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Best Reads from Lately

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https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp?fbclid=IwAR0iPkYtf-_KIs4ScZbwHai2C9I2_dEV_YyjSICHx3665vphHzYkNFZU0zA Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Live Science https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68739586 https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/03/28/guy-gun-and-dangerous-blonde-and-why-we-them The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Is Now Banished From 10 Percent of Her Own State For the first time in one billion years, two […]

Best reads from lately

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Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines

Best Reads from Lately

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(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong) A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana-203999301848 (hard to call this “best,” yeah. but: good to read/know) Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/world/vittrup-man-bog-body-denmark-scn?cid=ios_app https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

When in Spain, 2023 version

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Was there in November—Madrid first, then Barcelona, right up until Turkey Day here in the States—but started that vampire novel right after, so: am only just now posting the media from that week and a half there. Not sure where all the photos &etc ended up, but, here’s what I find, scraping Twitter: http://capsulaslj.blogspot.com/2023/11/mi-corazon-es-una-motosierra.html https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-11-17/stephen-graham-jones-la-novela-de-terror-ajusta-cuentas-con-la-masacre-de-los-indios-americanos.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/science/the-doctor-s-world-ingenuity-and-a-miraculous-revival.html The Insane True Story of How Doctor Wesley Snipes Wrote His First Novel | LitReactor How ‘The X-Files’ changed pop culture and the internet as we know it | CNN https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-skeletons-shoes-jewels-rome-scn?cid=ios_app https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-rock-art-painted-by-aboriginal-people-depicts-indonesian-warships-study-suggests https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1742667620220866811?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA https://news.yahoo.com/native-tribes-getting-slice-land-110008943.html https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/06/03/filmmakers-chronicle-aftermath-blackfeet-flood-1964/1287588001/ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-january-4th-acceptance-speech https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/nyregion/human-burial-pet-cemetery.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/world/largest-ape-gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/americas/oldest-skin-fossil-scli-intl-scn/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/endangered-jaguar-spotted-in-arizona-previously-unknown-to-us/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/television/reacher-women-dad-tv.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/upper-sioux-agency-state-park-community-1862-treaty-minnesota-dnr/89-c6c71df2-d64f-4aa5-adb7-82bbe1e1277d https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/americas/indigenous-language-chana-blas-jaime.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/27/blackfeet-nation-lily-gladstone/ (https://apple.news/AiNH_lxBBSRaTAbjTPLrgTQ) First-ever sighting of a live newborn great

100%

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I know X is terrible now—”now,” yes—but every once in a while, you can still find something amazing and perfect and timeless:

Best Reads from Lately

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Why can fear be so much fun? Doctors break down the science of being scared – ABC News Did Scientists Discover a Whole New Human Lineage? Starfish bodies are really just heads, new research says | CNN How two spine-chilling TV shows are bringing Indigenous ghost stories to life | CBC News https://manorvellum.medium.com/you-cant-outrun-the-horseman-the-roots-of-the-american-slasher-f67822392473 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45682442/stokercon-2023/ Symposiums

Halloween 2023

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Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages: Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?

Best reads from lately

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https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana Enríquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian

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More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ | CNN https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/nyregion/serial-killers-gilgo-beach-rex-heuermann.html Scream the Game Review: Heart-Pounding Fun | WIRED https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-summer-bucket-list-for-teens-in-a-slasher-movie Hammer Horror Returning to Life With New Owner and New Slate of Movies – Bloody Disgusting Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists | Evolution | The Guardian Solenex will

Conan Conan Conan (the Barbarian, Cimmerian . . . )

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Usurper, Conqueror, etc — I finally got to write him! Could not be more thrilled! I’ve done non-fic on him, but never fiction. Finally, though. Here’s the cover for my story “Lord of the Mount,” coming September 26th from Titan:

Cool

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Hadn’t even thought of this:

Best Reads from Lately

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Animals, buildings, ladies: How artist Sulac found his way to a friendly surrealism – Arkansas Times How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood | GQ ‘Stay out of the water’: what lurks below California’s zombie lake? | California | The Guardian https://missoulian.com/news/state-regional/blackfeet-release-buffalo-tribal-land/article_db9fb54e-1503-11ee-9446-af1007e7d4d4.html https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html?m=1 “Orange Is the New Black”

Mannequins, Werewolves, and more: a link grab bag

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https://www.frightfulhorror.com/post/ode-to-the-horror-novella https://genrestorm.com/horror/best-underrated-horror-books/ https://the-line-up.com/desert-horror-books https://horrortree.com/epeolatry-book-review-night-of-the-mannequins-by-stephen-graham-jones/?utm_campaign=epeolatry-book-review-night-of-the-mannequins-by-stephen-graham-jones

Birdlandia

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Or, now, I guess: “X-Landia?”

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