movies/tv

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, news, paleo

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 […]

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

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”

Best of 2018

/ bookish, comic books, movies/tv

wow, THIS in Drafts as well. looks like it’s what I meant to by my Best of 2018, but then forgot I’d started it, so did it all over. Novel: The Outsider NF: Atlas of a Lost World, Close Encounters with Humankind, The Neanderthals Rediscovered  Non-Horror Movie: The Rider  Slasher: The Strangers: Prey at Night,

Best Reads from Lately

/ comic books, etc, movies/tv, paleo

Excerpts from AI-Written Rom-Coms That Prove Human Writers Are Obsolete – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-overlapped-shared-culture-western-europe https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679 https://willchristopherbaer.substack.com/p/move-37 300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization – The Washington Post Image Comics ditches Diamond for Lunar to get its comics into comic shops after a 25+ year relationship

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo, slashers

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/word-processing-exclamation-mark-1.6795166 The Matawan Man-eater: The real-life inspiration for Jaws Blackfeet/Niimíipuu actress Lily Gladstone on the verge of stardom Here’s How One Angry Parent Got All Graphic Novels Pulled From a School District https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-little-engine-that-could-but-chose-not-to https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/04/06/orangutan-breastfeeding-101-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn Goujian: The Ancient Chinese Sword that Defied Time | Ancient Origins https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-woman-lake-jeep-17890787.php Why is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? (Hint: Vikings!) | Smart

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-retrospect-the-theme-for-chads-4th-birthday-party-should-not-have-been-stanford-prison-experiment (https://twitter.com/mcsweeneys/status/1632929056978001920?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA) Jenna Ortega Changed Wednesday Scripts: ‘The Character Made No Sense’ – Variety Researchers Examine 3,500-Year-Old Brown Bear Preserved in Siberian Permafrost | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/false-star ‘Marsupial sabertooth’ had massive canines that grew over its skull | CNN Stone tools accidentally made by Thai monkeys are surprisingly similar to those made by

Best Reads from Lately

/ bookish, etc, movies/tv, SGJ

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-2-1235507813/ Who made the first stone tools? Discovery sheds light on mystery | CNN https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2023/01/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-old-white.html Neanderthal genes may have helped early humans adapt to differences in Eurasian daylight hours https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-did-neanderthals-hunt https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/world/maya-civilization-causeways-lidar-discovery-scn/index.html Cruise ship stumbles on a rare sight: a gathering of 1,000 whales https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-you-give-a-bear-cocaine https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/severe-weather-coverage-for-sunday-february-26/

Five horror movies

/ chainsaw, movies/tv

This probably won’t embed—it’s Instagram—but hopefully it’ll link, anyway. And, I seem to have screen capped this during the one second in the recording I’m holding Reaper up:

Best Reads from Lately

/ comic books, etc, movies/tv, paleo

Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/ https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365 Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice

Best Reads from Lately

/ bookish, etc, movies/tv, music, paleo

Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/encino-man-oral-history https://mashable.com/article/snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska-why https://www.gq.com/story/dont-fear-the-reaper-more-cowbell-oral-history https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846 Scientists Might Have Just Found Where Cannabis Originally Came From : ScienceAlert Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects millions. Why isn’t the medical profession paying more attention? | CNN Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, music, paleo

https://themaplemoon.substack.com/p/20-questions-with-monica-drake https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author https://apple.news/ABBhSCt7iTM-LXXdPOHSnFA https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ai-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text | UK news | The Guardian https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homo-naledi-pre-human-ancestor-fire-tool-south-africa/ https://worldtravelling.com/comics-with-a-very-dark-tone-created-by-the-renowned-cartoonist-joan-cornella/

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/33411764/Jones_Done_to_Death.pdf ‘Forgotten archive’ of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church – Medievalists.net Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed: Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago — ScienceDaily Ancient Maya Cities Were Polluted With High Levels of Mercury |

Best of the Year So Far: for October

/ movies/tv

(hey, oops: WordPress seems to be messing up, here—what’s supposed to be an image galley is for some reason a vertical stack of images [on desktop]. hopefully it gets fixed. looks kind of ridiculous. apologies)

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo, slashers

Biden to appoint first Native American treasurer of the United States – CNNPolitics Honey Badger vs Wolverine Fight: Who Would Win? https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2022/06/15/indigenous-scholar-investigates-changing-relationship-fish-people https://www.archaeology.org/issues/474-2207/digs/10606-digs-texas-pecos-speech-breath https://apple.news/AmPNwOjScQAqRS949XuAuhA https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10951119/Most-complete-baby-mammoth-North-America-FOUND.html https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mystery-rocket-NASA-moon-crash-country-origin-17273903.php https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbz7/new-dinosaur-meraxes-gigas-argentina Pope Francis went to Canada to apologize. For some indigenous school survivors, he triggered more pain | CNN https://mashable.com/article/greenland-shark-discovered-caribbean/ Tonina Sun Temple ‘Cave Of Death’ Holds Balls Of

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

‘Meta’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does – The Atlantic https://www.ign.com/articles/predator-prey-first-film-with-full-comanche-language-dub A charging moose injured two adults and their dog near Boulder – CNN https://www.livescience.com/32193-why-are-lips-red.html 15 Fascinating Facts About Goats Marie Dorion: The Most Badass Woman in Oregon History  Ground zero for the Black Death finally found after 600 years | Metro News Yellowstone

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative (We don’t share land here) — High Country News – Know the West https://www.dw.com/en/why-do-humans-eat-so-much-meat/a-60735141 ‘Friday the 13th’ legal battle is just the tip of this Hollywood horror story – CNN I Was a Mom of Two, and I Got Pregnant With an IUD | by

upcoming events

Scroll to Top