etc

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, news, paleo

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

Signed Books

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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

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This being just ridiculous stuff I stumble onto on Twitter, and kind of want to save . . . but probably not enough to actually bookmark them:

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, music, news, paleo

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

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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

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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

Best Reads from Lately

/ bookish, etc, movies/tv, paleo

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/

Birdlandia

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Best couple things I’ve stumbled on lately:

Best Reads from Lately

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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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