The Algorithm
Guess I’ve been buying too many p-books, not enough e-. My device is now trying to get me to buy my own books, and stuff I’m in.
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All over the place linkage
Which—man. I should have worded that differently. Feel like Pauly Shore, now. Anyway: Cool lists and reviews for: Night of the Mannequins Memorial Ride The Only Good Indians Mapping the Interior The Only Good Indians again More Memorial Ride Not for Nothing And, a video review that doesn’t embed nicely in bullet-point lists: And of
Couple things from birdland
Hey, a clutch of the ones you don’t see all that often, and definitely never together: Recording of this coming soon, I have to imagine:
Pieces & Bits
Haven’t had time to take a peek at this, but . . . it’s a learning exercise the NYT did, I think? Based on or around that opinion piece I did? Maybe? Somebody tell me?
Best Reads from Lately
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/22/neanderthal-mans-recreated-face-takes-internet- The Many Saints Of Newark Ending Explained: Who Made Tony Soprano? https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joro-spiders-invasive-georgia_n_615871e0e4b0487c855f6263 https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/hiker-peak-of-desperation/ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/octopus-farming-is-immoral-given-everything-we-know-about-this-highly-intelligent-and-solitary-animal-philip-lymbery-3412887 Minnetonka CEO apologizes for appropriating Native American culture : NPR https://variety.com/2021/film/columns/yes-halloween-knockoff-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1235090664/ 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/werewolf-movies-1981-howling-american-london-wolfen-full-moon-high-anniversary S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neo-Pronouns and Genre-Hopping
NYT Opinions piece
By me. Who’d have ever guessed: Somebody even snapped a pic of it when it ran in print:
The Kingman cometh
I’m always dialing up King interviews &etc—so much to learn, and he’s the dude to be learning it from—but sometimes I only got a couple minutes. This fits that pocket perfectly:
Not for Nothing: the unexpurgated text at last
Got this headset over in birdland: Paged through my Not for Nothing, then dug up my old file, and . . . yep. But? Next/soon printing of Not for Nothing will have that chapter restored. And, it’s also here: https://www.dzancbooks.org/blog/2021/9/30/not-for-nothing-chapter-nine Or, if you’re more into PDFs:
Elk, Maps, and Tin Men
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2021/09/stephen-graham-jones-only-good-indians.html