Category: movies/tv

Ridiculous: solely because of this fun thread, I suspect, this weekend while I was laid up with a three-day fever and a cough I thought would hollow me out completely, leave nothing but a husk of a dude behind, I ended up putting in the extended edition of Fellowship. Still good as ever (though, first time I saw it, Boromir wasn’t Eddard Stark…), and now I have to find like eight hours to finish the trilogy. But it’ll be worth it. Again.

When you core down deep enough into Demon Theory, this is what you find for a beating heart:

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Because I likely won’t remember to give attribution for each link, I’ll just say it here: probably three-quarters of these paleo type links are from a friend, Joe Lansdale (and all the Apple ones are from my wife). Just, don’t want to pretend I have my thumb on all the good pulses. Rather, I know people with those thumbs. Anyway, on with the reads, starting with the longer stuff:

• “Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neande

Or just the best acting?

Usually don’t put words in these, but this is the first for the year, and this year’s going to look different. Not just the running title (different titles make them easier to search), but how movie and tv heavy these’ll all likely be for at least the first half of the year. Because? Reading for the World Fantasy Awards, but shouldn’t really be saying what’s my favorite books and stories and novellas and whatnot. Result: movie and tv heavy best-…

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:

Duane Jones, Ben, AND this gif are all supercool:

I mean, saw a handful of these, but I need to see them all:

Never done one, dug the movie, it kicked these up in my head:

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 Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary“
• “How Horror Changed Aft