Reading Glasses
This happened yesterday. Those of you on Instagram, maybe it’s . . . archived? That an insta-thing?
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Cargill’s Horror list
Hundred percent agree with all of these. When I teach my horror courses, all of these bulletpoints (and a few more) are where we land:
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
Unrevised
Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it: —SGJ The biggest lie I
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/decision-on-friday-the-13th-court-case-expected-in-may-or-june https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51532781 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/03/802215344/researchers-link-autism-to-a-system-that-insulates-brain-wiring https://gizmodo.com/apple-bans-bad-guys-from-using-iphones-in-movies-says-1841929887 https://apple.news/AAI0aeXtyQI2XTQZ4MPC7Zw https://theconversation.com/humans-domesticated-horses-new-tech-could-help-archaeologists-figure-out-where-and-when-131831 https://www.livescience.com/earth-shorter-days-millions-years-ago.html https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia – CNN https://ourcommunitynow.com/local-culture/black-forest-coloradoone-of-the-worlds-most-haunted-places https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ https://www.theonion.com/study-96-percent-of-humans-would-rather-be-animatronic-1819572872 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/as-a-virus-upends-hollywood-may-never-be-a-return-normal-1286691 https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9342389/coronavirus-touring-concert-business-billboard-cover-story-2020 How Will the Coronavirus End? – The Atlantic European Neanderthals ate fresh seafood, which may have given their brains a boost – CNN https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/21-yr-old-student-from-pune-and-the-curious-case-of-her-changing-hands-6301734/ America Is Looking
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,
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
Story Research
Just had to watch and watch this for a piece I’m getting together. But, too, it’s always playing in my heart:
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
A&P & Me
Not going to say I cut my teeth on this story, quite. What I cut my teeth on, short-fiction-wise, would be Ellen Datlow’s selections for OMNI, way back when. Those stories didn’t just sustain me, they molded me. Recently, when OMNI started all over again, I was maybe going to be in issue #2, even,
Letter to . . . second time around
That “Letter to a Just Starting-Out Indian Writer” piece I read first at . . . NALS, I think? in 2015 or so? Anyway, read it again at IAIA a year or so later, they Vimeo’d it, but then, these past few months, it had gotten behind a password wall. No longer: it’s free and
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
Noveling the Novella
Oh, man, this thing I’m writing, it’s one word away from clicking over into official novel land. And it’s almost two-thirds done, maybe, hopefully: Would jam through to the end in a few days, but I got a script-thing and a story on February deadline, and, I mean, February is coming up pretty fast .
Galaga Riser DIY / How-to
Which, before I get into it, let me say: I’m the last dude who should ever do a how-to on anything, except maybe writing a novel or a story. But maybe not even that. However, got one of those 3/4 scale 1-Up Galaga machines for Christmas, and of course love love love it. However? I’m
Blurbs
I remember not long after House of Leaves came out, with Lethem’s way cool blurb on back, that there was an article or interview somewhere, where he (Lethem) was saying his agent was making him not do blurbs for six months or a year. Just because he, being him, wanted to do them all, of
CU on the Air
Was very cool doing this interview/podcast with them. Nice working with a team, in a studio, and Ken McConnellogue is a superb host. You can listen to it here, or, looks like, just wherever you get your podcastery:
Busiek on making comics
His stuff’s always good to read. Guess this is one reason why: the attention, the do-overs, the insistence on getting it right. We should all be so conscientious, and so articulate about the process. And, I think you have to click on this (the bird-icon works, the arrow-out works) to go to Twitter to read the
The Haunting of Hill House
Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, I mean, not Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel*—though? I do kind of wonder if a whole generation will find a re-issue of The Haunting of Hill House, maybe even with a cover from this television series, and consider it this weird old-timey novelization that doesn’t have Theo being a sister, that puts
Best of 2018 so far—the October roundup
Late late late. I feel like the white rabbit. My excuse? Wrapping a big project, putting all my words there. But, c’mon, dude, this isn’t even words, this is just pictures:
Some Gospel Here
When @Benjamin_Percy is constructing a comic story, he approaches it like a math problem. pic.twitter.com/eR2Ac717x2 — SYFY (@SYFY) August 6, 2018 this ‘breakdancing in a straitjacket’ he’s talking about via Terrance Hayes is a much better way of saying what I’m always trying to say—also with dancing: give me a whole warehouse to do my
Pirates & Pirating
Man, looks like I’m just embedding tweets here all day—I did just wrap an extensive novel rewrite about five minutes ago—but, here’s another one, a good one, an important one: Dear person who decided to upload an e-ARC of THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SILK GOWN to an illegal download site more than a week
Bukowski
Thinking this goes for fiction as well: Charles Bukowski on writing poetry pic.twitter.com/ZbRQHK4lG6 — Poetry Is–@VVanGone (@PoetryIsPoetry) June 30, 2018
13 Weeks
This originally ran on Spinetingler back in 2012, when Growing Up Dead in Texas was new. Now Spinetingler’s gone gone gone, though, and somebody got hold of me, asked where was this, and . . . I’m not so sure, really. But I did dig this up from an email. It’s some version of what went up at Spinetingler lo those many years ago. From a. URL I found for it, the first part of the title, evidently, was “That Pink Light at the End of the Tunnel,” but then some URL clipper, you know, clipped it, so I don’t know how it ended. Something with PKD maybe? Hopefully?
Anyway, here’s the paste-in:
Back cover copy redux
Though, I’m not super sure that’s an exact-proper use of ‘redux.’ Anyway, if you click the pic, or the link below, you can then click a link in that cool post—it’s star librarian and horror champion Becky Spratford—and then click BACK to here. It’ll make sense once you see: http://raforall.blogspot.com/2018/06/author-stephen-graham-jones-captures.html