Remember that Family Guy-Stephen King-Lamp joke?

[HBox]

<p><img width="500" height="500" border="0" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743555619.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V53966192_.jpg" /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743555619/sr=8-1/qid=1149219795/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7549196-7295843?%5Fencoding=UTF8" target="_blank">Yeah, that's real.&nbsp;</a></p>

[FezPaul]

<strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">Okay, but what's the lamp joke?</font></strong>

[HBox]

<p>Stephen King is meeting with a book company executive tlaking about his next book idea, King looks around the room, picks up a lamp and says his next book will be about a possessed lamp. The executive says&quot;You aren't trying anymore, are you?&quot; He says, &quot;No, I'm not.&quot; Executive says, &quot;OK, when can I have it by.&quot;</p><p>It's even funnier when I explain it!&nbsp;</p>

[dereckfishboy]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>FezPaul</strong> wrote:<br /><strong><font size="2" face="courier new,courier,monospace">Okay, but what's the lamp joke?</font></strong><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The joke can't really be explained with the humor intact. You kind of have to see it for yourself. </p><p>It's funny, and dead on too.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I've been saying for several years that King's work as an author is on the whole overrated. Not that I blame the guy. If someone paid me millions of dollars on a frequent basis with the understanding that I wouldn't have to be a quality product, I'd probably phone it in too. But as someone who loves horror fiction more than any other form of entertainment, I can't jump on the King bandwagon with everyone else for the past twenty years. The guy wrote some genius stories a long time ago. But all he is, in my opinion, is a good author who writes a lot of bad novels.<br /></p>

[tele7]

That reminds me of the time I went water skiing in the Congo with Gary Coleman.

[narc]

Sad thing is that Ron McLarty is, besides being an actor (I think he was on Sex in the City, among other things) a pretty gifted novelist himself, and I would say above the shlock King churns out now. He did a book called "The Memory of Running" that is just fantastic and I highly recommend. And, I'm sure the reason he was picked to do the reading is because the book involves a fat slob who travels across the country on a bike. Cute little literary in joke.