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Litsy and ZBO

This may be my favorite of all the Zombie Bake-Off Reviews. It’s my favorite from eight years after it came out, for sure:

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Four years, man

Doesn’t feel like it. To me these stories are stil churning in my head. Thanks, Richard. 

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100 Best Horror

All kinds of cool, getting to help with this poll for NPR:

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Goats and Crabs

Hey, it’s that runaway goat I was writing about it in “Exodus” (check #5 there, say), lo those many years ago:

https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/rogue-goat-may-have-helped-dozens-of-farm-animals-escape/


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Name these critters

Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat:

It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs.

And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon?

Whatever it is, I saw something a lot like it one night in West Texas, eating on a deer carcass: pale, used sort-of hands, sat up on its hind legs. Watched me roll past at thre…

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Old Dreams I Still Have

Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme:

However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies:

Is that not baddest truck? Well, except for this one, which I think is a modified version of that—different wheels and tires, the color scheme kind of made louder:

Anyway, yes, I still do dream about t…

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a Pre-Shark Week Listicle, with Teeth

Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list:

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week

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The Deer & the Owl

Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway:

Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so many injuries, why I’m on so many daily pills in these my creaky years. Doesn’t stop me from collecting more scars and injuries, thoug…

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