Birdlandia
both etc & books:
Thing I Did to/on Cons (conventions, conference, fests…)
Open Letter to Cons From the Indians No Longer in the Background of a John Wayne Movie | Tor.com
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50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know – Uncanny Magazine Carpenter, Jennifer (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) The unique problems facing Native American youths in the criminal justice system. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/05/archaeologists-uncover-oldest-human-burial-in-africa https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995214254/an-extraordinary-discovery-archeologists-find-neanderthal-remains-in-cave-near-r http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring21/page39.html Humans Are the Scariest Predator – The Atlantic https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/when-will-klay-thompson-return-injury-we-analyze-impact-golden-state-warriors-star-s-absence-team https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/26/frightening-history-halloween-haunted-houses/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-studies-and-the-possibility-of-alien-origin/ https://www.alanbaxteronline.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-manure-to-grow-a-few-good-roses/ https://time.com/6047779/colson-whitehead-margaret-atwood/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/george-saunderss-humor https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-02/texas-horned-lizard-animal-conservation-oklahoma https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/fossil-find-california-ebmud-mastodon-bones-16192070.php https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/20/william-shatner-interview-love-loss-and-leonard-nimoy
Memorial Ride Sampler
Check it: cool little flip book PDF for Memorial Ride (also here). Coming at you live from UNM in the land of October: [3d-flip-book mode=”fullscreen” id=”17483″][/3d-flip-book]
Signed Books
Boulder Bookstore’s now carrying all my backstock they can get their hands on, and I’ll be swinging by now and then to scratch my name in them, and maybe yours too:
Birdlandia
This being just ridiculous stuff I stumble onto on Twitter, and kind of want to save . . . but probably not enough to actually bookmark them:
/End new construction zone
Which is to say: all those Pages I had to turn into Posts, that automatically feed into this space (four of them, I think), this should be the end of that. Unless, of course, I find some more that the new theme doesn’t play nice with. And, hopefully-hopefully I adjusted all the sluglines/URLs such that
Brief mess-up
I hope? Just noticing that, since I updated themes, some of the bookpages are formatting oddly (Chainsaw, Mannequins, Memorial Ride, “Wait for Night”—all the recent stuff). Can’t figure why . . . yet. I think it might have to do with them being Pages instead of Posts (here in WordPress). Will investigate when I have
Bloody Disgusting on My Heart is a Chainsaw!
Which is to say, Meagan Navarro reviewing it. And she knows her horror. So honored to have been read by her: She also mentions it on their podcast, right about . . . here:
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GM announces electric Chevy Silverado pickup that can go 400 miles on a single charge – CNN Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people – CNN https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/creepy-things-kids-have-said-about-past-lives https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabianabuontempo/creepy-most-unexplainable-true-stories https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awpx/scientists-discover-huge-and-mysterious-jellyfish-shaped-structure-in-space https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php https://www.daily-stuff.com/the-funniest-headstones-you-will-ever-see/ Reindeer bone rewrites Irish human history | Ireland | The Sunday Times https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/writing-prompts-from-a-teacher-trying-to-get-her-class-to-reveal-where-they-hid-her-keys http://southwestreview.com/volume-105-number-3/them-a-pitch/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/neanderthals-werent-just-smart-they-might-have-taught-humans-a-thing-or-two/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/rick-santorum-native-americans-comments-outrage-cnn National Parks Should
Some new headshots
I mean, not HEADSHOTS — I’m not a zombie. Nor am I model, or an actor. So, really? These are just some SNAPSHOTS. Because I hadn’t had any author-photo-type things done in a while. And, not-professional (with COVID, it’s hard to schedule . . . ), just black-and-whited in Mac’s Preview, but maybe usable? For
Herzog
Thought maybe six or seven weirdos like me would get a chuckle from this. Turns out, there’s a whole lot of weirdos out there—I’m less alone than I thought: And, didn’t think to cite the article, but John Vaillant searched it up — I really should have linked it, as this isn’t my joke, but
This is Horror Awards final ballot!
Amazingcoolsuperhonor—vote now, vote often (but only after changing hats):
Independent Bookstore Day 2021
Here I am hanging with Boulder Bookstore and Pam Houston, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine: