Feel like I’m posting this too early, as I might get blown away by some movie X over the next five days. But I’ve got ten minutes right now, can get these down and in order, I think—with the caveat that I’ve yet to see Hounds of Love or Raw or Prevenge or Super Dark
Hey, the audiobook of Mongrels is in Audible’s 2-for-1 sale for the next few days, looks like: Click here for it
Story called “Alis” in the obvious one, and a story about this demon Asmodeus in the other: And, a certain homo naledi story off mine lucked into this: https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/webs-best-science-fiction-1-2017-stories/ And, here’s a cool write-up of “Universal Horror”: https://nicklasalla.blogspot.com/2017/12/its-at-the-front-door-review-of-universal-horror-stephen-graham-jones.html
I mean, first, yeah, loved it, clapped at the end, c’mon: of course. Best part? All the younguns in the audience laughing and talking to the screen. New hope indeed. Second, couple of good links: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/12/18/the-last-jedi-a-mirror-slowly-cracking/ https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-list-of-some-of-the-times-the-last-jedi-told-the-olde-1821396631?
You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Review-of-Last-Final-Girl-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/434/1144 Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: “Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart
New interview up: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/interviews/stephenjones
Check it out: So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows
This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was
I know, I know: this ever really HAPPENED? Apparently so. This isn’t some Mandela Effect thing, and we’re nowhere near April. Not sure how I never knew about this, but glad I do know. And, yeah, the song here’s maybe a little guitar-shy, but still, the video’s nothing but fun: I found it in this
This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago in southwest France. Since its discovery in 1894, there has been much debate about the sex and whether he/she is
This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I
I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me, and one I’m asking for every day, pretty much. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions
I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off the throttle more than I should. Way back, when instant-messaging first came around? I used to write chat scripts to talk to different hardly-remote people,
Not that industrial rock (if that’s that term) album that turned up a while back, but a different arrangement (not sure about that word either) of a song I really thought I knew. It’s like that slowed-down “Born in the USA”—you hear the song all over again for the first time. Pretty excellent. And? Back
I forget who says it, but a while back someone was talking about how the good singers and musicians and actors, they can always do pitch-perfect impressions of their contemporaries. Maybe comedians too? Bet so. Actors, of course. Anyway, just stumbling upon this, from the year I was born. Merle, man, he so had everybody
https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Least-of-My-Scars-Audiobook/B07611B9SF/
Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read: [ photo: Catherine Spader ] Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but
In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:
This shot of Bruce the shark about to eat little Alex Kintner in #JAWS was cut from the film. pic.twitter.com/TpFXQAsn7Y — Stan Winston School (@SWinstonSchool) November 7, 2017
Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes
Very cool, what Boden’s doing. You know him from the covers of Three Miles Past and Sterling City:
So cool to see this sticker on a truck I used to have (a truck that I left in a field for a few years, but that now lives in the magazines): I’ll just leave this here for @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/ixGnP3PLNK — Constantino Martinez (@TinoBeano) November 5, 2017
Home invasion done the Wes Anderson way. I’d somehow missed this, until the SNL Halloween special. Can’t embed the video, but I can link it, anyway.
Been years since I’ve seen one of these. Thanks, Michael McCarty: https://monstermikeyaauthor.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/demon-theory-by-stephen-graham-jones-book-review/
