movies/tv
Best reads from lately
https://aftershockcomics.com/2020/05/how-a-former-daily-show-writer-crafted-a-slasher-comic/ https://www.archaeology.org/issues/60-1301/trenches/314-chajul-guatemala-dance-conquest https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/maus Leatherface is Canceled in New TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Trailer – Fangoria East And West Coast Butter Is Different, And We’ve All Been Living A Lie | HuffPost Life https://www.boredpanda.com/sarcastic-quotes/ ‘Near Dark’ Is A Uniquely American Masterpiece Of An Unheralded Cinematic Subgenre: The Vampire Neo-Western | Decider Unknown space object beams out radio
Best Reads from Lately
Which are pretty soon from the last post like this. But, in my disorganized notes, I found a whole stack that I’d meant to post (hopefully I haven’t already?), so, with them, yeah, there’s already a few here. I’ll put some “####” down where the breakover point is from recovered/unlost ones to “new” ones. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3685298/jason-blum-explains-halloween-kills-going-straight-streaming-peacock/
Best of 2021
Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451 (seriously, this is the best read ever) https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/this-land-belongs-to-the-mi-kmaq-people-historic-land-transfer-on-nova-scotia-s-south-shore-1.5683773 https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3693831/peta-channels-leatherface-faux-urban-outraged-clothing-line-made-genuine-human-leather/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism – The Atlantic https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/what-texas-inherited-from-larry-mcmurtry/ Here’s How An Australian Man’s Hunt for Gold Helped Unearth a Meteorite Older Than Earth! | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/netflixs-red-notice-has-turned-event-movie-non-event/ https://karendian.com/ Hollywood’s Sobering New Reality of
Best of 2021 so far: for October
October was so, so, so busy with events &etc, much etc, that . . . I either wasn’t jotting stuff down for this, or I wasn’t watching a lot. I was reading a lot, but most of it doesn’t have covers yet . . .
Best Reads from Lately
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/22/neanderthal-mans-recreated-face-takes-internet- The Many Saints Of Newark Ending Explained: Who Made Tony Soprano? https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joro-spiders-invasive-georgia_n_615871e0e4b0487c855f6263 https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/hiker-peak-of-desperation/ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/octopus-farming-is-immoral-given-everything-we-know-about-this-highly-intelligent-and-solitary-animal-philip-lymbery-3412887 Minnetonka CEO apologizes for appropriating Native American culture : NPR https://variety.com/2021/film/columns/yes-halloween-knockoff-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1235090664/ 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/werewolf-movies-1981-howling-american-london-wolfen-full-moon-high-anniversary S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neo-Pronouns and Genre-Hopping
Telluride Horror Show
Couldn’t have been a better time. My favorite film of the fest (that I caught): The Spine of Night. But, man, did I dig The Sadness, too. Anyway, here’s what stuff I saved off social media, along with some few snapshots (which — they may be some doubling there, apologies):
Halloween Kills
SPOILERS BELOW! BEWARE, BEWARE! I only wish I had time and headspace right now to write on this one like I wrote on the last one. But, alas & alack, to even get this one into my head, I had to wake up early enough at Telluride Horror Show to stream it before hitting all
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by-storm/ https://www.them.us/story/reservation-dogs-devery-jacobs-sydney-freeland-tommy-pico-interview https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-simulated-neanderthal-behaviors-by-catching-birds-with-their-bare-hands-180978737/ https://www.businessinsider.com/fossil-footprints-humans-occupied-north-america-ice-age-2021-9 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/ https://www.insideedition.com/inuit-elder-remembers-his-first-day-at-residential-school-i-was-kidnapped-68723 https://www.salon.com/2021/09/20/reservation-dogs-sterlin-harjo-fx-on-hulu/ https://pagesix.com/2021/09/28/steven-van-zandt-says-he-loved-threesomes-in-new-book
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-test-shows-medieval-person-buried-sword-and-womens-clothing-may-have-been-intersex-180978407/ https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/kids-shows-tiny-details-jokes https://www.wionews.com/science/neanderthals-population-might-have-declined-due-to-sex-with-humans-study-403707 https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/amp/ethnic-group-in-the-philippines-have-highest-level-of-denisovan-dna-in-the-world-351974 Machu Picchu in Peru is older than previously thought | CNN Travel Opinion: I’m a college professor, not a Covid guinea pig – CNN https://www.vulture.com/article/reservation-dogs-recap-season-one-episode-5.html https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-appreciate-your-concern-but-our-enormous-wedding-was-socially-distanced https://www.vulture.com/article/the-sopranos-ending-explained.html https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Galveston-Michael-Myers-beach-bloody-knife-16457178.php https://www.newscientist.com/article/2288031-7200-year-old-dna-suggests-denisovans-bred-with-humans-on-sulawesi/ Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ – The New York Times https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2021/09/17/indigenous-education-advocates-fight-inclusion-south-dakota-kristi-noem-montana-california-hawaii/5696882001/ New Netflix series ‘Grendel’ first
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db5qa/hunter-brittain-arkansas-teen-holding-antifreeze-shot-killed-sheriffs-deputy https://scroll.in/article/998630/a-new-extinct-human-species-found-in-china-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our-closest-relatives https://www.businessinsider.com/female-lawyers-dress-codes-law-firm-court-discrimination-sexism-2021-6 Neanderthals engraved a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago – CNN Inside the Imagination of Ellen Datlow – Mythaxis Review https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/10/trauma-began-us-faces-reckoning-native-american-boarding-school/ https://worldnewsera.com/news/politics/this-governor-withdrew-from-a-climate-pact-days-later-hes-pleading-for-help-with-drought/ Opinion: What the GOP is really after in Texas | CNN https://www.gq.com/story/jason-sudeikis-august-cover-profile https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/national-park-sued-for-starving-152-elk-to-death Russia’s permafrost is thawing – and it could make melting polar ice caps look like a
Stephen King interview/talk
My Washington Post review of Later is right up front in the intro, too. But, more important: very cool words from the Kingman, as ever: