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Honored to be in this stack:
Gemini
Very cool to be part of this line-up over at LitReactor by Sadie Hartmann: And, any mention of “Gemini” of course gets this song in my head:
Best Reads from Lately
some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/23/indian-country-set-for-historic-showdown.asp?fbclid=IwAR22KYb_gVA7rV-ULC_2fP3cZmJvpJPlYv2cD3_2nJ9REjeFmPtLJLfjE60 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/09/outsider-stephen-king-adaptations/ https://theoutline.com/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emails-from-my-childrens-school-before-8-00-am-during-the-covid-19-crisis https://bookriot.com/2020/02/27/dark-academia-books/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262295/Pentagon-declassifies-officially-releases-three-UFO-videos.html https://www.businessinsider.in/science/research/news/ancient-tools-found-in-india-suggest-the-toba-supervolcano-eruption-didnt-leave-humanity-on-the-brink-of-extinction/articleshow/74313715.cms Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles | Literary Hub https://theconversation.com/fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-extinct-hobbit-from-flores-island-124747 Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made
Men’s Journal
Hey, 1 of 3. That might even be cooler than 7 of 9? (this, of course, can’t be true, as nothing is cooler than Seven):
Cemetery Dance Gets Elky
Y’know, I should have had a character in this novel walk into a room, take a kind of sense-reading, then the camera zooms in close to their face for a Samuel Jackson moment, so they can say, “It’s feeling kind of elky in here . . .” Anyway, rocking-cool excellent amazing write-up from Sadie Hartmann:
What’s the World Like After Corona?
This has been kind of a default question I keep getting asked lately, which makes perfect sense: it’s the question on ALL our minds. And, my default answer’s pretty much that I don’t know. But I can guess. Except—quick qualifier—my guesses have nothing to do with economic recovery or collapse, second waves, foreign travel, whether
#SummerScares
Video-thing. Could there be cooler art? Under this video, the link to the HWA playlist. And here‘s the landing page.
Locus, Paula Guran, and an Elk Walk into a Bar . . .
and this amazing-cool over-the-top unexpected review is the result:
Zooming to the Rescue
Not just Zoom, either. Over the past few weeks, I bet I’ve done just about every platform, program, site, service, from Bluejeans to WebEX, Crowdcast to Streamyard. But, the same way Skype USED to be the default-term for your Jetson-y video call, so, now, “Zoom” seems to be. The fact that it’s a real and
Crowdcasted
I’m thinking this’ll show up on YouTube or somewhere before too long. Will slip a link in here (actually, RIGHT here) when/if there’s a link to slip. Until then, some screenshots from during:
Dark Star
Not the CSNY song, not the Dan O’Bannon movie, but the bookstore, the . . . the GROUP READING, with: And, Dark Star’s logo explains why, when you click that link above, there’s a cat pic at the top of it . . .
The Hobbit
Really? I think this is the second The Hobbit round-robin read along even I’ve been part of. But the first was nearly twenty years ago, now, and I kind of doubt anyone was recording (it was a marathon, too, so it went and went and went). Anyway, I’m not on facebook, so don’t know anything
Dame’s Dagger
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young,
Best Reads from Lately
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…): https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-mega-tunnels-dug-by-south-american-megafauna http://www.montanakaimin.com/opinion/dating-as-a-native-it-s-more-complicated-than-sovereignty/article_8081c614-4cf4-11ea-8e6c-87bf991b1606.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699 http://jaws1975.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-knife-edge.html Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It? https://geekycamel.com/savage-yearbook-quotes-that-prove-seniors-have-no-limits/ ‘Broken promises’: Tribes decry leak