Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 208
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July 26, 2018
Name these critters
Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat:
It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs.
And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon?
Whatever it is, I saw something a lot like it one night in West Texas, eating on a deer carcass: pale, used sort-of hands, sat up on its hind legs. Watched me roll past at th…
July 25, 2018
Old Dreams I Still Have
Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme:
However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies:
Is that not baddest truck? Well, except for this one, which I think is a modified version of that—different wheels and tires, the color scheme kind of made louder:
Anyway, yes, I still do dream abou…
Clarion West
Anybody needs me next summer roundabout the end of June, I’m up in Seattle, teaching at Clarion West for the . . . let me see, let me see: third time :
Announcing the Clarion West Summer Workshop instructors for 2019
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World Fantasy Awards
Wow, Mapping the Interior‘s a finalist. So cool:
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July 24, 2018
My Kind of Party
That being Buster’s ‘Welcome home from jail!’ party from ep.5 of the new/current season of Arrested Development, where all the food is limited (“limited”) by his limited palate:
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July 23, 2018
a Pre-Shark Week Listicle, with Teeth
Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list:
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The Deer & the Owl
Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway:
Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ
— Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018
Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so many injuries, why I’m on so many daily pills in these my creaky years. Doesn’t stop me from collecting more scars and injuries, tho…
July 20, 2018
Suspended in Dusk II
The hard copies arrive. Very cool. “Love is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching” is in here. Cute little story about teenage love, and all that comes after.
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