etc
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
NON-book stuff from birdland
That I want to stash here so I can come back to it, be just as happy all over again:
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-texas-oil-boom-busts-11594440031 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatch/how-two-waves-of-coronavirus-cases-swept-through-the-texas-panhandle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/ford-bronco-is-back-after-o-j-simpson-made-it-famous https://tv.avclub.com/timothy-omundson-on-his-seinfeld-start-and-getting-back-1844335402 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: An Explainer – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://hobbylark.com/comic-books/Who-Are-The-Native-American-Heroes-of-Marvel-Comics https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/obituaries-for-the-parts-of-me-that-have-died-inside https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/world/scientists-fossil-mystery-tanystropheus-scn-trnd/index.html https://apple.news/AOOt5__SrRjafuZm4rYVYjA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-final-frontier A rare giant shark now sits in an ice block at the Smithsonian, allowing researchers to hopefully unravel clues about its evolution – CNN
1001 Sleepless Nights
on Goodreads? Anyway, I remember years back, when I first stumbled onto Goodreads, I looked up some of the books I knew, had read recently, was reading, just to see how the wind was blowing. Turns out: every which direction. Buffets, lulls— crazy tornadoes that wind up whole crowds of people and also doldrums so
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Fairly suspicious that this venue is going to shift to an ELK ELK ELK! site for the next couple weeks, meaning my list of good stuff I read will get all unwieldy once again, so, will just post what I got so far: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/mcmurray-metis-elder-tapes-1.5635250 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/court-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-to-shut-down.html https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/supreme-court-ruling-reaffirmed-sovereignty-4KQXSMEtlUW4lpBGSw6pzA
Last couple of books I’m in
And, my keyboard is my backdrop, there. This isn’t MY keyboard, but it pretty much is:
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https://apnews.com/1ecd8a37bd1e4dc68ebed3c4568fcf72 https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Christopher-Columbus-statue-torn-down-thrown-in-lake-by-protesters-571149751.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film Slice & Dice: How Post-Pandemic Horror Could Lead to the Next Golden Age of Slashers – Bloody Disgusting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html regal jumping spider – Phidippus regius C.L. Koch https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/09/this-incredibly-rare-white-grizzly-has-emerged-in-banff-why-experts-hope-you-never-see-it.html Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days – CNN Roman city of Falerii Novi mapped
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/dave-grohl-irreplaceable-thrill-rock-show/611113/ WATCH: Writing the Most Challenging Scene of Star Trek: Picard | Star Trek https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/coronavirus-harming-native-american-communities https://twitter.com/robsaucedo2500/status/1261437704744644612?s=21 (thread) Farmer Claims Skull Found in Chained Box is From a Werewolf | Mysterious Universe Here’s How Time Works Now – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency FANGORIA | Let Us In: On Horror Inclusivity https://www.livescience.com/puhahonu-largest-and-hottest-volcano-on-earth.html https://apnews.com/7fef787f1bd5652e1205bc71ed0023d1 https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/epgebm/ergot-fungus-psychedelic-lsd-witchcraft ‘Apparently Useless’: The
Unstuck
Been stuck so many times, but never once thought of this. Pretty cool. Got to have rims you can pass a cargo strap through. And a board. But you can usually dig that kind of stuff up from the bed, behind the seat, some old broke down house you walk to:
Coode Street in the Afternoon
Or, well, for me it was 11:45pm, taking my dog for a walk. It’s my editor Joe Monti. Excellent stuff:
What’s the World Like After Corona?
This has been kind of a default question I keep getting asked lately, which makes perfect sense: it’s the question on ALL our minds. And, my default answer’s pretty much that I don’t know. But I can guess. Except—quick qualifier—my guesses have nothing to do with economic recovery or collapse, second waves, foreign travel, whether
Zooming to the Rescue
Not just Zoom, either. Over the past few weeks, I bet I’ve done just about every platform, program, site, service, from Bluejeans to WebEX, Crowdcast to Streamyard. But, the same way Skype USED to be the default-term for your Jetson-y video call, so, now, “Zoom” seems to be. The fact that it’s a real and
The Hobbit
Really? I think this is the second The Hobbit round-robin read along even I’ve been part of. But the first was nearly twenty years ago, now, and I kind of doubt anyone was recording (it was a marathon, too, so it went and went and went). Anyway, I’m not on facebook, so don’t know anything