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The Pod of the Cosmic Turtle08/10/2026
Well folks, here we are, a year to the day since I started this blog. Our heroes have traveled thousands of wheels, been through much, and finally the gunslinger has…

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I Cry Your Pardon

09/19/2020

Stephen King’s Tower of Needful Things

09/25/2020

The Gunslinger’s Guide To Daddy Issues

10/03/2020

God’s Gunslingers: the Birds of the Dark Tower

10/10/2020

A Blessing In Disguise: How Having Your Fingers Bitten Off By A Venomous Lobster Can Change Your Life.

10/17/2020

Ka: Two Little Letters That Mean Everything & Nothing

10/24/2020

Never Trust A Speaking Demon

10/31/2020

Ka Is An Election Cycle

11/06/2020

The Gunslinger and My Grandfather

11/13/2020

How The Waste Lands Puts The Ka-Tet To Shame

11/20/2020

Jake Chambers’ Day Off: Revisiting The Waste Lands In 2020

11/28/2020

Confidence Is The Key: How Stephen King Teaches Us To Bet On Ourselves

12/04/2020

Who Cares?: What A Haunted House, A Billy-Bumbler, And Black Dog Ka All Have In Common

12/12/2020

The Unofficial (and Unfinished) Dark Tower Board Game

12/15/2020

Stephen King’s Problem With Authority

12/22/2020

Roland Deschain v. Andy Dufresne

12/29/2020

Blaine The Mono: Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity

01/05/2021

Ka-Tetiquette: Minding Your Manners In A World That’s Moved On

01/12/2021

Calling Stephen King’s Bluff In Wizard &Glass

01/19/2021

Young vs. Old: A Mid-Life Crisis In Mid-World

01/26/2021

The Power Of Stories: Tall Tales & Private Passions

02/02/2021

Is Ka Just Code For Cowardice?

02/09/2021

Act Your Age: How The Dark Tower Can Help Us Live In The Present

02/15/2021

Roland’s Terrible Mistake(s)

02/23/2021

“I have Been True”: Susan Delgado’s Happy Ending

03/02/2021

I Kill With My Heart: The Hypocrisy Of the Gunslinger’s Creed

03/09/2021

The Dangers Of Storytelling: Witches And Grapefruits And Thinnies, Oh My!

03/16/2021

Could Flagg Actually Be A Good Guy?

03/22/2021

Stephen King’s Bad Case Of Survivor’s Guilt

03/30/2021

Who’s Your Daddy?: The Absent Fathers of the Stephen King Universe

04/06/2021

How to Survive A Starkblast

04/13/2021

The End of the Beginning & the Beginning of the End

04/20/2021

Todash & Time

04/27/2021

You Can’t Pick Stephen King’s Nose

05/04/2021

The Key To Ka-Tet: Diversity

05/11/2021

Songs of the Dark Tower

05/18/2021

Second Guessing Stephen King: Getting To The Bottom Of Roland’s Grow-Bag

05/25/2021

A Priest & A Manni Walk Into A Bar: Organized Religion In The Dark Tower

06/01/2021

Who You Gonna Cal?

06/08/2021

Is Jake Chambers An LGBTQ Character?

06/15/2021

The Gestation of Stephen King’s Chap

06/22/2021

Obsessing over Obsession in Song of Susannah

06/29/2021

The Power Of Promises In The Dark Tower

07/06/2021

Oh Discordia & Double Standards In The Dark Tower

07/13/2021

The Craftiness of Stephen King’s Foreshadowing

07/20/2021

Rewriting Your Reality: The Diary Of Stephen King

07/27/2021

Is The Dark Tower Movie Good Actually?: In Defense Of The Indefensible

08/03/2021

Stephen King’s Not-So-Fond Farewell To Randall Flagg

08/10/2021

Ka-Shume: TFW The End Is Nigh

08/16/2021

The Worst Part Of The Dark Tower

08/24/2021

Who Is The Crimson King?

08/31/2021

The Last Temptation Of Stephen King

09/07/2021

The Two Types Of Artists At The End Of The Dark Tower

09/14/2021

I Finally Took Stephen King’s Advice

09/19/2021