Best of April 2026
ROTE EP by The Sulac System (read a lot of books as well, but they don’t even have covers yet, I don’t think. and, have been rereading the whole Sin City series, too)
music
Albums
Got to thinking what are the main ones for me, these past fifty-four years. It’s these twelve:
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https://matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-the-shape The Story Behind the Photo of Anne Murray and the Hollywood Vampires Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News Leonardo DiCaprio on ‘One Battle After Another,’ Hollywood, and Playing an Atypical Hero in Conversation With Paul Thomas Anderson https://theconversation.com/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct-265988 Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing
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Stacked em too high last time. So, pulling the trigger early, this Saturday: Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | The Guardian We can’t keep making videogame stories for players who aren’t paying attention to
Best of April 2025
Man, this is LATE. And? probably not exactly starting 5/1, maybe not ending exactly at the end of the month either. “March” posted before I had everything in the staging area ready, and . . . things are all confusing. But, let’s see what I can get together, nearly three weeks late:
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/science/china-fossils-ancient-humans-homo-juluensis-denisovans DVD is dead. Long live DVD. Romero Was Right https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/books/indie-bookshop-e-books.html Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland Op-ed: It’s okay to be angry at anyone who voted for Trump https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/notes-on-sweet-child-o-mine-as-delivered-to-axl-rose-by-his-editor https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/obituaries/tom-robins-dead.html https://creativetime.org/programs/archive/1990/TheBlackSheep/BlackSheep.htm
Best of 2024
Craziest fullest year. Think I had eight weekends in a row where I was doing an event in a different city—well, I say “eight,” but . . . I actually ended up having to cancel the eighth, Miami. Was bummed, as the Rock Bottom Remainders were performing. But, knee was all sloshy with cortisone from,
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/george-strait-college-station-record-show https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/magazine/alcohol-health-risks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb 12,000-year-old ritual passed down 500 generations may be world’s oldest | CNN https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-tarantula-summer-love Jibe vs. Jive – What’s the Difference? – Writing Explained Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) – 4K Ultra HD – FILM FREAK CENTRAL
Best of May 2024
(bit late on/for this one, oops. StokerCon ate my weekend, and a lot of my brain. Just now surfacing again) — "Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole." [image or embed] — Stephen Hopkins (@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social) May 21,