The Overlook Hotel

​As much as the consensus seems to be that millenials are weak and coddled (an opinion I don't happen to share, because who can control the relative richness or tidal shallows of the culture that happens to rise around their ankles during the inward-hormonal madness of their formative years?), I do think that no young person of today went through the particular trial of fire that I endured, namely at the age of eleven being dragged by my aunt and much older cousins to a late-night showing of "The Shining" in a creepy theatre in upstate New York. Clearly, I still haven't recovered. Buying a threadbare copy of "Remain In Light" a few years and many therapy sessions later may have been more an unconscious imperative than mere coincidence.
And yes, it probably helps to be Gen X to understand this joke.