What's your favourite scary movie?
Skyscraper was fully funded and then some. A huge thanks to everyone who pledged to the project. It’s always satisfying to see projects that play with the form (irrespective of whether I’m involved :P ) doing well on Kickstarter. I can’t wait to see this one in the flesh (ink, paper, whatever).
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Project Tokyo is kicking my ass. I’ve pantsed the entire thing for the most part so it’s been subject to multiple drafts and revisions. Needless to say it’s the climax of the story that’s giving me problems as it no longer matches up with the revised beginning. This morning though I had one of those shower thoughts and rushed to get it all down before it vanished back into whatever plane of existence it appeared from.
I think I have it figured out now. Plan is to have this in the hands of alpha/beta readers in the next week before submission.
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Anyway, to the links. All of the links. I’ve cut down on my podcast and RSS feeds recently. As such a lot of cruft has vanished and I’ve been reading a lot more of the kind of things I want to read and/or consume.
Links
Jonathen Lethem puts together a look at Edward Snowden’s new book alongside Jia Tolentino’s new collection Trick Mirror for NYRB. I’ve got the audiobook of Snowden’s book to consume at some point.
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The Joker hot takes are arriving. The Baffler on the vacuity of influence.
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A nice editorial piece from Dread Central with forty contributors chatting briefly about their “in” to the horror movie genre.
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On keeping a writer’s journal.
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The Los Angeles Review of Books interviews one of my favourite writers, Brian Evenson.
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Project Censored has their annual list of the 25 most under-reported stories of last year. The one that caught my eye was this one about Facebook becoming another facet of US/NATO/Western foreign policy.Couple that with Amazon chasing DoD projects. This is fine.
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The Beat have been doing a ‘LOST’ week to celebrate the show being fifteen years old (yes, really). One of my favourite posts was this by Deanna Destito about the show’s conclusion. Haters be damned I’ve always stuck by my love for that ending and it’s nice to see I’m not the only one.
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Halloween approaches and IndieWire published a list of what it thinks are the 100 Best Horror Movies ever made.
Couple that with the feature they did on Tarantino, Del Toro and others discussing their favourite horror movies.
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I missed this one the first time around but here is Matt Zoller Seitz on Elmore Leonard and his writing.
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A thoughtful piece on Destiny 2, anxiety, mental health and how systems within a video game can trigger the former.
Staying on game design PC Gamer has a [piece])https://www.pcgamer.com/the-story-behind-liberty-island-deus-exs-most-iconic-level/) on one of my favourite levels of all time in a video game - Libery Island in Deus Ex.
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Justin McBride’s op-ed piece at Truthout aruges that we are not in the sixth extinction but the first extermination event as late stage capitalism locks us all in a death struggle.
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Fight Club is 20 years old which means 20 years of white dudes misinterpreting the core message of the movie (young me included). That said, this take from The Quietus* is refreshing and interesting.
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I’m always Team Lindelof. Jury is out on his new Watchmen series (with some good reviews for the episodes released to critics) but this interview at Vulture is pretty great.
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I managed to get this out early so I’m off to fill the rest of my weekend with all the stuff I usually forget to do. See you in two!