Scatman and The Sno-Cat®

Celebrating a Deathday™: Dick “Scatman” Hallorann, clairvoyant chef of the doomed Overlook Hotel died on this day, November 18, 1986. A native of Terre Haute, Indiana — home of the Columbia House® mail-order music club, whose members receive 8 vinyl records for the price of 1 penny, and an additional 3 records FREE upon purchase of just 1 album at list price ($89.99) — Hallorann and young Danny, the caretaker’s son, shared a telepathic gift, what Hallorann’s grandmammy called a “shining.” He warned Danny to stay out of Room 237, but Danny didn’t listen and all bloody hell broke loose — a tidal wave of blood, that is, cascading through the elevators doors in slow motion whilst Danny furiously peddled his Big Wheel® trike down the hall to safety, chanting "REᗡЯUM! REᗡЯUM!" and navigating 'round the dead Grady twins like traffic cones! What a sight, or rather, fright! Fortunately for Danny and scaredy cat mum Shelley Duvall, a “shining” premonition brought the vacationing Hallorann back to the Overlook, up the snow-covered mountain on a giantine Sno-Cat® to save the day. Alas, poor Scatman took an axe to the stumoch from crazed, writers-blocked Randall Patrick McMurphy, who would meet a brutal demise of his own, freezing to death in the hotel hedge maze, whilst Danny and Shelley drove off in the Sno-Cat, because anyone can operate one of those things. Good show! Happy Anni-hearse-ary™ to Dick “Scatman” Hallorann, who checked into the other, otherworldly Overlook Hotel — the one in the sky — on this day at age 76.