FSU PhD
Scrolling through my camera roll looking for a cool mouse I saw on a rack somewhere (the clicky kind, not the “eats all my cheese”-kind [related: I have no cheese]), having to get past all the UK shots, which I plan on doing a post about before too long, and . . . found this,
Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind
Anybody remember Taken (2002), that limited series Spielberg produced? Or was associated with somehow, it’s all kind of blurry now. Really cool and quite terrifying show, anyway. Reason I’m thinking of it’s that, in Disclosure Day, the aliens visit people by taking on the form of animals—really sort of nerve-wracking animals at that: the fox*
Blue Butterfly Land
posting this from, as Dire Straits calls it, “London town”: Was thinking about doing some animal-specific version of these posts, so kept these a bit separate. Probably won’t, though. But . . . I might keep a little sub-section here sometimes?
Two Trophies, One Amazing Night
Stayed up all night in Edinburgh, Scotland to watch these two ceremonies. So, so honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award. Did some light searching on a train, and it looks like maybe only one other novel’s ever won both? Cool. As for
Locus Award for Good Stab!
Maggie and Sara kill it as MCs, there’s so many good acceptance speeches, cool keynotes, and Connie Willis is, as always, hilarious: Here’s the trophy: Such an unexpected honor.
How to know you’re living right
Friends at cons give you the actual knife FROM this: from there to my hotel room: And . . . probably going to have to check my bag to get home, now. Also, keeping this friend close to the vest, as he probably doesn’t want to be the Connection . . .
Best Reads from Lately
best ten things (well, articles, columns, that-type thing) lately, from all over
Fango’s Top 100 Horror Films
If only I had room, ANYWHERE, for this excellent poster (someone just gave me an 8 x 11 thing I’m putting in a frame, and cannot find even enough wall space for that). And? Looks like Martyrs is the only one I haven’t seen, here. It’s not that I don’t like grueling. I mean, okay,
From the Camera Roll
Couple months back, my back went out, I decided I did not prefer my back going out—weird, I know—so . . . figured why not do a plank or two? Starting out, thirty seconds was a push. But, now, things are getting better. Or, worse? That last minute’s never easy. Not sure I want to
Blue Butterfly Land
just some skeets (“posts,” what? maybe I’m not current) from BlueSky I thought hilarious, or true, or both (related: I’m definitely not current).
Best Reads from Lately
Stuff I dug. Probably leaning more science than not? But the mystery about jacket buttons is in here as well. I’ve never understood that, until now.
Reading the West
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is nominated for Best Fiction at the @readingthewest Book Awards! Voting is open now through May 31st. Cast your vote for Good Stab at readingthewest.com.
Best of April 2026
ROTE EP by The Sulac System (read a lot of books as well, but they don’t even have covers yet, I don’t think. and, have been rereading the whole Sin City series, too)
Blue Butterfly Land
few things I thought sort of funny and save-able, from BlueSky, the only place I am—except for here. And, you know: life, the world. “Colorado,” I guess, sometimes. Less often than I want, really.
Two Weeks of Scripting
Well, two weeks cut by three or four days of driving and a couple book events, but: done with the first draft of the scripts for the comic project I can’t yet talk about, as it’s being announced [also redacted . . .]. Five issues, though. About two-hundred pages? But, am doing a new thing—well,
Albums
Got to thinking what are the main ones for me, these past fifty-four years. It’s these twelve:
Newnan, GA
My last event there was last night. Good time. Read a new story. Well, read a few new stories, actually. Can’t seem to stop writing new stories.