Or, a missed opportunity? What got me thinking about this was that fish we see Luke carrying in The Last Jedi, that he evidently speared with that super-long spear. That fish that, for a planet that kicks up Thala-sirens (those Suessian things he milks) and frog nuns that look straight out of a live-action Emmet […]
( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )
Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and
Reprint of a thing I did . . . in 2017, maybe? Very cool of the very cool Transmotion to run it:
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the
Piece of an older piece, link to the old piece in the description. Though I see now that I think I used that old piece (a piece of it) in another thing I wrote, out as an afterword for a book before too long. But, for now:
Odd: the two things that bubbled up in my Twitter feed this morning are both emotional things that don’t require the characters actually speaking. Pretty cool:
Couldn’t be more excited. I mean, I even blew my one exclamation point for this month up in that subject line, yes?
what this is: last week, maybe the week before, I don’t know, I had a lot to write, so figured to keep myself somewhat on-task by making myself log down what-all was going on. this is that—closing down files, found it off to the side. just added the images and stuff. and, to be sure,
Feel like I’m always talking about what I’ve seen and read, but never about what I WANT to see and read. So, this is that, though I’ve been so lost in World Fantasy reading and a not-announced (I don’t think) reading thing that most of what I want to read is already out (except John
“How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“ “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“ “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“ “skeleton of glass and marmelade“ “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“ “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“ “In Which Colson Whitehead is Highly
I’m thankful to the first Goosebumps movie for two things: 1) being a very fun movie that doesn’t insult its young target audience by making everything hunky-dory, and 2) without it, I’m not completely sure we get this adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. And, before I get further into this: I
One of Ellen Datlow’s new anthologies*. This one’s all film-adjacent horror: Das Gesicht by Dale Bailey Drunk Physics by Kelley Armstrong Exhalation #10 by A. C. Wise Scream Queen by Nathan Ballingrud Family by Lisa Morton Night of the Living by Paul Cornell The One We Tell Bad Children by Laird Barron Snuff in Six Scenes by
What are all the crocagator movies? Alligator, Primeval, Lake Placid. I keep hearing about Rogue, but can’t place it, though I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theater. Much like this afternoon’s Crawl. So, in short: it’s nothing but fun. Anybody see Hurricane Heist? It’s got that feel. Just, with monsters. So, with no
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway: “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“ “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“ “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“ “Why narrating an audiobook is a
