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
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
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
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
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:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9572542/lin-manuel-miranda-in-the-heights-movie-interview/ http://thecoachellareview.com/2021/01/19/interview-a-conversation-with-the-ladies-of-the-fright https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-so-many-sexual-predators-at-indian-residential-schools-escaped-punishment https://www.wsj.com/articles/colorado-lets-cities-set-their-own-gun-laws-and-boulder-plans-to-move-quickly-11624121655 How Christopher Landon Is Reinventing The Slasher Movie – Fangoria https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/what-is-going-on-at-yale-law-school https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17476615?fbclid=IwAR1E1dTcepA2vRwHgBKzYjf7IqqBYoQ1gaokGWtEYaauUZHCcyAkImNALCI https://apnews.com/article/canada-67da8a8af88efc91e6ffc64630796ec9 Puzzling skull discovery may point to previously unknown human ancestor ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-06-18/f9-fast-and-furious-justin-lin-vin-diesel https://www.newscientist.com/article/2282141-newly-identified-ancestor-of-neanderthals-complicates-the-human-story/amp/
https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/blog/2021/5/10/mondays-are-for-meat https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/plots-of-nineteen-eighties-movies-if-their-protagonists-had-been-people-of-color? https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-restore-tribal-homelands-empower-tribal-governments?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.j99aVdSc9J0mr_qnnXtFrzw.rjEmfyN2NVEeTturveXAKRg.lOA4YBVrIrUyAoLPdUjY2nQ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/22/john-steinbecks-estate-urged-to-let-the-world-read-his-shunned-werewolf-novel https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/they-came-they-sawed/ https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/black-cowboys.htm https://www.gq.com/story/johnny-knoxvilles-last-rodeo https://thedaddest.com/trending/turn-texts-fb/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01429-6
GM announces electric Chevy Silverado pickup that can go 400 miles on a single charge – CNN Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people – CNN https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/creepy-things-kids-have-said-about-past-lives https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabianabuontempo/creepy-most-unexplainable-true-stories https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awpx/scientists-discover-huge-and-mysterious-jellyfish-shaped-structure-in-space https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php https://www.daily-stuff.com/the-funniest-headstones-you-will-ever-see/ Reindeer bone rewrites Irish human history | Ireland | The Sunday Times https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/writing-prompts-from-a-teacher-trying-to-get-her-class-to-reveal-where-they-hid-her-keys http://southwestreview.com/volume-105-number-3/them-a-pitch/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/neanderthals-werent-just-smart-they-might-have-taught-humans-a-thing-or-two/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/rick-santorum-native-americans-comments-outrage-cnn National Parks Should
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-29/larry-mcmurtry-early-work-obliterated-western-cliches ‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Trollhunter,’ and the Birth of Found Footage Monster Movies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-surviving-wood-sculpture-even-older-previously-thought-180977320/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-school-shooting-that-austin-forgot/ https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/star-wars-george-lucas-marcia-editor-wife-15991031.php https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Broke-in-the-D-League-Why-my-NBA-dress-code-16064235.php https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/sf-movie-theater-reopening-godzilla-amc-16070767.php https://rifnote.com/2021/04/03/crystals-found-in-kalahari-desert-challenge-assumptions-about-where-in-africa-human-culture-arose/ https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/bbc-three-comedy-horror-series-wrecked-1234940633/
Is It Time to Kill the Book Blurb? – WSJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-nfts-insight-idUSKCN2AT1HG http://kendallreviews.com/feature-brian-asman-offers-a-wonderful-response-to-the-question-why-do-you-write-horror/ https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php https://www.slashfilm.com/come-closer-movie/ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-cave-in-germany-is-one-possible-center-for-early-wolf-domestication https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neandertals-probably-perceived-speech-quite-well/ http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/neanderthal-speech-09405.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/19/magazine/how-college-dropout-new-hampshire-found-shakespeare-secret-all-phds-missed/ https://apple.news/AzidpSJwzRoGqeNqbwYKGzw https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-20/neanderthals-how-close-are-we-to-our-extinct-relatives.html?outputType=amp https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Neanderthals-possibly-responsible-for-their-own-extinction.htm https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/world/oumuamua-interstellar-object-scn-trnd/index.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-vaccines-raise-hope-cold-reality-dawns-covid-19-is-likely-here-to-stay-11612693803 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/12/966470891/minibrains-with-a-neanderthal-gene-offer-hints-about-human-evolution https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21076981/isabel-fall-clarkesworld-attack-helicopter-short-story-gender-art-controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/ken-burns-our-monuments-are-representations-myth-not-fact/?arc404=true https://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2018/06/mary-when-you-follow-her https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-11/hollywood-book-boom-walter-mosley-charles-yu-other-novelists-on-writing-tv https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/humans-didnt-outsmart-neanderthals-just-outlasted-them.htm One Long WTF: A Celebration of Prince, Music’s Most Electrifying, Least Understood Star Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it | Science | AAAS Teeth reveal tantalizing details about a Neanderthal who fell down a well – CNN https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/venetian-blue-beads-found-in-alaska-predate-arrival-of-columbus https://www.robertmccammon.com/interviews/rrm-lansdale.html?fbclid=IwAR0vkhlDlohNd40iQVlDKAmyDijEo769XnLpsSYVjbFK_m92VluBy4_wiVs https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/19/texas-power-outage-winter-storm-deaths/ https://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com/2021/02/has-britain-recognised-its-old-and.html?m=1 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/interior-design-tips-from-a-straight-single-man https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/juno-jupiter-image-february-2021 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/dr-lecter-my-name-is-clarice-starling
Electric eels hunt in packs, ‘extraordinary’ research reveals – CNN https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/when-did-ancient-humans-begin-to-understand-death https://collider.com/damon-lindelof-lost-original-ending-plan/ https://magazine.lensvid.com/article/1112023854/inspiring-photos-to-restore-our-faith-in-humanity/ Santa’s New York Roots | The New York Public Library The Movie Theater as We Know It Is Dying. We Can Make Something Better https://variety.com/2021/film/news/silence-of-the-lambs-anthony-hopkins-jodie-foster-1234887270/ How Neanderthal DNA affects human health — including the risk of getting Covid-19 – CNN Covid-19 masks:
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240117-oldest-ever-piece-of-string-was-made-by-neanderthals-50000-years-ago/ https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/indian-country-year-in-review-major-moments-DSnYwpua-EafiP6qpviCjA https://apple.news/AnXLTFnFxSJibW-NFAeWJhw http://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know Santa’s New York Roots | The New York Public Library https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78214-4 Too Sacred To Drill | Earthjustice https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-extra-podcast/id256580326?i=1000492683785 Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization | CNN Travel https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55657257 https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/world/dire-wolves-grey-wolves-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/quiet-riots-metal-health-story-behind-cover-art Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization | CNN Travel https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/6000-years-arrows-emerge-melting-norway-ice-patch/ https://www.ranker.com/list/horror-movies-where-black-characters-survive/mariel-loveland
Gonna do this fast, here, as, when I take time and mull, this annual post just gets longer and longer—me, trying to include everything. So, before I can think too much, dig back too much, and probably including stuff I should have caught in 2019, or 2002: Novel(s) of the Year Comic Book of the
And, I should say: before we started recording, my question was, “So . . . is this ABOUT horror set on the holidays, or is this called what it is because we’re recording here IN the holidays?” Worked out great, though: wonderful people, excellent moderating, good signals/connections all around — this is all you need
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
