Best Reads from Lately
ten or so articles, reviews, columns and the like I thought worth saving—well, that I enjoyed enough to pass along.
etc
FSU PhD
Scrolling through my camera roll looking for a cool mouse I saw on a rack somewhere (the clicky kind, not the “eats all my cheese”-kind [related: I have no cheese]), having to get past all the UK shots, which I plan on doing a post about before too long, and . . . found this,
Blue Butterfly Land
posting this from, as Dire Straits calls it, “London town”: Was thinking about doing some animal-specific version of these posts, so kept these a bit separate. Probably won’t, though. But . . . I might keep a little sub-section here sometimes?
How to know you’re living right
Friends at cons give you the actual knife FROM this: from there to my hotel room: And . . . probably going to have to check my bag to get home, now. Also, keeping this friend close to the vest, as he probably doesn’t want to be the Connection . . .
Best Reads from Lately
best ten things (well, articles, columns, that-type thing) lately, from all over
Fango’s Top 100 Horror Films
If only I had room, ANYWHERE, for this excellent poster (someone just gave me an 8 x 11 thing I’m putting in a frame, and cannot find even enough wall space for that). And? Looks like Martyrs is the only one I haven’t seen, here. It’s not that I don’t like grueling. I mean, okay,
From the Camera Roll
Couple months back, my back went out, I decided I did not prefer my back going out—weird, I know—so . . . figured why not do a plank or two? Starting out, thirty seconds was a push. But, now, things are getting better. Or, worse? That last minute’s never easy. Not sure I want to
Blue Butterfly Land
just some skeets (“posts,” what? maybe I’m not current) from BlueSky I thought hilarious, or true, or both (related: I’m definitely not current).
Best of April 2026
ROTE EP by The Sulac System (read a lot of books as well, but they don’t even have covers yet, I don’t think. and, have been rereading the whole Sin City series, too)
Blue Butterfly Land
few things I thought sort of funny and save-able, from BlueSky, the only place I am—except for here. And, you know: life, the world. “Colorado,” I guess, sometimes. Less often than I want, really.
Whole Shelf’ing It
I always think it’s the coolest, walking by an airport bookstore and seeing my books there. But having nearly a WHOLE SHELF at B&N is pretty great, too. And, they said that before they put that shelf-talker up and sold through their Chainsaws this weekend, it was the whole shelf. Anyway: “Oh, the places you’ll
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: