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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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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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PKD x 600!

Six HUNDRED Philip K. Dick covers? Amazingcool. My head’s going all Scanners:  

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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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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Just noticing that the old pano of my office at Cutbank, it’s out of date—I’ve gone standing-desk.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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There’s a Story Here

And, there may even be some commentary about story:

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The Trump Way

Just stashing these here so I can remember them: [ other Trump-stuff on site, here: “The Day before the Earth Stood Still“, “Trump” ]

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The Day Before the Earth Stood Still

We’re all holding our breath. For four years. But we’ll lose it a few times, I know, from shouting. We’re going to need a lot of shouting, and a lot of watching. Anyway, there’s hope, too. This is last night: However, we can’t forget that this kind of thing is now happening as well: In Case You Missed It The Senate voted 51 to 48: 1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and aid to rural hospitals. 2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare. 3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent’s insurance till the age of 26. 4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision. 6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal the Affordable Care Act. For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone. Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs. Despite their assertions of this being an action to “repeal and replace,” no viable alternative plan has been proposed. The House votes Friday. As of this moment, no replacement exists.

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The Horror (Study)

Which is to say: where I write. Well, where I write when I’m writing in my study. Where I write when I’m writing in my office (on campus) is here. But, this is home. The door of it, anyway: And this is me standing in the middle of it all, trying to go as fast/slow as the arrow on my phone tells me. And, yes, there’s four five (just saw another) Waylon things in this pano: And, yeah, I clipped off half of the comic book shelf. Oh well. Here’s some of what you couldn’t see—some of my favorites:

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