Recently: 26 March
26 March 2023
Links
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Courtney Love has some things to say about the lack of women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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“The originality in a narrative comes from you, the author, the artist. The originality comes out in the execution. It is there in the effort.” Writer Chuck Wendig on AI and the fetishization of ideas.
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Chicago journalist Robert Loerzel begins a series of website posts on the history of one of Chicago’s gems, the Green Mill jazz club.
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A lovely microdocumentary about a Japanese man refusing to let a local cinema die.
Reading/Watching/Listening
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I’m in progress with Stephen Graham Jones’s Don’t Fear the Reaper. No surprises here that it’s great. Jones really kills with endings, though, so let’s see where this one ends up.
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I’m also in progress on How To Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. This strikes me as a bit different from Hendrix’s earlier books, in a way I like. It’s a little more psychological and a little more surprising.
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I watched The 12th Victim on Hulu. It’s uneven as a documentary, but as a reclamation of Caril Ann Fugate’s perspective, it’s a triumph. Even if you think you know all there is to know about the Starkweather killings, or especially if you think you know all there is to know: this is worth watching.
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New Lana, folks.