Odd: the two things that bubbled up in my Twitter feed this morning are both emotional things that don’t require the characters actually speaking. Pretty cool:
Category: music
Slaughter, D-A-D, Skid Row, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Warrant, Ratt, Faster Pussycat, Tesla, Kix, King Kobra, Trixter, Jackyl, Cinderella, Guns n’ Roses, Lita Ford, Bon Jovi, Vixen, Twisted Sister, Steel Dragon, Bang Tango, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, LA Guns, Great White, Whitesnake—these are a few of my favorite things. Which I guess is just another way of saying I was born in 1972, meaning I got my first truck in 87, meaning I had that hair metal volume knob cranked all the w…
Drive Thru (2007) Poster 
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what this is:
last week, maybe the week before, I don’t know, I had a lot to write, so figured to keep myself somewhat on-task by making myself log down what-all was going on. this is that—closing down files, found it off to the side. just added the images and stuff. and, to be sure, this isn’t a success-story week: wrote a lot, but not exactly what I needed to be writing.
Sunday:
done for the moment with The Only Good Indians copyedits, just finished up months and months …
- “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“
- “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“
- “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“
- “skeleton of glass and marmelade“
- “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“
- “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“
- “In Which
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:
- “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“
- “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“
- “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“
- “Why narrating an audiobook is a LOT harder than you think“
- “Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Joi
Over on Spotify. Thanks, Bethany Guerra:
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Some slipped through this time—forgot to copy the URLs across, just closed-tab and went on to the next thing. So: blip, gone. But the thing about the internet is that there’s always more. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been into last few . . . I don’t know, ‘days’ for sure, but also ‘weeks,’ and probably not plural months. But maybe one month, or a month and a half. Just the best, none of the drek:
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