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Just had to watch and watch this for a piece I’m getting together. But, too, it’s always playing in my heart:
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Scooting through eBay the other day, looking for a good cloth version of Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead—a novel I’ll never not be in love with (though my favorite film adaptation of Beowulf is Outlander, of course)—I remembered that I’ve had a few people in my inbox and around lately asking did I have any
Both excellent. First is The Last Final Girl, part of a slasher Night Worms package: Next is a Mongrels book group happening over at Goodreads:
Some slipped through this time—forgot to copy the URLs across, just closed-tab and went on to the next thing. So: blip, gone. But the thing about the internet is that there’s always more. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been into last few . . . I don’t know, ‘days’ for sure, but also ‘weeks,’ and probably
I’m not on it, so miss a lot I’m sure, have to get sent screencaps instead. This one from David Tromblay.
I got no business sharing Instagram stuff, as I don’t move around in there, but man, this is the best strip I’ve found in a while: found it on Twitter:
Have had this happen before. It’s freaky. Wasn’t on a grill but a pan. Snake came up high, and kind of struck in a blind, headless way. This would have been about 1989, though. Didn’t have a videocamera in my pocket.
This is my kind of post: All I’d add—well, not ‘all,’ but one I’d for-sure add would be that monster’d out El Camino from Little Evil: Also, I guess, no surprise that El Caminos lodge in the old memory banks, seeing as how that’s the key car in Mongrels: Also, now that I’m halfway thinking
Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and all the Apple ones are from my wife). Just, don’t want to pretend I have my thumb on all the good pulses. Rather, I know
