Blue butterfly land
Hey, remembered to stop this one at “10” as well. I’m getting better. Well, less losery?
Best Reads from Lately
Finally remembered to do this at “10,” instead of a bajillionty: Love Medicine Audio Guide | National Endowment for the Arts https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/stone-age-teenager-was-mauled-by-a-bear-28-000-years-ago-skeletal-analysis-confirms 3LBE Magazine – Issue 46: Songs Never Sung by Premee Mohamed The Texas AI Boom is Outpacing Water Regulations https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/czej70jyg4eo Academic Neutrality – Lightspeed Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/business/the-new-fabio-is-claude.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://slate.com/culture/2026/02/super-bowl-2026-bad-bunny-halftime-show-lady-gaga-liam-ricky-martin-trump.html After a Fire Ravaged an Iconic
Appreciate the Effort
(I don't know how to feel after the library committee meeting tonight. Part of me is appreciative that I did not get any significant resistance on most of my titles, including Disability Intimacy and Year of the Tiger. But I am still crushed that I lost on this one, and mad that it came to
People and Libby and Good Stab
Honored to be in that cool category with Silvia Moreno-Garcia: https://people.com/2026-libby-book-awards-finalists-full-list-exclusive-11898327
Recent Interviews and the Like
Okay, I should probably say “Recent,” meaning “not exactly recent,” as these go back a little farther than usual. First is the Etch documentary episode—I got to be the pilot for the excellent and amazing First Word on Horror series! (which was probably just a “his footage randomly got through post first,” nothing special about
The Best Kind of Clubbing . . .
. . . is BOOK CLUBBING! Well, so says a book dude, who doesn’t really go to club-clubs.
Finalist times two, and this:
And, in addition to BHH having somehow made it to the final ballot for a Splatterpunk Award—a ceremony I’ve been to—it’s also now up for an Audie:
American Indians, American Horror
Horror, no matter the sub-genre, is always about survival. Of the body, the mind. The heart, the soul. The status quo. The future. While horror isn’t the sole province of American Indians—horror’s for everyone—it does track that the many sovereign nations here in North America that survived an attempted genocide, a violent displacement, and a
Best Reads from Lately
The world’s oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia | National Geographic Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE Welcome to the Camping Games (now please show up) | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years :
Domain Name
Been “demontheory.net” since some readers somehow bought that for me back in 2005, I think it was? They ran this site for a year or two, then I took over, been messing it up ever since. But, after all this time, “stephengrahamjones.com,” which has been resolving TO “demontheory.net,” is finally the URL that sticks around.
Comics
& comic-booking, and the rascally comic-bookers who comic-book Anyway, went to add this one/below to my comic books page, and saw that I never got around to building it up. So, it’s built up now. Right up to the left, here (in the current iteration of the site): hot topics>talking about>comic books.
New Flash Story Up
It would be in the new & improved States of Grace, but . . . didn’t write it in time:
411, Finally
How had I not read all these before? So amazing. I couldn’t stop. Wanted more. I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell : r/nosleep I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 2!) : r/nosleep
Best Reads from Lately
(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping
Blue Butterfly Land
(let these stack up whilst we were getting the new site ready, so . . . feels like a double triple dose . . . )
New site
All the times I’ve said that before, it’s just been a new theme. Which . . . yeah, okay, sure, this is a new theme as well. But? So much has changed and’s still changing behind the scenes, not the least of which is that there’s someone way more capable than me getting things working.
Goodbye to a Column
for the moment. and, I suspect I’ve done a post like this already. but? I never saw this (below). just stumbled on it when looking up the title for one of these:
IG and Me
Or, if it’s a better (see: “worse”) pun . . . “InstaGraham?” Anyway, my account there’s going to be solely publisher-run, now. Which doesn’t really mean I’ve ever been running it. I did learn how to do one thing on it, but I can never remember to check in there, so will just keep out
Best of the Year, 2025
Here’s hoping I kept good enough notes for this to be representative, not a victim of recency bias or all the other biases I’m sure I’m prone to. Though, the one about “it’s pretty boring if there’s no blood” is a pretty good and proper bias, I have to think, and one I can’t apologize
New site coming
Hopefully within the first couple weeks of 2026? Current version’s developed some slowdowns, so, working with someone who actually knows what’s going on under the hood. So, should be cleaner and faster soon, here. After I move to California . . .