movies/tv
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-texas-oil-boom-busts-11594440031 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatch/how-two-waves-of-coronavirus-cases-swept-through-the-texas-panhandle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/ford-bronco-is-back-after-o-j-simpson-made-it-famous https://tv.avclub.com/timothy-omundson-on-his-seinfeld-start-and-getting-back-1844335402 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: An Explainer – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://hobbylark.com/comic-books/Who-Are-The-Native-American-Heroes-of-Marvel-Comics https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/obituaries-for-the-parts-of-me-that-have-died-inside https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/world/scientists-fossil-mystery-tanystropheus-scn-trnd/index.html https://apple.news/AOOt5__SrRjafuZm4rYVYjA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-final-frontier A rare giant shark now sits in an ice block at the Smithsonian, allowing researchers to hopefully unravel clues about its evolution – CNN
Best Reads from Lately
https://apnews.com/1ecd8a37bd1e4dc68ebed3c4568fcf72 https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Christopher-Columbus-statue-torn-down-thrown-in-lake-by-protesters-571149751.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film Slice & Dice: How Post-Pandemic Horror Could Lead to the Next Golden Age of Slashers – Bloody Disgusting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html regal jumping spider – Phidippus regius C.L. Koch https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/09/this-incredibly-rare-white-grizzly-has-emerged-in-banff-why-experts-hope-you-never-see-it.html Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days – CNN Roman city of Falerii Novi mapped
Best Reads from Lately
some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/23/indian-country-set-for-historic-showdown.asp?fbclid=IwAR22KYb_gVA7rV-ULC_2fP3cZmJvpJPlYv2cD3_2nJ9REjeFmPtLJLfjE60 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/09/outsider-stephen-king-adaptations/ https://theoutline.com/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emails-from-my-childrens-school-before-8-00-am-during-the-covid-19-crisis https://bookriot.com/2020/02/27/dark-academia-books/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262295/Pentagon-declassifies-officially-releases-three-UFO-videos.html https://www.businessinsider.in/science/research/news/ancient-tools-found-in-india-suggest-the-toba-supervolcano-eruption-didnt-leave-humanity-on-the-brink-of-extinction/articleshow/74313715.cms Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles | Literary Hub https://theconversation.com/fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-extinct-hobbit-from-flores-island-124747 Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made
Best Reads from Lately
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…): https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-mega-tunnels-dug-by-south-american-megafauna http://www.montanakaimin.com/opinion/dating-as-a-native-it-s-more-complicated-than-sovereignty/article_8081c614-4cf4-11ea-8e6c-87bf991b1606.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699 http://jaws1975.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-knife-edge.html Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It? https://geekycamel.com/savage-yearbook-quotes-that-prove-seniors-have-no-limits/ ‘Broken promises’: Tribes decry leak
STNG & Cheers
Caught this at this tweet, but am putting the image here in case something happens to that tweet—I don’t want to lose this one. Great happiness is contained within:
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https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/decision-on-friday-the-13th-court-case-expected-in-may-or-june https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51532781 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/03/802215344/researchers-link-autism-to-a-system-that-insulates-brain-wiring https://gizmodo.com/apple-bans-bad-guys-from-using-iphones-in-movies-says-1841929887 https://apple.news/AAI0aeXtyQI2XTQZ4MPC7Zw https://theconversation.com/humans-domesticated-horses-new-tech-could-help-archaeologists-figure-out-where-and-when-131831 https://www.livescience.com/earth-shorter-days-millions-years-ago.html https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia – CNN https://ourcommunitynow.com/local-culture/black-forest-coloradoone-of-the-worlds-most-haunted-places https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ https://www.theonion.com/study-96-percent-of-humans-would-rather-be-animatronic-1819572872 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/as-a-virus-upends-hollywood-may-never-be-a-return-normal-1286691 https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9342389/coronavirus-touring-concert-business-billboard-cover-story-2020 How Will the Coronavirus End? – The Atlantic European Neanderthals ate fresh seafood, which may have given their brains a boost – CNN https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/21-yr-old-student-from-pune-and-the-curious-case-of-her-changing-hands-6301734/ America Is Looking
Midsommar / X-Files?
Talking about season 1, episode 14, “Gender Bender.” You remember: the white-clay sort-of “Amish” one? Anyway, it seems to share a lot of the themes and imagery with Midsommar : free love/lots of sex, fun with distorted/altered perception, big serene meadows, but, too, a lot of the beats line up as well: there’s interlopers in
Great Lines from Recent (to me) TV
Guess I should have stacked these into animated gifs—take up less space that way. But, in lieu: Man in the High Castle s.4 Breaking Bad s . . . .2, I think? Dracula ep2 ( and, um, yeah, I just pause stuff on my television screen, creep up with my phone, angle it around to
Best Reads from Lately
Once again, I let this get to be an unwieldy enough stack of links/reads that to slow down and make them into a pretty and proper list would keep me from revising the novel I’m revising. So, in all their likely awkwardness, with apologies for some embedding, some being URLS, some shuddering into some completely
Ye Olde English
Well, as I understand it, “Ye” is really a typographic artifact, not an actual word. But it’s fun to say. Anyway, this looks to be killer:
All Things Jaws
Didn’t mean it to happen, but a post I started on here a few years ago became kind of a dumping ground for all things The Shining. Or, for weird things The Shining? Talking about this. But, more intentionally now, I’m going to start piling all my Jaws stuff here. And? There’s always more Jaws
Best Horror Movies of the Decade
for me. Didn’t think to do this until listening to Shock Waves‘ top 10 of the decade, but I guess it was a decade already somehow. So, in no order, and including honorable mentions (with my favorite being of course Cabin), and, it looks like, not quite sticking to even the loosest definition of “ten,”