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February 18, 2017
Los Angeles and Werewolves
Man, been nine months since Mongrels went live, and it’s still getting words. Like these, over at LARB: “One of Them Now: Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels“ And, those nine months ago, of course, LA Times was already on the yellow book: “The Wild Boy Wants his Fangs“ Honored. Thanks, Kristina Baudemann (LARB) and Steph Cha (LAT). And, any post with Mongrels in it is a good-enough excuse to post a werewolf gif:
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February 12, 2017
2017 NecronomiCon GoH Spread o’ Sketches
Top row: Nnedi Okorafor, Kij Johnson, Steven J. Mariconda and Peter Straub Bottom row: some dude, Ellen Datlow, Richard Stanley and John Jude Palencar Artist: Michael Bukowski
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February 6, 2017
Bookbar, via Facebook
They are here. And I’ll be back. And, another video (interview) coming, from/with them.
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Lovecraft eZine
Whilst Lady Gaga did her thing at the superbowl, I was hanging out here with Lovecraft eZine:
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February 3, 2017
Best of the Year so far: the February Post
Getting to a few of these kind of the year-after. But, man, they’re no less excellent for it:
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January 29, 2017
PKD x 600!
Six HUNDRED Philip K. Dick covers? Amazingcool. My head’s going all Scanners:
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January 27, 2017
Landis, Cronenberg, Carpenter, and Garris
This may turn out to be the absolute coolest thing I see all year. Not just these four in a single conversation, these four all talking WHEN they’re talking.
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January 26, 2017
The Horror (office)
Just noticing that the old pano of my office at Cutbank, it’s out of date—I’ve gone standing-desk. But there’s some Q&A there, still, that’s not here. Anyway, to update, with TWO panoramics, as I can’t seem to spin slow/fast enough to do it with just one: Yeah, I think I suck at keeping the phone at the same level/height. So it goes. But that’s me standing over in the middle. Here’s what I usually see, rice bars and basketballs and Chris Ware and all: And here’s what everybody in the halls sees—my phone won’t get high-res enough to make it actually seeable, so I took four pics instead. There’s some overlap. Click each image to Whatasize it: And? I have strong suspicions that my tape-job keeping all that up is doomed to fail. There’s eight years of tape on there, I mean, layer upon dried-up layer, and my office is right by the door to outside, meaning there’s temperature changes and wind and who knows what-all trying to seduce all this groundward. It will, at some point, all calve off, and then get swept up by the night crew. At which point I’ll just have these four pics. And then I get to start all over again. Oh, and that zombie face lower right, that’s me, via Stan Yan. And the poster behind it all used to be District 9. I guess it probably still is?
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Books I’ve Read Over and Over
Just finished rereading my favorite book of 2016, Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and I realized I’m kind of getting a shelf together, of books I come back to again and again. Books I can’t stay away from. Books that just hold more and more magic for me, each time through. I’ve heard that’s one definition of ‘literary’: a text that will keep unfolding and unfolding, the longer you look into it. I’d also add that, a really good novel, it can’t be spoiled, because its quality isn’t completely dependent upon its secret, its big reveal, on whodunnit. Corny as it sounds, it’s the journey, not the destination, yeah? Here’s my stack of books I’ve been journeying through for years, and will be journeying through for many more. I’ll put them in some semblance of order, starting at the top with stuff I used to read over and over, ending, I guess, with what I just reread, and trying not to include stuff I only reread because I was teaching it. Not that I haven’t taught a lot of these. But that was just an excuse to read them again. And, before getting into the big list, let me first put two here that I lived inside, as a kid. Seriously. The Reader’s Digest one, I’ve only found two other people who share my obsession with it (I probably shouldn’t name them), and the other . . . I don’t know. Reading it is like singing along with Neil Diamond’s “Coming to America,” to me: . . . → → →
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January 24, 2017
There’s a Story Here
And, there may even be some commentary about story:
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