Category: movies/tv

wow, THIS in Drafts as well. looks like it’s what I meant to by my Best of 2018, but then forgot I’d started it, so did it all over.

Novel: The Outsider

NF: Atlas of a Lost World, Close Encounters with Humankind, The Neanderthals Rediscovered 

Non-Horror Movie: The Rider 

Slasher: The Strangers: Prey at Night, with all good nods to Halloween (link)

Zombie: Overlord

Horror-Comedy: Mayhem, with Mom and Dad right on its heels

Subtitled Horror that…

Excerpts from AI-Written Rom-Coms That Prove Human Writers Are Obsolete – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-overlapped-shared-culture-western-europe

https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679

https://willchristopherbaer.substack.com/p/move-37

300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found

Network of ancient Maya …

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/word-processing-exclamation-mark-1.6795166

The Matawan Man-eater: The real-life inspiration for Jaws

Blackfeet/Niimíipuu actress Lily Gladstone on the verge of stardom

He…

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-retrospect-the-theme-for-chads-4th-birthday-party-should-not-have-been-stanford-prison-experiment (https://twitter.com/mcsweeneys/status/1632929056978001920?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA)

Jenna Ortega Changed Wednesday Scripts: ‘The Character Made No Sense’ – Variety

Researchers Examine 3,500-Year-Old Brown Bear Preserved in Siberian Permafrost | Smart News| Smit…

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-2-1235507813/

Who made the first stone tools? Discovery sheds light on mystery | CNN

https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com…

(was on tour for a couple weeks this short-short month, so was imbibing media at a much slower rate . . . )

This probably won’t embed—it’s Instagram—but hopefully it’ll link, anyway. And, I seem to have screen capped this during the one second in the recording I’m holding Reaper up:

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Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider

https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/

https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party

Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365

Amateur archaeologist unco…