Author Photos
I can vouch for this:
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Last couple of books I’m in
And, my keyboard is my backdrop, there. This isn’t MY keyboard, but it pretty much is:
Best Reads from Lately
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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
Dame’s Dagger
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young,
Favorite stuff from birdland lately
no rhyme, less reason — wouldn’t be social media if there were, right?
STNG & Cheers
Caught this at this tweet, but am putting the image here in case something happens to that tweet—I don’t want to lose this one. Great happiness is contained within:
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Stay Where You Are, Stay Where You Are
My first ever PSA: Not unrelated: I WAS headed there to do some stuff, see some people, but, now: staying home.