Back to it soon (the site)

Been ignoring everything I could get away with ignoring since Dec1: started a novel that day. Finished Saturday. Think I said on X or BlueSky that it’s my first vampire novel, but . . . realizing now I actually wrote another back in 1999. But it wasn’t good enough even to mess around rewriting. Some […]

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https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/science/the-doctor-s-world-ingenuity-and-a-miraculous-revival.html The Insane True Story of How Doctor Wesley Snipes Wrote His First Novel | LitReactor How ‘The X-Files’ changed pop culture and the internet as we know it | CNN https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-skeletons-shoes-jewels-rome-scn?cid=ios_app https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-rock-art-painted-by-aboriginal-people-depicts-indonesian-warships-study-suggests https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1742667620220866811?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA https://news.yahoo.com/native-tribes-getting-slice-land-110008943.html https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/06/03/filmmakers-chronicle-aftermath-blackfeet-flood-1964/1287588001/ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-january-4th-acceptance-speech https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/nyregion/human-burial-pet-cemetery.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/world/largest-ape-gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/americas/oldest-skin-fossil-scli-intl-scn/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/endangered-jaguar-spotted-in-arizona-previously-unknown-to-us/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/television/reacher-women-dad-tv.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/upper-sioux-agency-state-park-community-1862-treaty-minnesota-dnr/89-c6c71df2-d64f-4aa5-adb7-82bbe1e1277d https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/americas/indigenous-language-chana-blas-jaime.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/27/blackfeet-nation-lily-gladstone/ (https://apple.news/AiNH_lxBBSRaTAbjTPLrgTQ) First-ever sighting of a live newborn great

Nearly forgot

on my best of 2023 list, I’d somehow left nonfic off. it’s there now, a month later. and, now need to drop a random image here, to keep this post from disappearing:

The Year of this Locus

I don’t know. It was going to be a clever subject line. Until I wrote it. But? Proud and honored to have a book on their list:

100%

I know X is terrible now—”now,” yes—but every once in a while, you can still find something amazing and perfect and timeless:

Best of 2023

First, a couple of things anybody’d be proud of: NOVEL How about four of them, this year — a very-very good year: COLLECTION COMIC BOOKS PLAY HORROR MOVIE Always a tricky category for me (just wanted to say “gory”), but, my top three, big-like up top and first here, and then all the ones I

All the Pretty Reaper Lists

For the end of another good year. Thanks, all. None of this without all of you. And, apologies in advance: there’s two or three duplicates in here, I think. Having such a hard time ferreting them out, though . . . https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g43689321/best-horror-books-2023/ https://www.powells.com/post/best-books/best-books-of-2023-horror https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/best-horror-2023 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/best-horror-books-2023 https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/fiction/best-horror-books-of-2023 https://ko-fi.com/Post/5-Cool-Books-I-Read-in-2023-D1D1T6D8D The 9 Best Horror Novels of 2023

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A Final Girl is Born

You’d think acclaim or sales would be the highest honor. Turns out? It’s this magic right here:

Coolest clips

For a My Heart is a Chainsaw trailer, in Spain, by La Bilblioteca Carfax: And, if you’re not into clicking on a Musk-site, then: SO much better than what I tried to do back in 2006 or 2007 (“17 years ago”)—same principle, though:

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