Safe AND Stylish
At least according to my style, which is slasher slasher slasher:
slashers
On Order
Hopefully this is all over before this gets to me (ordered it a week ago), but, if not, I’ll be the coolest dude in the cereal aisle:
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
Mysterious Galaxy!
Great time was had by . . . well, by us, anyway, but presumably, hopefully, by others as well (tweetlink below).
Best Reads from Lately
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
Come Join Us By the Fire goes wide
Available through more channels. My piece is, of course, a slasher:
First 2020 novel for me
Which is to say: DONE with the novel I’ve been writing the last seven or eight weeks. Man. Slasher, of course. What else is there? This pretty much sums it up:
How Meta Can We Get?
Pretty meta, I’d say. Proud to have a final girl on this excellent Nightfire list:
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,”
Best of 2019
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
All the Pretty Lists
No time to thumbnail/preview them (running out the door, in Houston, it’s raining instead of snowing and it’s December, feels like the world’s upside down, and I’m late to a thing to boot…), but here’s some recent ones I caught on Twitter that I’m super honored to have sneaked onto: http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.html https://nightworms.com/blogs/news/the-night-worms-team-favorite-books-of-2019 https://letsgetgalactic.com/2019/12/24/my-most-anticipated-reads-of-2020/ Speaking of