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Sometimes a Cool Thing Happens

and it’s shaped like a book, one I’d never have guessed could be real. Thanks so much to Billy J. Stratton and all the contributors. Honored. Amazing. So cool. Clickable here.

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Demon Theory gif

( for those with the eyes to see . . . )

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Happiness is :

Over the many years since I got online, these are the six absolute best things I’ve found. When I need to be happy and don’t have a slurpee, I just click here, and all’s well:

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So, I’m Kind of Still and Always Head Over Heels for Scream

A Letter from SCREAM’s Maureen Prescott to Her Daughter Sidney

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My Hero

What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you’d give him the perfect words to say. And then it didn’t just happen, there’s even action figures now. Your comic book is on every shelf. And you live beside your best friend again. Your kids even play together, with those action figures. Watch them on the lawn, there. Take a snapshot, and then look over their heads, over the tops of the houses, past the city, past the world itself. Look at all the stars, at all the adventures waiting out there. What do you do when all your dreams come true? You close your eyes, so the dream can last. You close your eyes and you roll your hands into fists, and you try to hold on. Illustrated by Aaron Lovett. Which is to say: it’s a comic book. Letters by Sean Sapp, Kathryn S. Renta and Joshua Viola Summer 2017 Hex Publishers

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Indigenous Comic Con #1!

With no variant covers! What you saw was what you got: [ wish I knew who drew this like it was nothing, when, actually, it’s everything ] You know George RR Martin tells that story of having the first ticket to the first comic con? That’s how getting to be a guest here feels to me: like a new, excellent thing is happening. So many cool people—creators, readers, fans, cosplayers, 1491s, friends, food trucks, movies, green chile every other breath—and so many excellent books to be buying: And somehow I forgot to put Jay Odjick in that array. Let me fix that here: And I think I have a couple more scattered around the house, in the usual reading places. Probably with melty ice tea sitting on them, as I never take as good care of comics as comics has taken care of me, all these years. Was cool being on a panel with Elizabeth LaPensee, too. Last time we were in front of people talking it was . . . for Al Jazeera TV, I think. And thanks to the Twitter people who thought to post these pics (Cassandra, Oxlabs). And I may be wearing a Denver Comic Con shirt there. And a necklace I bought for two dollars in the women’s part of the Goodwill. Also, one of those books up there, it’s Elizabeth’s. While I’m stealing pics, too, let me nab one from Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: That conventional hall floor? Every table with more amazing merch than the last table? Every person I brush shoulders  . . . → → →

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James Welch

is still James Welch, but now he’s also a Google Doodle. So, so cool, the whole searching world seeing a Blackfeet face when a new tab opens. I vote we keep this one for a while:

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Trump

I’m going to start this out in a way I’ve never felt I had to start anything out online: this is just me, talking. Not for any of the schools I teach at, any organizations I’m in. Just me, on my personal site. Check the URL up there: it’s my name, one of my book titles. There’s no corporate or university brands or endorsements or intended associations or anything here. Just me and me alone. Why I’m doing that? Because I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. In a climate of fascism, the elite guards, they can come disappear you. Sometimes physically, sometimes professionally. And, I mean, my people, we’ve got a bad history with being scooped up, having our hair cut, our tongues cut out, our lands taken away. However? We’re still here. Anyway, I guess I should be pasting up images of Trump from They Live, from Back to the Future II, all that, or all those dummied-up images of him in Nazi gear, but I just don’t have the heart, really. Or, I don’t have the . . . I don’t know what to call it, exactly: I don’t feel like it’s going to make me smile. Not anymore. For a long time, Philip K. Dick’s been my bar-none favorite writer of all time. Not for his prose stylings—there’s none—and not solely for his paranoia, his nested narratives, his bootstrap-imagination that comes up with whatever’s needed for this scene. No, it’s his sincerity. Every line I read from him, I  . . . → → →

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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXII

Just wrapped the extras and okayed the cover and all the rest for the trade paperback of Mongrels, in January. So, seems a good time to stack all these in one place—way too tall a stack, I know. But it’s been a busy last few weeks, so I’ve just been letting them build and build. But, first, in case you’re just now tuning here, here’s all what came before, which rhymes nicely with: the Wolves of Yore one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one   And here we go: I too will forever be keeping these three, or four, or five close to my heart. Thank you. Oh, while of course I’d hope never to kill a career—don’t think I could, Craig’s—I’m happy for the read(s):   Since it’s hard to click on that screencap, I’ll put the link it’s supposed to go to here. Also, this is of course a sentiment I share: Adapt This! Stephen Graham Jones’ Mongrels (2016)   And? I can’t guarantee this is the first time I’ve stole this line, either. I know there’s some of that song in The Fast Red Road: And Litsy. Thanks, always, Litsy, and, thanks, Karkar, too:     Wow, thanks: Was cool seeing Mongrels all spooked up for the season: And, always dig being on the wall at Tattered Cover: Always cool being at Litsy, too:   And, yeah, no actual yellow book in this. But there is me. And  . . . → → →

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Halloween Gifs

These are the two I can watch for pretty much ever, I suspect:  

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