Can I vote in this?
( the question is “Is there such a thing as too much @SGJ72?” )
So cool to look back
The “Though it hasn’t yet posted a profit” part is maybe the best, here, though “electronic mail” and “cellular phone” are pretty fun too: Crazy, too, remembering how revolutionary this was, once upon a time. The world was changing with each word he said, yes? Too, of course, Bowie saw it all coming:
Midland, TX, via Hollywood
I mean, really, except for the contour of the land and the vivid green everywhere and the way the people wear their jeans and boots, the fifth season of Monk pretty much nailed where I grew up:
The Magic of Comics
I love finding panels and pages and tricks and storytelling that only works on the comic book page, then throwing it up on the screen for my students. Panels and pages like these:
Pumpjacks
Man, West Texas on The Simpsons, after, what? Thirty years? Worth the wait: Now I just need to composite this ancient-old “Simpsons yourself” trick into that pasture and it’ll be like I’m a real guest star:
Making a list and checking it twice
I assume: Cedar Hollow’s year-end best-of. Honored to have a certain yellow book included:
Chuckywolf
Just wanted to say that, really. But, to be more precise: excellent stack of books to be in:
Best Articles from . . . Lately
Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately: “Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials“ “Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook“ “What
Best of 2018
Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy,
Soon to be 47
Every time I go to stand up or lift something and I feel all creaky and broken, I think back to all this, and remember how much I prefer groany creaks and leftover breaks to stitches and recovery and PT: I keep these handy/on my phone, so that I won’t get lured into a pickup