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Best Reads from Lately
These are coming fast than usual, but that’s because I’ve been (thanks to the NBA finals) cleaning up my tabs, reading all the stuff I told myself I was saving to read someday. Welp: “someday” finally came . . . The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software – Typebar Magazine Sex
Best Reads from Lately
Second time round: reviving a rotary engine motorcycle | Bike EXIF Sydney Sweeney is selling soap infused with her ‘actual’ bathwater | CNN https://www.vulture.com/article/king-of-the-hill-reboot-revival-preview-interview-bobby-release-date.html Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100,000 years old, prof says | CBC News https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/broken-watch The Unexpected Delights of Being a Jeopardy Clue ‹ CrimeReads Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
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Ryan Coogler says inspiration for the film felt ‘like a bolt of lightning’ : NPR Two Individuals Achieve First-Ever Communication Through Lucid Dreams While Sleeping At Separate Locations https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woodpecker-damages-vehicles-massachusetts-town-rcna202755 Don’t fear the fungi | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder EVERYONE I HAVE EVER KISSED THINKS ABOUT ME ALL OF THE
Best of April 2025
Man, this is LATE. And? probably not exactly starting 5/1, maybe not ending exactly at the end of the month either. “March” posted before I had everything in the staging area ready, and . . . things are all confusing. But, let’s see what I can get together, nearly three weeks late:
Best Reads from Lately
I think I maybe stopped at “10” for once, like I always mean to? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/game-of-thrones-dire-wolves-return-extinction-1236181901 Rowling Runs Her Mouth About Queer People, Again — Assigned https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/science/octopus-riding-shark-new-zealand.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=239D375E-70AD-4ADF-BEDF-06E028F28A2A ‘The Breakfast Club’ Stars Reunite for First Time in 40 Years Grave Expectations: FFC Interviews David Cronenberg – FILM FREAK CENTRAL https://wip.gatspress.com/issue/the-prehistoric-psychopath ‘We belong everywhere’: Lily Gladstone in
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https://www.startribune.com/law-enforcers-are-getting-around-the-transparency-of-body-worn-cameras/601233065 Psychedelic DMT Controls Near-Death Experiences, Scientists Say https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-efforts-yellowstone-bison-population.amp https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/books/review/we-tell-ourselves-stories-alissa-wilkinson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=20F1D650-3372-42BD-A82D-36FA9D9F43AE French MEP asks US to return the Statue of Liberty Heartthrob, Hero, Closet Intellectual: The Many Faces of Bruce Willis | Vanity Fair https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349 Snow White (2025) – FILM FREAK CENTRAL ‘King Kong’: The Unbelievable True Story of Hollywood’s Favorite Giant Ape Why Simon &
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(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
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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:
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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