SLC / Utah Humanities
Great time. But, first? My executive hotel room at Grand America has a DOORBELL: Then/Saturday, it was the event (for which they brought in Chipotle, which of course was and is the dream): And then . . . Fear Factory with Friends! And Phillip Fracassi snagged a photo that showed my true teeth, oops:
Best Reads from Lately
https://matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-the-shape The Story Behind the Photo of Anne Murray and the Hollywood Vampires Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another,’ Hollywood, and Playing an Atypical Hero in Conversation With Paul Thomas Anderson https://theconversation.com/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct-265988 Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing
Talking BHH on IG
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Best Reads from Lately
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-books-copyright https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/tooth-in-eye-surgery-restores-vision-rcna230395 ‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds | Wildlife | The Guardian https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/me-and-bobby-mcgee-janis-joplin-kris-kristofferson-lyrics.html Victor LaValle On Mental Illness, Monsters, Survival : NPR https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/hiv-treatment-shots-lenacapavir.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aggressive squirrel attacks send San Francisco Bay Area residents to ER | AP News Poking around the excellent cauldron of new horror lit Scientists
Telluride Horror Show, 2025 edition
Couldn’t have been a better time. And, it started on Thursday, really: en route to Telluride with my wife Nancy (the luxury of driving, since I’m in Colorado . . . ), we swung by Paonia Books so I could do an event with Paolo Bacigalupi: Then it was crash-landing at the Horror Summit with
Cinemuck lives!
Some of y’all may remember way, WAY back when, when I was thinking I was meant to write movie reviews. Welp . . . that never happened. But, there’s artifacts! Thanks to Clockpunk Studios, who dug these all up from a database and got them displaying. Back when this site was Cinemuck.com, I think I
NYT Book Club!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/books/review/buffalo-hunter-hunter-stephen-graham-jones-book-club.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
National Book Festival part 2
When the original post isn’t even called “Part 1″—didn’t know more was coming in. But, sure enough, here’s a recording of the full panel: (maybe this is part of the above one? no time to check . . .)