Best Reads from Lately
https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/blog/2021/5/10/mondays-are-for-meat https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/plots-of-nineteen-eighties-movies-if-their-protagonists-had-been-people-of-color? https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-restore-tribal-homelands-empower-tribal-governments?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.j99aVdSc9J0mr_qnnXtFrzw.rjEmfyN2NVEeTturveXAKRg.lOA4YBVrIrUyAoLPdUjY2nQ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/22/john-steinbecks-estate-urged-to-let-the-world-read-his-shunned-werewolf-novel https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/they-came-they-sawed/ https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/black-cowboys.htm https://www.gq.com/story/johnny-knoxvilles-last-rodeo https://thedaddest.com/trending/turn-texts-fb/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01429-6
Wow, TWO Bram Stoker Awards last night!
Was honored just to be considered alongside such fine writers, such solid books. Floored to have lucked out in both categories: Or, both in one post, WITH a sneak peek at a certain special edition German cover:
Chainsaw reviews
Just noticed that, when turning the Chainsaw page into a Chainsaw POST, so the formatting of this new theme wouldn’t fry, I somehow deleted all the reviews I’d been linking over there. So, recovered some, probably lost some, but, the good thing is: maybe found some new ones? Here:
Thing I Did to/on Cons (conventions, conference, fests…)
Open Letter to Cons From the Indians No Longer in the Background of a John Wayne Movie | Tor.com
Best Reads from Lately
50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know – Uncanny Magazine Carpenter, Jennifer (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) The unique problems facing Native American youths in the criminal justice system. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/05/archaeologists-uncover-oldest-human-burial-in-africa https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995214254/an-extraordinary-discovery-archeologists-find-neanderthal-remains-in-cave-near-r http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring21/page39.html Humans Are the Scariest Predator – The Atlantic https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/when-will-klay-thompson-return-injury-we-analyze-impact-golden-state-warriors-star-s-absence-team https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/26/frightening-history-halloween-haunted-houses/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-studies-and-the-possibility-of-alien-origin/ https://www.alanbaxteronline.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-manure-to-grow-a-few-good-roses/ https://time.com/6047779/colson-whitehead-margaret-atwood/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/george-saunderss-humor https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-02/texas-horned-lizard-animal-conservation-oklahoma https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/fossil-find-california-ebmud-mastodon-bones-16192070.php https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/20/william-shatner-interview-love-loss-and-leonard-nimoy
Memorial Ride Sampler
Check it: cool little flip book PDF for Memorial Ride (also here). Coming at you live from UNM in the land of October: [3d-flip-book mode=”fullscreen” id=”17483″][/3d-flip-book]
Signed Books
Boulder Bookstore’s now carrying all my backstock they can get their hands on, and I’ll be swinging by now and then to scratch my name in them, and maybe yours too:
Birdlandia
This being just ridiculous stuff I stumble onto on Twitter, and kind of want to save . . . but probably not enough to actually bookmark them:
/End new construction zone
Which is to say: all those Pages I had to turn into Posts, that automatically feed into this space (four of them, I think), this should be the end of that. Unless, of course, I find some more that the new theme doesn’t play nice with. And, hopefully-hopefully I adjusted all the sluglines/URLs such that
Brief mess-up
I hope? Just noticing that, since I updated themes, some of the bookpages are formatting oddly (Chainsaw, Mannequins, Memorial Ride, “Wait for Night”—all the recent stuff). Can’t figure why . . . yet. I think it might have to do with them being Pages instead of Posts (here in WordPress). Will investigate when I have