Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, paleo

Will require some real vigilance on my part, which is far from my strong suit, but I’m gonna try to post these each time the counter gets to “10.” Like this: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/948440-we-are-now-ready-to-tackle-dickens-we-are-now# https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-restaurants-new-recipe-cost-her-life-parents-on-a-mission-to-make-changes https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-neanderthals-seaside-cave-with-60-000-year-old-glue-making-oven-stunned-by-the-construction Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’ –

Lettering protocol for comic books

/ comic books

100% agree with this. And, in addition, I so like stabbing a colon down at the END of a balloon, then putting that post–colon matter in the NEXT balloon (usually with a bridge between the two balloons). However, I found out pretty quickly that I’m the only one who’s a proponent of that. But .

Dead links

/ site

If anyone skating through here catches one, maybe reply under this? Now that comments are finally working again . . . Speaking of, need to go back a few posts and open comments on everything. Wish I could set it as default, not have to remember to do it manually, but should probably just be

Elky fun

/ elk

A Love Letter To THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones https://www.audible.com/blog/top-100-horror-audible-essentials https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Display-Shelf-Indigenous-Fiction Best Books for Native American Heritage Month 10 Horror Authors To Read If You Love Stephen King

Lots of Angel of Indian Lake links

/ chainsaw

(and Reaper and Chainsaw as well) My Retreat From the Mad and Maddening World: A Guest Post by Stephen Graham Jones – B&N Reads Paula Guran Reviews The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones – Locus Online https://fictionmajorette.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-angel-of-indian-lake-stephen-graham.html Nicholas Belardes’s Horror and Not-So-Horror Reads – Kensington Books Publishing https://www.reedfaster.com/2024/10/jade-daniels-is-my-final-girl-angel-of.html?m=1 https://shipwreckedsailor.substack.com/p/friday-links-th3-night-jad3-dani3ls http://www.theretiredlibrarian.com/2024/11/i-was-teenage-slasher.html https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/201963.Best_Dark_Fiction_of_2024 https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2844-getting-moody-new-dark-twisty-reads-across-genres?ref=darkNtwisty24_sa

The Dickens Dash!

/ buffalo

Didn’t even know that’s what it was called—thought I was nabbing it from Nabokov:

Lots of Teenage Slasher stuff

/ teen slasher

Or: what-all I’ve thought to stash in Notes on my phone, anyway. But, man, it’s been a busy couple months. Can’t imagine this is actually comprehensive: https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/slasher-101-stephen-graham-jones-dissects-the-horror-genre-with-dark-humour-in-newest-novel https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-i-was-a-tennage-slasher-by-stephen-graham-jones https://e135-abookaweek.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-was-teenage-slasher-by-stephen-graham.html https://medium.com/@jenniferfarris_54554/i-never-expected-to-have-my-heart-broken-by-a-horror-book-b90643cc373f Horror Beat: This summer’s best double bill was two excellent horror novels Review: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones | FanFiAddict https://www.estapinto.com/books/i-was-a-teenage-slasher-characters-book-review-summary-triggers

Live Wire, Portland Oregon

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Couldn’t have been more fun. My first time doing a thing like this. Here’s to many more:

Here Comes 1776

/ earthdivers

This third trade of Earthdivers has EIGHT issues, this time. The two at the end are the ending of the series. Sad it’s over, but, man, so thrilled to have been involved. Thanks to Mark Doyle, Maggie Howell, Davide Gianfelice, Joanna Lafuente, Steve Wands, Jake Williams, and everyone at IDW. Still floored to have been

Best Reads from Lately

/ etc, movies/tv, paleo

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/science/grizzly-bear-399-killed.html Today I Laid a Crayfish at Your Grave – Belt Magazine How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub – Uncanny Magazine https://www.businessinsider.com/neanderthals-virus-herpes-hpv-caught-from-humans-may-helped-extinction-2024-6 https://susiebright.ink/p/dorothy-allison-cut-off-the-lights Terrifier 3 (2024) – FILM FREAK CENTRAL Revolutionary Nahuatl Lexicon Part I | by David Bowles | Medium https://apnews.com/article/rhesus-macaque-monkeys-south-carolina-lab-escape-81dd4bb3acf2a445c0f899e31a8e05eb https://variety.com/2024/film/features/interview-with-the-vampire-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-neil-jordan-1236205381 Spotify Hits 252 Million Paid Subscribers, On Track For Profitability

Comments on posts

/ site

Been wondering for . . . a year? more? why comments went away on, here. Figured it was a theme or WordPress update, then didn’t have time to think about it anymore. But, now that I just updated the site, I was clicking around, actually trying to figure it out, and: comments have been default-turned

This Monkey’s Paw

/ buffalo

Already signed thousands of these for a super cool edition that I don’t know if it’s announced yet, am in the midst of signing all these boxes, and I have more boxes from a different edition winging my way now. Couldn’t do it without help, either. Thrilled to have found an actually good signing pen,

Buffalo Hunter Hunter ARCs . . .

/ buffalo

My books usually show up on Netgalley too. But . . . maybe timed with the physical ARCs? Or, as you may prefer, “AREs.” Possibly even “Galleys?” I just call them “These dudes.”

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