Questa volta, però, complice la leggerezza del weekend e il fatto che sia coinvolto uno dei miei attori preferiti, non resisto...
Via Zie's got you high...
CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER
THE WOLFMAN
THE ENTITY

Da piccolo sogni di diventare astronauta, calciatore, scrittore, esploratore o chissà che altro.
Un tempo pubblicare i propri scritti gratuitamente era praticamente impossibile o molto difficile.
oi state già pagando un sacco quando leggete dei miei scritti.
Altra cosa importante, già detta, la pubblicazione del materiale in elettronico avverrà in contemporanea rispetto al cartaceo, possibilmente anche prima.
Edizioni XII ha dato l'annuncio della futura pubblicazione, nel mese di maggio 2010, di un volume di critica sull'opera di Garth Ennis.
LEGION
BLOOD CREEK
Hide and SeekIt was rules that got you where you were and more rules that kept you there, kids turning into premature adults, adults putting in the hard day's work for wife and more kids and mortgaged house and car, and nobody ever got out from under. That was rule number one. You didn't get out.
I'd seen it happen to my parents.
The rule said, see, your foot is in the bear trap now and you're the one that put it there, so don't expect to come away alive; we didn't set it up for that.
The problem was always money. The slightest twitch in the economy would sluice tidal waves through the whole community.
We were always close to oblivion. The price of fish would change in Boston and half the town would be lined up at the bank, begging for money.
It might have made us tougher, but it didn't. All you saw were the stooped shoulders and the slow crawl toward bitterness and old age.
I'd moved out on my parents three years ago, when it became too hard to watch my father come up broke and empty after another season hauling in sardines in Passamaquoddy Bay and to watch my mother's house go slowly down around her. They were good people, and they were fools, and after a while all I could bring to them was anger.
At the time I didn't even know what I was mad about, but I knew it wasn't working. So I found myself the job at the yard and then a little two-room apartment over Brody's Hardware on Main Street, and I'd stop by the house whenever I could stand it, which wasn't often.
Every now and then I'd wonder why I didn't get out entirely. The answer was the one I gave Casey.
Inertia.
A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all. I was lazy. Demoralized. Always had been.
She swung down the stairs and the T-shirt looked painted on.
By a very steady hand. She stood there slightly out of breath, smiling, smelling very clean and freshly showered. She moved to her father and pecked him on the cheek. "Bye, Daddy."
He managed to raise a weak smile. I could not see much in the way of affection between them.
"You'll be late?"
"Don't know. Maybe. Say goodnight to mother for me."
"Yes."
He stood up absentmindedly but with some effort. It was learned behavior but its hold on him was stronger than the discomfort it caused him. Or that's how it looked to me. When a lady leaves the room, you stand. Even if it's your daughter. It was years of habit talking.
But it wasn't making life any easier for him. Like everything else I'd seen him do, its net effect was zero. Except to make you wonder where all that lethargy came from.
Here was a man, I thought, inhabiting a great big void.
We drank our beers and watched the Caribou fill up steadily with the after-work crowd.
I was always interested to see the mix. Jeans, dirty Tshirts, overalls, business suits from Sears.
We got salesmen, fishermen, laborers. A smattering of women. All kinds of people. Bars up here don't cater to a single type of crowd the way they do in the cities. There's not enough clientele for that.
Bar life is about as democratic as we get.
"Let's drive," she said.
I started the car. Since we'd met, how many times had she said that now? Let's drive. Let's just drive. It never mattered where. Slice a fissure of black macadam through time.
Drive me.
Orders from the lost to the superfluous.
And I think I saw, glimpsed where I fit in then. Where Kim and Steve fit in too.
We were just diversions, really. Bodies of water suitable for a brief immersion.
I diverted her into passion. If we were lucky, orgasm.
Steve and Kim into something that looked like friendship but was probably more like continuity, habit. Company.
There was nothing--not even herfatherorthe memory of her brother--between Casey and Casey. Not anymore. She'd expelled everybody else. Maybe it's like that for all of us. I don't know.
I know we all are lonely.
Locked off from one another in some fundamental secrecy.
But some of us declare war and some of us don't.
This isn't a value judgment upon Casey. I'm sure she had her reasons,that for her it was the only strategy. I don't think she came to it out of any elemental cruelty.
But war is still death.
Death made unselective and infectious. Tonight she'd repelled a minor invasion. But it had cost her. A piece of her father, a piece of me. And something of herself too.
She was dying.
She would always be. Casey could survive, but not intact. There were some rules she couldn't break.
And the best of her was as vulnerable as the worst.
It had been a kind of workshop once; you could see that much.
Beyond the boiler, against the wall to the far left, was a long, broad wooden table covered with dust and grime, warped and rotting away in places, cluttered with debris from the broken shelves above it.
Spilled boxes of nails, broken mason jars that had probably held screws and fittings. A rusted wood plane and a broken rusted hacksaw.
The spiderwebs were thick here. There was a strange thick smell in the air. I guessed it was mold and mildew, some of it wafting up from a greasy, almost liquid-looking pile of rags off to the far right corner, and some of it from the piles of wood shavings that surrounded the table like gray-yellow anthills.
Some of them were near three feet high.
I could also smell paint or varnish, but I couldn't find its source at first. Then Kim brought her flashlight around beneath the table and I could see cans and cans of them, tumbled and spilling all over, their contents freezing them together like some crazy sculpture.
CODICE: GENESI
