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December 3, 2018
Caves. Caves Caves Caves Caves CAVES
Here’s hoping a Neanderthal fingerbone or a Denisovan tooth turns up a few strata down. It’s how the world changes. Well, it’s how our perception and understanding of the world changes. Couldn’t be more excited. Would so, so be into ducking down into this one. Except, it’s big enough that no ducking’s required, looks like:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-cave-bc-canadas-biggest-cave-1.4929918…
December 1, 2018
Happiness
you really had to respect him though https://t.co/tcSerc9OGM pic.twitter.com/hML5gN6K6j
— matt lubchansky (@Lubchansky) April 23, 2018
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December Nightmare
Always cool to be in Nightmare’s TOC. Even cooler when it’s with people I know (Gemma, Carrie—only know Adam by reading):
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Best of 2018 so far—the December roundup
tthat “Herpes of the Heart” story: http://the-toast.net/2015/05/29/herpes-heart-short-story/that comic strip: http://overcompensating.com/oc/index.php?comic=1243 …
November 30, 2018
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November 28, 2018
SpongeGar
Remember when Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died, and, the picture on his site was just that birdcage he’d doodled, open and empty? Broke my heart and fixed it with a single image. Same here:
thank you for a wonderful childhood Stephen Hillenburg pic.twitter.com/p1PRwnHW8h
— Cy ⛈⚡⛈⚡ (@cerealkidman) November 27, 2018
I just wrote a haunted house novel that used a SpongeBob episode kind of as touchstone. SpongeBob, man, he’s deep in my DNA, somehow. …
November 27, 2018
WLA
I’m there in 2020, LA. Distinguished Achievement Award. So cool, such an honor:
Also, a cool year-plus before that, I’m keynoting at LSU’s Mardi Gras Conference in February, here. Then over summer I’m . . . let’s see: teaching the second week of Clarion West, GoH’ing at ReaderCon. Oh: and I’m planning to be at StokerCon as well. Probably in April, I’d guess. Doing a visit down at:
Without looking, I think this is in . . . Apri…
November 25, 2018
Favorite Horror Movies
By category, sub-genre, branch, type—whatever’s under “Horror” and’s on the movie shelf, and not getting too granular. But, “15,” right? I know. I tried to keep it to a properly spooky “13,” but things happen. Though, if you take #11 and #15 out (which would shatter me), as they’re not really ‘categories’—”Scariest,” “Perfect”—then this does slide in more like …
November 23, 2018
Busiek on making comics
His stuff’s always good to read. Guess this is one reason why: the attention, the do-overs, the insistence on getting it right. We should all be so conscientious, and so articulate about the process. And, I think you have to click on this (the bird-icon works, the arrow-out works) to go to Twitter to read the actual thread? I don’t know . . . once I did SOMEthing where the whole thread embedded, but I haven’t lucked onto that for many a post. So, a launch point i…
