etc
Blurb land
I always make these posts (example: the last one) with the idea that I can just link people to them when a request comes in. But? So far, I’ve yet to do that even once, I think. I remember years back, I wrote someone for a blurb, and they sent me this response—not canned—detailing what-all
Stephen King interview/talk
My Washington Post review of Later is right up front in the intro, too. But, more important: very cool words from the Kingman, as ever:
Max Booth’s 100th Episode
In Friends terms, “The One Where He Dies.” I think I’m on at . . . 36 minutes, maybe? So many people just kill it, though — got some real skill at the mic:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9572542/lin-manuel-miranda-in-the-heights-movie-interview/ http://thecoachellareview.com/2021/01/19/interview-a-conversation-with-the-ladies-of-the-fright https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-so-many-sexual-predators-at-indian-residential-schools-escaped-punishment https://www.wsj.com/articles/colorado-lets-cities-set-their-own-gun-laws-and-boulder-plans-to-move-quickly-11624121655 How Christopher Landon Is Reinventing The Slasher Movie – Fangoria https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/what-is-going-on-at-yale-law-school https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17476615?fbclid=IwAR1E1dTcepA2vRwHgBKzYjf7IqqBYoQ1gaokGWtEYaauUZHCcyAkImNALCI https://apnews.com/article/canada-67da8a8af88efc91e6ffc64630796ec9 Puzzling skull discovery may point to previously unknown human ancestor ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-06-18/f9-fast-and-furious-justin-lin-vin-diesel https://www.newscientist.com/article/2282141-newly-identified-ancestor-of-neanderthals-complicates-the-human-story/amp/
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https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/blog/2021/5/10/mondays-are-for-meat https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/plots-of-nineteen-eighties-movies-if-their-protagonists-had-been-people-of-color? https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-restore-tribal-homelands-empower-tribal-governments?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.j99aVdSc9J0mr_qnnXtFrzw.rjEmfyN2NVEeTturveXAKRg.lOA4YBVrIrUyAoLPdUjY2nQ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/22/john-steinbecks-estate-urged-to-let-the-world-read-his-shunned-werewolf-novel https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/they-came-they-sawed/ https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/black-cowboys.htm https://www.gq.com/story/johnny-knoxvilles-last-rodeo https://thedaddest.com/trending/turn-texts-fb/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01429-6
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