Nice words for Kissyface
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Teaching a Sociopath to Cry
First story of the year on the first new day of the year. Maybe someday I’ll have a story every DAY of the year. Well, cumulative anyway. Think I’m pushing three hundred published so far. Now plus one more: http://gamut.online/node/345
Best of 2017
For the first time ever, I kept a running tab of the best of every month: for January February March April May June July August September October November December It’s not everything I read/watch/listened to. Just the stuff I dug. And? I had this big idea that I’d peel back through all those, dither and
Favorite Horror Movies of 2017
Feel like I’m posting this too early, as I might get blown away by some movie X over the next five days. But I’ve got ten minutes right now, can get these down and in order, I think—with the caveat that I’ve yet to see Hounds of Love or Raw or Prevenge or Super Dark
Twofer Tuesday and beyond
Hey, the audiobook of Mongrels is in Audible’s 2-for-1 sale for the next few days, looks like: Click here for it
Couple Anthologies
Story called “Alis” in the obvious one, and a story about this demon Asmodeus in the other: And, a certain homo naledi story off mine lucked into this: https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/webs-best-science-fiction-1-2017-stories/ And, here’s a cool write-up of “Universal Horror”: https://nicklasalla.blogspot.com/2017/12/its-at-the-front-door-review-of-universal-horror-stephen-graham-jones.html
The Last Jedi
I mean, first, yeah, loved it, clapped at the end, c’mon: of course. Â Best part? All the younguns in the audience laughing and talking to the screen. New hope indeed. Second, couple of good links: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/12/18/the-last-jedi-a-mirror-slowly-cracking/ https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-list-of-some-of-the-times-the-last-jedi-told-the-olde-1821396631?
Couple of Kind Reviews, and an Article
You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Review-of-Last-Final-Girl-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones  And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/434/1144 Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: “Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart
Superstition Review
New interview up: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/interviews/stephenjones
Comic book cameo for Mongrels
Check it out: So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows
Process
This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was
Twisted Sister & Alice Cooper & Tom Savini & Bobcat Goldthwait?
I know, I know: this ever really HAPPENED? Apparently so. This isn’t some Mandela Effect thing, and we’re nowhere near April. Not sure how I never knew about this, but glad I do know. And, yeah, the song here’s maybe a little guitar-shy, but still, the video’s nothing but fun: I found it in this
The Plural of “Venus”
This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago in southwest France. Since its discovery in 1894, there has been much debate about the sex and whether he/she is
File under: Costumes I Need
This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I
The Nine Circles of (Mis-)Usage Hell
I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me, and one I’m asking for every day, pretty much. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions
Words per minute
I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off the throttle more than I should. Way back, when instant-messaging first came around? I used to write chat scripts to talk to different hardly-remote people,
Alt_Waylon
Not that industrial rock (if that’s that term) album that turned up a while back, but a different arrangement (not sure about that word either) of a song I really thought I knew. It’s like that slowed-down “Born in the USA”—you hear the song all over again for the first time. Pretty excellent. And? Back
Impressions
I forget who says it, but a while back someone was talking about how the good singers and musicians and actors, they can always do pitch-perfect impressions of their contemporaries. Maybe comedians too? Bet so. Actors, of course. Anyway, just stumbling upon this, from the year I was born. Merle, man, he so had everybody