slashers
Halloween 2023
Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages: Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?
Best reads from lately
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana Enríquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian
Best Reads from Lately
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 Here’s How One Angry Parent Got All Graphic Novels Pulled From a School District https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-little-engine-that-could-but-chose-not-to https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/04/06/orangutan-breastfeeding-101-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn Goujian: The Ancient Chinese Sword that Defied Time | Ancient Origins https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-woman-lake-jeep-17890787.php Why is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? (Hint: Vikings!) | Smart
Few book-type links
https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-favorite-scream-queen https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-with-hope https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week
Book link grab bag:
https://the-line-up.com/7-violent-books-that-remind-us-of-our-favorite-slasher-films https://rue-morgue.com/guest-post-author-ronald-kellys-ten-creature-feature-books-for-frightful-halloween-reading/ https://the-line-up.com/werewolf-horror-stories https://www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Backlist-Coming-of-Age-Horror-/pid=9769004?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=3nie8 https://www.audible.com/blog/article-audiobooks-for-horror-movie-fans https://the-line-up.com/underrated-psychological-horror-books
So many book links (lists, reviews, etc)
Wish I could embed them all, but some of them are going to be links, I’d guess: http://litlists.blogspot.com/2022/09/ten-quietly-effective-suspense-novels.html Western Horror – Mystery and Suspense Magazine October & November Reads – Bookshop.org https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/4-must-read-horror-books-for-slasher-film-fans https://www.polygon.com/2022/9/9/23341203/new-comics-2022-fall-preview https://previewsworld.com/Article/264444-Start-Here-Five-New-Comics-for-October-5 https://www.whichbook.net/book/12706/The-Only-Good-Indians-Stephen-Graham-Jones/ https://justaword.fr/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort-465314f8dc4e https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/435387/the-babysitter-lives-review-a-fun-and-scary-reinvention-of-familiar-horrors/ https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Babysitter-Lives-Jones-Stephen-Graham/pid=9768294?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=Hm3b8 https://ryanthomaslabee.com/blog/the-babysitter-lives-a-review
Best Reads from Lately
Biden to appoint first Native American treasurer of the United States – CNNPolitics Honey Badger vs Wolverine Fight: Who Would Win? https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2022/06/15/indigenous-scholar-investigates-changing-relationship-fish-people https://www.archaeology.org/issues/474-2207/digs/10606-digs-texas-pecos-speech-breath https://apple.news/AmPNwOjScQAqRS949XuAuhA https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10951119/Most-complete-baby-mammoth-North-America-FOUND.html https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mystery-rocket-NASA-moon-crash-country-origin-17273903.php https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbz7/new-dinosaur-meraxes-gigas-argentina Pope Francis went to Canada to apologize. For some indigenous school survivors, he triggered more pain | CNN https://mashable.com/article/greenland-shark-discovered-caribbean/ Tonina Sun Temple ‘Cave Of Death’ Holds Balls Of
Birdlandia
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/alligator-gar-bayou-catch-17162146.php
So many cool links
Reviews, news—if it’s fit to print, maybe it’s here: So honored to be sneaking into Paula Guran’s annual: New audio version of an old collection: Wrote the foreword: Coming soon: Pretty cool little animation: Think I’ve seen this before, but I can’t see it enough, either: Got a Chainsaw book in this race: All the
Best reads from lately
https://aftershockcomics.com/2020/05/how-a-former-daily-show-writer-crafted-a-slasher-comic/ https://www.archaeology.org/issues/60-1301/trenches/314-chajul-guatemala-dance-conquest https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/maus Leatherface is Canceled in New TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Trailer – Fangoria East And West Coast Butter Is Different, And We’ve All Been Living A Lie | HuffPost Life https://www.boredpanda.com/sarcastic-quotes/ ‘Near Dark’ Is A Uniquely American Masterpiece Of An Unheralded Cinematic Subgenre: The Vampire Neo-Western | Decider Unknown space object beams out radio