Trendy Expressions to Throw Under the Bus
iReporters — Just because you have a camera on your cell phone and you happened to be at Sea World when Shamu the Killer Whale gobbled up a trainer, that does not make you a journalist. You are a schmuck with a camera who happened to get lucky.
Optics — CNN, Fox News, NBC, CBS — all of the networks — have fallen in love with this irritating new way of saying “image,” “visuals,” or “photo ops,” all of which are perfectly good terms.
Throw Him or Her Under the Bus — I guess you’re no longer allowed to backstab or double-cross anyone.
Back in the Day — This stopped being cute way back in the day.
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Stephen King’s Bad Habits
What do the following books have in common? Christine, Misery, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, The Dead Zone.
Now what do these books have in common? Cell, Duma Key, Under the Dome, Insomnia, From a Buick 8.
If you said the first batch of Stephen King novels became movies, and the second group did not, you are correct. If you said that the first six books were much, much better than the last five books, you would also be correct. But why is that?
King often writes about quitting his old drinking and drugging habits, and we are all very happy for his new life of sobriety, but you can’t tell me that dropping those vices hasn’t affected his writing — in a bad way. As far as I’m concerned, King wrote his last really good novel , Misery, in 1987. That was the year he quit drinking and drugging.
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I read some of his books when I was younger and then I found myself getting bored with them. My favorite book from him was The Eyes of the Dragon.