tower series, of which a new book just came out (oddly enough, it is a mid-quel, taking place between the fourth and fifth books), and yes, it does take its name from that famous T.S. Elliot poem. Having Roland, Eddie, and the new idea of Odetta, named Susannah, our characters are firmly developed -- or are they? The Waste Lands reintroduces Jake, a character prominently featured in The Gunslinger and who made a small appearance in The Drawing of The Three. It's got much more going on than The Drawing of the Three, though probably not as much as The Gunslinger.
Here, our characters face many challenges that range from jumping from world to world to fending off tribal freaks of nature in a city like New York called Lud. The ending is a very extreme cliffhanger, starring Blaine the Mono, a psychotic train obsessed with riddles and wordplay. It's a more entertaining book than The Drawing of The Three, I think, but with less intellectual content. Go check it out if you've got the time.

Picasso's Guernica

The tortured faces of those in pain make themselves prevalent in the painting, their attention focused on the light overhead, as if looking for some salvation that would not come. It is a colorless mass, dominated by greys, blacks, and whites, with large-open spaces covered by jungles of figures, a claustrophobic nightmarish depression of no-space and dull color. From the dead, few survivors reach up to the light, asking for a moment of peaceful lack of worry, but this is not granted to them. The light shining covers only a small space; the rest is left for the demons.