Best of 2019 so far: the January post
( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )
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Best of 2019
Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and
Best Reads from Lately
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the
A Week in the Life
what this is: last week, maybe the week before, I don’t know, I had a lot to write, so figured to keep myself somewhat on-task by making myself log down what-all was going on. this is that—closing down files, found it off to the side. just added the images and stuff. and, to be sure,
Metafictional Horror
Not talking this old book: But this cool B&N list, that I’m superproud to have a book on:
Best Reads from Lately
“How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“ “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“ “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“ “skeleton of glass and marmelade“ “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“ “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“ “In Which Colson Whitehead is Highly
Hungry-Hungry Houses
I need to write this up formal somewhere (other than that Burnt Offerings intro), but until then, this is great:
Best Reads from Lately
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway: “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“ “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“ “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“ “Why narrating an audiobook is a
LotR, D&D style
Ridiculous: solely because of this fun thread, I suspect, this weekend while I was laid up with a three-day fever and a cough I thought would hollow me out completely, leave nothing but a husk of a dude behind, I ended up putting in the extended edition of Fellowship. Still good as ever (though, first
Best Reads from Lately
Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and all the Apple ones are from my wife). Just, don’t want to pretend I have my thumb on all the good pulses. Rather, I know
So cool to look back
The “Though it hasn’t yet posted a profit” part is maybe the best, here, though “electronic mail” and “cellular phone” are pretty fun too: Crazy, too, remembering how revolutionary this was, once upon a time. The world was changing with each word he said, yes? Too, of course, Bowie saw it all coming:
Best Articles from . . . Lately
Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately: “Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials“ “Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook“ “What
Best of 2018
Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy,