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[drewbear]

Found a recently built/opened strip mall near my apartment which contains (in order) a check-cashing place, a GameStop, Condoms Express, and Payless Shoes. An odd combination to say the least. I checked out the GameStop and bought 3 used DVDs under a "buy 2, get 1 free" deal. My choices? Pitch Black, The Usual Suspects, and Stephen King's The Golden Years. All for less than $25 total.

I then checked out the Condoms Express for kicks, and encountered a hilarious loophole in Texas law. The sale of sexual toys is illegal in Texas (I think there're only 3 or 4 states left with laws like that), but there's an interesting loophole available for your porn perveyors (or porn pervs, your choice): you can't sell sextoys, but you CAN sell "gag gifts" and "cake toppers". Let's just let that image simmer for a bit, shall we?

...Yeah. Cake toppers. They were selling a 12-inch vibrator, as seen here, as a cake topper. Try getting *that* image outta yer head.

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[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Dunno what written work it's based on (I don't actually read that much King), but it was TV miniseries aired in the 90s. (Very) basic plot: military research lab has a late-night accident the facility is suppossed to be empty. Of course, everyone forgets about the janitor. The janitor is an old man (70s?) and exposed to the accident, which causes him to age-regress at an increasing rate. I.e., he starts by youthening 1 second per second, which ramps up to 1 minute per second, so on and so forth, until he de-ages into... (cant give it all away, can I?). His wife and a researcher at the lab help him get away from the evil (of course) military who wants to experiment on him, and the miniseries documents their time on the run.

I generally like the King miniseries better than the movie adaptations, because there's more time to fully explore the weirdnesses he packs into his books. "The Stand" is another mini that I want to get.