Best Reads from Lately
some few articles &etc that I thought worthy of saving, and passing on
etc
Blue Butterfly Land
(probably never said: I always scroll back through these to make sure they’re as, you know, necessary as I may have thought they were while standing in some boarding line. so, all of these? so necessary)
Back from Stanford
Was a great time. Had never spent any real time in the Bay Area. Guess this is the . . . the third time I’ve gone somewhere else for a semester, to teach? University of Utah, University of Montana, and, now, Stanford. Who knows if I ever do it again, but this time, doing a
Blue light special
(probably not the first, or even fifth tie I’ve used some version of that for a post title)
Dogland
Y’all remember back when every third dog was named “Curtis Lowe?” I guess I don’t either—think it was forty-five, fifty years ago. And it was probably every 700th dog. But still, it was a thing, and it must have been cool. And? Maybe this is how it started:
Best Reads from Lately
Ten things I read (from . . . 500?) from lately that I think worth sharing. Doesn’t mean they’re good or even tolerable. But, chances are I saw something to them.
Blue butterfly land
Hey, remembered to stop this one at “10” as well. I’m getting better. Well, less losery?
The Best Kind of Clubbing . . .
. . . is BOOK CLUBBING! Well, so says a book dude, who doesn’t really go to club-clubs.
Best Reads from Lately
The world’s oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia | National Geographic Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE Welcome to the Camping Games (now please show up) | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years :
411, Finally
How had I not read all these before? So amazing. I couldn’t stop. Wanted more. I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell : r/nosleep I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 2!) : r/nosleep
Best Reads from Lately
(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping
Blue Butterfly Land
(let these stack up whilst we were getting the new site ready, so . . . feels like a double triple dose . . . )
Hadn’t thought of it like this
I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity
Time’s 100 Books, and much more:
Cool list for a vampire novel to be on: And, while I’m at it, here’s just a whole stack of BHH lists and reviews (which I hope to put on the BHH page soon, here): The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones – love the title and liked the book – Trending Books https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-by-stephen.html
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html