Best reads from lately

/ bookish, etc, movies/tv, paleo

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/95910-tim-o-connell-takes-the-reigns-at-saga-press.html Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse | CNN https://link.lithub.com/view/602eabc6180f243d654b95celuktr.1hwp/d8c149cc https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-rise-of-indigenous-horror-how-a-fiction-genre-is-confronting-a-monstrous-reality-1.5323428 https://www.livescience.com/animals/bees-wasps/parasitic-horror-wasp-that-bursts-from-a-fly-s-abdomen-like-an-alien-xenomorph-discovered-in-mississippi-backyard Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows Shakespeare was an Alien!. It’s the only possible conclusion… | by Eric Armstrong | Medium […]

Robert McCammon to the rescue

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Thanks to Benjamin Percy for the heads-up. And, man, if only I had the nerve to ever do something like this. I’ll jump off whatever, walk into dark places, stick my fingers in light sockets, all that. But, this? This is far beyond consideration, for me. Not because it’s rap. Because it’s doing something remotely

Columbus, Ohio

/ events

Thanks for bringing me here, Columbus Metro Library. Will put these in before/during/after order: It was exciting getting to see @sgj.bsky.social speak at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in the company of my friends from HWA Ohio. He even signed my book afterwards and told me my shirt was cool! (It's the anime-style shirt of a

Tucson, Tucson, Tucson

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Man, what a cool city, a cool landscape. Sort of fell for it. Couple pics from being there (WLA), via Billy Stratton and Theo Van Alst.

The Heart of Columbus

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Well, I mean: seemed like a pretty grand subject line? Anyway, I’m there Sunday, 2pm:

The Vote, the Vote!

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(trying to intone that like “The plane! The plane!” from Fantasy Island . . .

Kris Kristofferson

/ news

Been saying for a few years that I’m not sure how to live in a world without Kris Kristofferson. Guess now we all have to figure that one out. But we’ve still got the art he left. It’s not going away any time soon. Good obit at Rolling Stone. Dude lived a life, and left

Best reads from lately

/ bookish, etc, movies/tv, paleo

We fact-checked Trump’s recent news conference : NPR Review: Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/pronghorn-texas-fastest-mammal https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/africa/toba-supervolcano-early-human-migration-africa-scn/index.html Sydney Sweeney on Fame, Euphoria, and the Pressure of Paying the Bills World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast | Palaeontology | The Guardian Deciphering the Denisovans

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