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SAT-land
Been hearing for about a year that some of my books have been in the PSAT and SAT—but nobody’s smuggled a snapshot out. Guessing . . . phones aren’t exactly allowed into those testing environments? But, finally: And, in case that tweet or twitter itself goes away, here’s the image, via Jay Slayton-Joslin:
I Miss Them Each One
So many that aren’t here anymore. They all break my heart. But, speaking of, everyone should read Howard Waldrop’s “The Ugly Chickens.”
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https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/wraparoundsouth/summer2018/eastern-kentucky-in-four-figures The Devil’s Rejects movie review (2005) | Roger Ebert A Brief History of Time Travel – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.christophergolden.com/post/to-those-of-you-nodding-along-with-tom-monteleone KUOW – Seattle crows are so smart, they’re challenging what we know about evolution Silver Linings of Being Bitten by a Great White Shark – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Hollywood’s Newest Money-Making Scheme Is… Books
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/george-strait-college-station-record-show https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/magazine/alcohol-health-risks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb 12,000-year-old ritual passed down 500 generations may be world’s oldest | CNN https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-tarantula-summer-love Jibe vs. Jive – What’s the Difference? – Writing Explained Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) – 4K Ultra HD – FILM FREAK CENTRAL
Jaws in Lego
Remember when Jordan Peel did The Shining in emoji? This is the blocky version of that:
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Noted Ho Scott Wampler Once Again Bails Early A Brief History of Time Travel – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.gq.com/story/kevin-costner-gq-cover-story Giant hail as large as DVDs bombards Texas – The Washington Post https://www.darkalcoves.com/1856773_seven-questions-with-michael-wehunt https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy99v7xg45xo
Few extra links & reviews
https://www.bottalk.com/2024/04/conan-lord-of-mount-review.html http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.html https://shepherd.com/best-books/supernatural-terror-with-real-world-adversity
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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
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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
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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
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%
I know X is terrible now—”now,” yes—but every once in a while, you can still find something amazing and perfect and timeless:
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