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Alka-Wolf

Had no idea:

My thing is why even be excited about new commercials when Guillermo del Toro already became a werewolf for Alka Seltzer back in 1991? pic.twitter.com/sINmnfaZ4s

— John Squires (@FreddyInSpace) February 4, 2019

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SyFy’s Seven Werewolf Movies

Of course I have slightly different choices/emphases—that’s part of the fun of making lists: they’re always unique to you, and always and definitely “right”—but, man, I really dig the stills they cycled through for this:

their whole write-up, in case the video blinks to “unavailable” (the video IS embedded there, and is on YouTube here)

As for my, say, top THREE, it’d be more like, in this order from left t…

Best of the 2019 Months

Usually don’t put words in these, but this is the first for the year, and this year’s going to look different. Not just the running title (different titles make them easier to search), but how movie and tv heavy these’ll all likely be for at least the first half of the year. Because? Reading for the World Fantasy Awards, but shouldn’t really be saying what’s my favorite books and stories and novellas and whatnot. Result: movie and tv heavy best-…

Mythic Dream

Cool TOC to be in:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/myths-made-modern-announcing-the-mythic-dream-a-new-anthology-from-the-creators-of-the-starlit-wood/ …

Noveling the Novella

Oh, man, this thing I’m writing, it’s one word away from clicking over into official novel land. And it’s almost two-thirds done, maybe, hopefully:

Would jam through to the end in a few days, but I got a script-thing and a story on February deadline, and, I mean, February is coming up pretty fast . . .

And, for kicks and grins, here’s the playlist I’m cueing up many times a day, since . . . I don’t know: January second, it maybe was? Somewhere a…

Cleaned up the story links

Needed to find a story for somebody, made a wrong click, stumbled into a dead link, and found that, over the last three or four months, man, a lot of those story links have quit going anywhere good. Apologies for that. I miss “Bestiary” being out there, readable. And, goodbye to “Hemingway Hills in the Afternoon,” a story I wrote in the late nineties, I think, about a new puppy we’d just got, and would have for thirteen years. “The Ones who G…

Galaga Riser DIY / How-to

Which, before I get into it, let me say: I’m the last dude who should ever do a how-to on anything, except maybe writing a novel or a story. But maybe not even that. However, got one of those 3/4 scale 1-Up Galaga machines for Christmas, and of course love love love it. However? I’m six-plus feet tall, so this of course doesn’t quite work:

( basketball artfully included for size comparison )

Anyway, a quick search of YouTube showed there’s plenty of heigh…

Can I vote in this?

Is there such thing as too much @SGJ72? pic.twitter.com/C505MnnbIa

— Austin James (@AusJamesWriter) January 15, 2019

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So cool to look back

The “Though it hasn’t yet posted a profit” part is maybe the best, here, though “electronic mail” and “cellular phone” are pretty fun too:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB832204437381952500

Crazy, too, remembering how revolutionary this was, once upon a time. The world was changing with each word he said, yes?

( this is good to watch just to know how to present, too )

Too, of course, Bowie saw it all coming:

David, this inter

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Midland, TX, via Hollywood

I mean, really, except for the contour of the land and the vivid green everywhere and the way the people wear their jeans and boots, the fifth season of Monk pretty much nailed where I grew up:

there are horses, I mean. and these are horses…