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Best Reads from Lately
(one shy of “10” here, but I suspect this week’s about to get away from me, meaning that the next time I look at this, it’s gonna be “45” or something. and, WOW: first one of these I’m posting that doesn’t have some Neanderthal/Paleolithic read. who even am I) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quantum-computing-topological-qubit.html The Department of Veterans Affairs
Best Reads from Lately
finally remembered to post this when the hands struck “10!” Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters – The Onion https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/science/antarctica-deep-ice-core/index.html Limerick granted ownership of her works – Longmont Times Call https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/tina-fey-profile-anchor-woman https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/science/giant-sea-bug-darth-vader-vietnam/index.html https://screenrant.com/the-monkey-2025-movie-osgood-perkins-stephen-king-story-change-reaction https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/18/oldest-gun-in-us-arizona/77802506007 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/how-sleeping-pills-interfere-with-the-brains-internal-cleaning-mechanism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/books/clay-mcleod-chapman.html
2025 Horror Films I’m Ready For
Also very interested in the I’ll Never Forget What You Did Last Summer. And I don’t think Victorian Psycho has a date yet, alas. Wanting to catch The Dead Thing as well, but it’s 2024, I believe?
David Lynch
I’m forever driving down that Lost Highway: The one interview I ever got to do ON Lost Highway: And, for my money, the best book on Lost Highway—on Art, really: Completely changed the way I think about story. Couple nice obit-type write-ups: https://horror.org/in-dreams-a-tribute-to-david-lynch/https://horror.org/in-dreams-a-tribute-to-david-lynch/ https://theconversation.com/david-lynch-exposed-the-rot-at-the-heart-of-american-culture-247670 And:
Best Reads from Lately
Okay, maybe “12” is a better round number for these? I seem to be not-great at remembering “10.” Surprisingly thick ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa complicates hunt for life | Science | AAAS https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/science/mirror-bacteria-research-risks/index.html Archaeo-Histories: “A 2300 year-old Horse Headdres…” – ohai.social https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/europe/baby-mammoth-russian-crater-preserved-intl-latam World’s Deadliest Rat Can Kill An Elephant With 1 Bite How
Best of 2024
Craziest fullest year. Think I had eight weekends in a row where I was doing an event in a different city—well, I say “eight,” but . . . I actually ended up having to cancel the eighth, Miami. Was bummed, as the Rock Bottom Remainders were performing. But, knee was all sloshy with cortisone from,
Best Reads from Lately
Well, almost posted this before it went over “10?” And, this post looks way-weird on the main/”home” page. But, it’s normal once you click. Who knows. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/26/nobel-prize-all-that-glitters https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/science/neanderthal-fossil-extinction-grotte-mandrin-france/index.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14174993/dogs-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-mutated-new-superpower.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/neanderthals-may-have-had-explosive-strength-thanks-to-their-bell-shaped-ribcages/ar-AA1vOaLC https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientists-discovered-50-000-year-old-viruses-in-neanderthal-dna-that-could-help-explain-their-mysterious-extinction/ar-BB1nKNuC http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/09/story-behind-huntagain.html https://open.substack.com/pub/briankeene/p/letters-from-the-labyrinth-407 https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/william-gibson ‘Dog-Like’ Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal – Newsweek Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/science/grizzly-bear-399-killed.html Today I Laid a Crayfish at Your Grave – Belt Magazine How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub – Uncanny Magazine https://www.businessinsider.com/neanderthals-virus-herpes-hpv-caught-from-humans-may-helped-extinction-2024-6 https://susiebright.ink/p/dorothy-allison-cut-off-the-lights Terrifier 3 (2024) – FILM FREAK CENTRAL Revolutionary Nahuatl Lexicon Part I | by David Bowles | Medium https://apnews.com/article/rhesus-macaque-monkeys-south-carolina-lab-escape-81dd4bb3acf2a445c0f899e31a8e05eb https://variety.com/2024/film/features/interview-with-the-vampire-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-neil-jordan-1236205381 Spotify Hits 252 Million Paid Subscribers, On Track For Profitability
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https://www.thebrighterside.news/discoveries/dna-evidence-reveals-that-neanderthals-didnt-go-extinct https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html Pitting Literary Fiction Against Genre Fiction Is Intrinsically Silly ‹ CrimeReads https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change https://www.ranker.com/list/cannibal-history-of-jameson-whiskey/rachel-souerbry https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/elon-musk-federal-agencies-contracts.html Missouri, Kansas, And Idaho Are Suing The FDA Because They Don’t Have Enough Teen Moms Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals the Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath Speed | Patreon Good Omens Season 3 Will Only Be 90 Minutes Long –
Best reads from lately
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/95910-tim-o-connell-takes-the-reigns-at-saga-press.html Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse | CNN https://link.lithub.com/view/602eabc6180f243d654b95celuktr.1hwp/d8c149cc https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-rise-of-indigenous-horror-how-a-fiction-genre-is-confronting-a-monstrous-reality-1.5323428 https://www.livescience.com/animals/bees-wasps/parasitic-horror-wasp-that-bursts-from-a-fly-s-abdomen-like-an-alien-xenomorph-discovered-in-mississippi-backyard Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows Shakespeare was an Alien!. It’s the only possible conclusion… | by Eric Armstrong | Medium
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We fact-checked Trump’s recent news conference : NPR Review: Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/pronghorn-texas-fastest-mammal https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/africa/toba-supervolcano-early-human-migration-africa-scn/index.html Sydney Sweeney on Fame, Euphoria, and the Pressure of Paying the Bills World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast | Palaeontology | The Guardian Deciphering the Denisovans
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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
Best of May 2024
(bit late on/for this one, oops. StokerCon ate my weekend, and a lot of my brain. Just now surfacing again) — "Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole." [image or embed] — Stephen Hopkins (@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social) May 21,