Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 163
April 24, 2020
Dame’s Dagger
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young, Kobe, Laettner, Kawhi’s from last year—this one’s better than them all, I think. And Damien Lillard just walks away like “What else could have happened?” ThatR…
April 23, 2020
Pages Help?
Anybody have a workaround?
tried stuffing this on YouTube, but both the MOV and the MP4 of it went blurry. and of course it’s too big for Twitter. so, here, though this player doesn’t seem to have a full-screen option, sorry. …
Best Reads from Lately
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…):
Land O’Lakes quietly gets rid of iconic Indian maiden mascot
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string
The Black T-Shirt Crowd
Honored to have a yellow book in this stack:
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Favorite stuff from birdland lately
no rhyme, less reason — wouldn’t be social media if there were, right?
Keith Urban sold his soul to the fucking devil for all the skills and magic. pic.twitter.com/pQBVS0pa9I
— Crinston (@fortylittleking) April 19, 2020
"So I thought to myself, 'Well I guess I got to bail Michael [Jordan] out again.'"
Steve Kerr's version of his game-winner in the 1997 Finals is hilarious
Mysterious Galaxy!
Great time was had by . . . well, by us, anyway, but presumably, hopefully, by others as well (tweetlink below).
Do they dig the falling apart or the aftermath….
— TNBBC (@TNBBC) April 23, 2020
Watching @paulGtremblay @almakatsu and @SGJ72 discuss "The End if Only the Beginning" on facebook livehttps://t.co/NAtq2gpGIB pic.twitter.com/53u0TT2rEF
as you can tell, we were instructed not to smile. the consequences would have been severe
…Missed las
April 22, 2020
More elky reviews
Armed With a Book:
https://www.armedwithabook.com/the-only-good-indians/And, there’s always Goodreads reviews rolling in, but Bethany’s is extra special cool (as, I’m sure, is she):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3271921345…
April 19, 2020
Unrevised
Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it:
—SGJ
The biggest lie I tell myself about revising is that I do it as I go. You’ve heard this, right? I don’t think I’m coming up with anything new here, anyway. And, it’s a seductive thing to believe-to want to believe, at least. And th…
April 17, 2020
Three more elky reviews
First at Cravenwild:
https://cravenwild.com/2020/03/25/the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones/and What Jess Reads:
https://whatjessreadsblog.com/2020/04/13/book-review-the-only-good-indians/and HauntedMTL:
https://hauntedmtl.com/horror-in-print/now-july-release-the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones/…
