Category: music

Once again, I let this get to be an unwieldy enough stack of links/reads that to slow down and make them into a pretty and proper list would keep me from revising the novel I’m revising. So, in all their likely awkwardness, with apologies for some embedding, some being URLS, some shuddering into some completely new and unlikely form, here’s my best reads from . . . lately:

https://elemental.medium.com/science-confirms-that-the-vagus-nerve-is-key-to-wel…

Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and including stuff I only FOUND in 2019, and just going plural for some instead of staging ties:

NOVELS

HORROR MOVIE

This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the weirdlookingness, and the occasional bulletpoint for what would seem to be no reason, but really that’s the only way to keep the link from trying, and …

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:

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…

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