etc
Thing I Did to/on Cons (conventions, conference, fests…)
Open Letter to Cons From the Indians No Longer in the Background of a John Wayne Movie | Tor.com
Signed Books
Boulder Bookstore’s now carrying all my backstock they can get their hands on, and I’ll be swinging by now and then to scratch my name in them, and maybe yours too:
Birdlandia
This being just ridiculous stuff I stumble onto on Twitter, and kind of want to save . . . but probably not enough to actually bookmark them:
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GM announces electric Chevy Silverado pickup that can go 400 miles on a single charge – CNN Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people – CNN https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/creepy-things-kids-have-said-about-past-lives https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabianabuontempo/creepy-most-unexplainable-true-stories https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awpx/scientists-discover-huge-and-mysterious-jellyfish-shaped-structure-in-space https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php https://www.daily-stuff.com/the-funniest-headstones-you-will-ever-see/ Reindeer bone rewrites Irish human history | Ireland | The Sunday Times https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/writing-prompts-from-a-teacher-trying-to-get-her-class-to-reveal-where-they-hid-her-keys http://southwestreview.com/volume-105-number-3/them-a-pitch/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/neanderthals-werent-just-smart-they-might-have-taught-humans-a-thing-or-two/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/rick-santorum-native-americans-comments-outrage-cnn National Parks Should
Some new headshots
I mean, not HEADSHOTS — I’m not a zombie. Nor am I model, or an actor. So, really? These are just some SNAPSHOTS. Because I hadn’t had any author-photo-type things done in a while. And, not-professional (with COVID, it’s hard to schedule . . . ), just black-and-whited in Mac’s Preview, but maybe usable? For
Herzog
Thought maybe six or seven weirdos like me would get a chuckle from this. Turns out, there’s a whole lot of weirdos out there—I’m less alone than I thought: And, didn’t think to cite the article, but John Vaillant searched it up — I really should have linked it, as this isn’t my joke, but
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-29/larry-mcmurtry-early-work-obliterated-western-cliches ‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Trollhunter,’ and the Birth of Found Footage Monster Movies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-surviving-wood-sculpture-even-older-previously-thought-180977320/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-school-shooting-that-austin-forgot/ https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/star-wars-george-lucas-marcia-editor-wife-15991031.php https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Broke-in-the-D-League-Why-my-NBA-dress-code-16064235.php https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/sf-movie-theater-reopening-godzilla-amc-16070767.php https://rifnote.com/2021/04/03/crystals-found-in-kalahari-desert-challenge-assumptions-about-where-in-africa-human-culture-arose/ https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/bbc-three-comedy-horror-series-wrecked-1234940633/
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Is It Time to Kill the Book Blurb? – WSJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-nfts-insight-idUSKCN2AT1HG http://kendallreviews.com/feature-brian-asman-offers-a-wonderful-response-to-the-question-why-do-you-write-horror/ https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php https://www.slashfilm.com/come-closer-movie/ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-cave-in-germany-is-one-possible-center-for-early-wolf-domestication https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neandertals-probably-perceived-speech-quite-well/ http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/neanderthal-speech-09405.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/19/magazine/how-college-dropout-new-hampshire-found-shakespeare-secret-all-phds-missed/ https://apple.news/AzidpSJwzRoGqeNqbwYKGzw https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-20/neanderthals-how-close-are-we-to-our-extinct-relatives.html?outputType=amp https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Neanderthals-possibly-responsible-for-their-own-extinction.htm https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/world/oumuamua-interstellar-object-scn-trnd/index.html
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-vaccines-raise-hope-cold-reality-dawns-covid-19-is-likely-here-to-stay-11612693803 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/12/966470891/minibrains-with-a-neanderthal-gene-offer-hints-about-human-evolution https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21076981/isabel-fall-clarkesworld-attack-helicopter-short-story-gender-art-controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/ken-burns-our-monuments-are-representations-myth-not-fact/?arc404=true https://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2018/06/mary-when-you-follow-her https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-11/hollywood-book-boom-walter-mosley-charles-yu-other-novelists-on-writing-tv https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/humans-didnt-outsmart-neanderthals-just-outlasted-them.htm One Long WTF: A Celebration of Prince, Music’s Most Electrifying, Least Understood Star Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it | Science | AAAS Teeth reveal tantalizing details about a Neanderthal who fell down a well – CNN https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/venetian-blue-beads-found-in-alaska-predate-arrival-of-columbus https://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/rrm-lansdale.html?fbclid=IwAR0vkhlDlohNd40iQVlDKAmyDijEo769XnLpsSYVjbFK_m92VluBy4_wiVs https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/19/texas-power-outage-winter-storm-deaths/ https://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com/2021/02/has-britain-recognised-its-old-and.html?m=1 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/interior-design-tips-from-a-straight-single-man https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/juno-jupiter-image-february-2021 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/dr-lecter-my-name-is-clarice-starling
NYT Best-Seller!
Who’d have thought an elk book, a horror novel, a story set on the Blackfeet Rez, a revenge tale out of Montana could, after six months, make it to #12 on the NYT best-seller list? So amazing. Or, really, who’d have thought a kid who grew up out in the pastures of West Texas would