On blacklights

I can't remember the first time I saw my first blacklights, but they soon became a widely seen experience in my youth. Every nightclub had to have them, of course. They were part of the strobe light show experience. When they didn't have spotlights going all over you in red, blue, green, yellow, and purple, it'd be a blacklight making everyone in white t-shirts or white slacks standing out and glow in the dark. And of course I had psychedelic posters hanging up in my bedroom which you could only appreciate by turning out the regular lights and turning on a blacklight. Some people, so I've heard, liked that effect when they alter their consciousness. The effect on your eyes can be trippy.

On which bookshelf speakers

I'm close to finishing Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. I read it many years ago, and remembered the basic ideas of a bunch of kids (similar to Stephen King's It), but didn't remember the title. And this time I didn't remember it was the same book until I came to once specific incident, which doesn't even fit into the plot. Overall, I like it better now. Did it get better or did my standards go down? I'm not sure. I still think It is by far the better book (although still flawed), and I'm not likely to change that opinion. Still, a recent incident where they drew out and destroyed the Rendering Truck and killed the man driving it, was good. You can put it on your bookshelf next to which bookshelf speakers, and I'll no doubt read the sequel, Winter of Darkness. which takes place 20 years later.