It Begins
All right, I guess, yes, I’m finally going to have to play a video game.
paleo
Best Reads from Lately
“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
Best Reads from Lately
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
Best Reads from Lately
Some slipped through this time—forgot to copy the URLs across, just closed-tab and went on to the next thing. So: blip, gone. But the thing about the internet is that there’s always more. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been into last few . . . I don’t know, ‘days’ for sure, but also ‘weeks,’ and probably
Best Reads from Lately
Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and all the Apple ones are from my wife). Just, don’t want to pretend I have my thumb on all the good pulses. Rather, I know
Best of 2019 so far: the February post
Usually don’t put words in these, but this is the first for the year, and this year’s going to look different. Not just the running title (different titles make them easier to search), but how movie and tv heavy these’ll all likely be for at least the first half of the year. Because? Reading for
Best Articles from . . . Lately
Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately: “Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials“ “Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook“ “What
Best of 2018
Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy,
Best Reads from Lately
I used to screencap these into the monthly best-of posts, but when I started doing those as galleries they ended up getting shrunk to illegibility, so I lazily & loserly gave up. So, this is me trying to reverse that: the best articles I’ve been reading, that I can A) still clearly rememberer, and B)
Caves. Caves Caves Caves Caves CAVES
Here’s hoping a Neanderthal fingerbone or a Denisovan tooth turns up a few strata down. It’s how the world changes. Well, it’s how our perception and understanding of the world changes. Couldn’t be more excited. Would so, so be into ducking down into this one. Except, it’s big enough that no ducking’s required, looks like:
Best of 2018 so far—the December roundup
that “Herpes of the Heart” story: http://the-toast.net/2015/05/29/herpes-heart-short-story/ that comic strip: http://overcompensating.com/oc/index.php?comic=1243
The Wayback Machine
This makes my heart beat so hard. I’m never going to get to sleep now. Thanks to Joe Lansdale for the link (and for so many more like it—he’s the only person I know as into all this as I am):
Neanderthals in Five Minutes
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2018/10/news-neanderthal-teeth-nursing-seasons-stress
Coolest News Since the Last Coolest News
So excited for this. Every day more excellent and vital and compelling stuff is turning up. Well, that makes it sound passive. Dedicated scientists are FINDING this stuff more and more lately. And, I mean, look at this: symbols and art from 100,000 years ago. Boggles my mind in the best way:
The Deer & the Owl
Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway: Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018 Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so
Best of 2018 so far—the July roundup
[ I keep forgetting to do these the day-of. So, at least this one’s the week-of . . . ] Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Encino Man Cometh
Every time I see this, I get excited all over. Because? If a wooly rhino can be frozen in a frozen place for 39,000 years, then . . . so could a Denosivan. I mean, maybe a Neanderthal too, but Denosivans were in the more tundra-ey places, so I think they’re the better bet. In
Evoluting
This is some cool stuff. And, I can see it being used as kind-of support for what I keep hearing: that we sapiens-types evolved not in a single push from heidelbergensis or so, but in both Africa and Asia from erectus. Just, as with these spiders, we ended up so much the same that we
File under: races I have a horse in
In this case, the horse is “Rising Star.” Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2017!
h. naledi: just saying
I mean, yeah, this is a tough one to crack: But, I mean, I did kind of offer what I consider a pretty rational solution: Rising Star