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"Straight Edge Kegger" (2019) Directed by Jason Zink (Horror/Thriller)

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MUSIC AND HORROR WITH DIRECTOR Jason Zink! Reel Vile Podcast is here! Continue hearing some fantastic folks talk horror, and hear the discussion on punk rock and heavy metal in genre films!

Watch now on YouTube

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KATY PERRY BY JASON ODELL FOR ZINK MAGAZINE, 2008

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Straight Edge Kegger" dives into the underbelly of the punk subculture with a raw and unapologetic intensity. Directed by Jason Zink, this indie film offers a frenetic ride through the world of hardcore punk and the often misunderstood straight edge movement.

The story follows a young punk named Brad, played convincingly by Corey Kays, who finds himself entangled in a chaotic series of events after attending a straight edge house party. What starts as a seemingly innocent gathering quickly spirals into a night of violence and mayhem, as tensions rise and allegiances are tested.

Zink's direction is unrelenting, capturing the energy and aggression of the punk scene with gritty authenticity. The film's DIY aesthetic adds to its punk ethos, creating an immersive experience that feels both urgent and visceral.

While "Straight Edge Kegger" explores themes of identity, rebellion, and the consequences of extremism, it also doesn't shy away from the darker aspects of the punk lifestyle. The violence portrayed is graphic and unapologetic, serving as a stark reminder of the destructive potential that lies within any subculture. Though it may not be everyone's cup of tea, for fans of punk and gritty independent cinema, it's an exhilarating ride that demands to be seen.

Rating: ★★★

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Post 0202

Pierce Langewisch, Colorado inmate 191654, born 1998, incarceration intake July 2021 at age 23, parole eligible February 2042, with full release at February 2066.

Murder

Attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer, Possession of a weapon by a previous offender.  Fired several shots at Douglas County sheriff's deputies during a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle.

In the early morning hours of Nov. 27, 2018 a chase involving a stolen vehicle and authorities took place in Douglas County. The end result, one person was killed and two others were sentenced to prison.

The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office shared the details on the sentencing for Peirce Langewisch. According to the district attorney’s office, Langewisch was the man who fired shots at deputies during the chase. It started at about 3 a.m. when deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spotted a possible stolen vehicle that ran a red light. The deputies followed the vehicle down C-470, with the driver of the stolen vehicle reaching speeds of 120 mph.

“Other deputies assisted in trying to stop the car,” per the the DA. “Near Park Meadows mall, Langewisch, the rear-seat passenger, fired a gun at deputies, who returned fire. The car attempted to elude deputies by racing through residential neighborhoods – with shots coming out of the back window — until it crashed on Dry Creek Road near I-25.”

Following the crash, deputies tried to take the people inside the vehicle into custody. The occupants of the car didn’t obey commands and deputies shot at the vehicle. The driver, Nicholas Ryan, 19 was killed. The front seat passenger, Jason Sutton, 21, was injured. Langewisch was not injured and was taken into custody. Langewisch was the one firing shots from the vehicle.

Deadly force was justified in the incident, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Langewisch eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer and one count of possession of a weapon by a previous offender as part of a plea agreement.

During the sentencing hearing on July 9, Zink noted Langewisch’s previous criminal history, as well as numerous incidents since he had been in the Douglas County jail.

“This defendant has made his intentions clear: As soon as he is released, he plans to go out and do the exact same kinds of things that put him behind bars,” the Deputy District Attorney said. “There is no remorse, contrition or any interest in rehabilitation on his part. The maximum sentence allowed is appropriate.”

Sutton was sentenced to three years in prison for one count of vehicular eluding and one count of first-degree trespassing of a vehicle.

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Tom & Z’s Friends and Family Key

JB = Jacob Batalon

Alex = Alex Roberts, Tom’s friend and colleague (He worked on FFH and Harry’s recent short)

Darnell = Z’s assistant

Kazembe (Kaz) and Claire = Z’s parents

Dom and Nikki = Tom’s parents

Noon = Z’s dog

Tessa = Tom’s dog

Tom’s grandparents = Granny Tess (Dom’s mother), and Robert and Christina (Berry) Frost (Nikki’s parents),  Note:  Z spent the day with the Frosts along with Tom & Harry in Murano, Italy while they were filming FFH.

Z’s grandparents:  Daphne Stoermer, Kaz’s mom (Idk her name)

Brooke = JB’s current gf

Gracie = Haz’s gf

Audrey = Tuwaine’s former gf

Exes = Elle (Ellicia Lotherington), TJ/Trevor Jackson (AKA the rat), BL/JE (Jacob Elordi), N (Nadia Parkes), and O (Olivia Bolton)

Anthony Drewett = Tom’s costumer

Rachael Speke = Tom’s UK MUA

Christine Nelli = Tom’s LA MUA

Ursula Stephen = Z’s hairstylist

Sheika Daley = Z’s MUA

Law Roach = Z and Tom’s stylist

Jack English = Tom’s bodyguard

Pretty Ricky (Rick Lipton) = Tom’s dialect coach

Scott Bailey = Tom’s golfing coach

Ben Perkins = Tom’s acting coach

George Cottle, Greg Townley, Luke Scott:  Spider-man/Uncharted stunt crew

Nick Evans = Billy Elliott director

Scotty Newman = Z’s publicist, I believe

Tom’s trainers (past and present) = George Ashwell (current), Duffy Gaver (NWH), Yousif Mahdi, Louis Chandler (Tom was recently boxing with Louis at Dogpound in LA)

Tom’s siblings =  Harry, Sam and Paddy

Z’s siblings = Kizzy, EZ, and Samuel (David), Jason (brother-in-law, Kizzy’s husband), Latonja...

Kendrick (Kendrick Sampson) = Darnell and Z’s friend.

Zink =  Z’s niece

Cubb Coleman and Whitney Boswell... = Z’s cousins

Tony O’Dell = Z’s former acting coach

Sam Levinson = Euphoria producer

Kadeem Hardison = Z’s former costar and friend (Tana Roller is his partner)

Tom cousins = James Holland, Ella Frost, Sydney Frost...

JA Bayona = The Impossible director

Z’s friends =  Kamil McFadden, Dominque (Dom) Battiste, Deja Carter, Hunter Schafer, Carmen Key...

Tom’s friends =  Harrison Osterfield (Haz), Tuwaine Barrett, Alex Roberts, Fox Jackson, Ollie Gardner, David (Seadon-Young), Liam O’Shea, Ben Angliss...

This is a good start.  If you guys want to add anyone or correct anything, please inbox me for consideration.  

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What I Read in 2020:

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter

Julian Barnes, The Only Story

Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down and Up Above the World

Michael Connelly, The Night Fire

John Connolly, A Book of Bones

Tana French, In the Woods and The Likeness

Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

William Gibson, Agency

Joe Hill, Nos4A2

Nick Hornby, Just Like You

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Stephen King, Bag of Bones and It

Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

Julie Maroh, Blue Is the Warmest Color

Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow

Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

Ian Rankin, In a House of Lies

Meredith Russo, Birthday

Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

John Sandford, Masked Prey

Dorothy Strachey, Olivia

Graham Swift, Here We Are

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Emily Temple, The Lightness

Nell Zink, Doxology

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What is a PAH?

A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon! But that’s a lot, so let's break it down!

A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a net of carbon molecules, with a ring of hydrogen molecules surrounding them. They’re important because when light photons hit them, they become excited and emit infrared light. Eventually, we can detect this infrared light from Earth, which we can analyze to learn how far away distant stars are. Neat!

Who are we?

We’re a pair of Animators from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Elliot Zink, a Junior Animation Major, and Emma Barany, a Junior minoring in Graphic Design and Liberal Arts. We’re working with Jason Glenn, a scientist with NASA, to create an animation explaining PAH’s.

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Straight Edge Kegger is now available on Blu-ray ($19.99), DVD ($14.99), and VHS ($29.99; limited to 25) via Scream Team Releasing. Marc Schoenbach designed the artwork.

Written and directed by Jason Zink, the independent punk-rock horror film was funded via Kickstarter in 2017 and premiered last year. Cory Kays, Evey Reidy, and Julio Alexander star.

Special features are listed below, where you'll also find the trailer, synopsis, and VHS artwork.

Special features:

Audio commentary with writer-director Jason Zink

In the Red: The Making of Straight Edge Kegger

Deleted scenes

Death By Toys commercial

Theatrical trailer Proof of concept Trailer

Side X Side

Tour intro video

Kickstarter video

After he thinks his straight edge friends have gone too far, young punk Brad (Cory Kays) decides to leave them behind when he meets happy-go-lucky partier Sean (Sean Jones). He attends his first house party where he meets beautiful Maybe (Evelyn Reidy) then all hell breaks loose. A group of masked intruders attacks the houseful of drunks and stoners making sure no one gets out alive. It’s up to Brad, Sean and Maybe to save the party.

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Many of the landholders are newcomers from out of state, though some old-timers remain—families that earned their deeds generations ago, the principal paid by ancestors who shivered through pitiless winters in tar-paper shacks. Wilson has been hiking and hunting the Crazies since he was a little kid, but only in the past year or so, he says, have the private ranchers seemed more like obstacles than neighbors. “They could shut down pretty much the whole interior of the Crazy Mountains, as far as I can see,” he says.                

He trudges up a rooty slope and, after a blind bend, sees something straddling the trail that stops him cold. It’s a padlocked metal gate. He hiked this trail a couple of weeks before, and the fence wasn’t there. A sign on it reads, “Private Property: No Forest Service Access, No Trespassing.” It’s exactly the kind of sign he’d been bad-mouthing a few minutes earlier, but he wasn’t expecting to see one here. The locked gate feels like an escalation, a new weapon in an improvised war.                

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A debate is taking place across the country over preserving land for recreational public use, but most of the attention is focused on vast swaths of historically or scientifically significant terrain that Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and to a lesser extent George W. Bush protected under the national monument designation—for example, Bears Ears in Utah and Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine. These disputed trails leading into the Crazy Mountains represent another front in the escalating battle over control of federal territory, and the fighting here is just as contentious as over the monuments. Historic settlement patterns in the American West created a checkerboard pattern of landownership: Public properties are often broken-up plots, resulting in numerous access disputes. According to a 2013 study by the Center for Western Priorities, that dynamic has effectively locked the public out of about 4 million acres of land in Western states; almost half of that blocked public land, or about 2 million acres, is in Montana, according to the study. The push to end public thoroughfare is either an overdue reassertion of private property rights or an openly cynical land snatch, depending which side of the gate you’re standing on.       

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In late October 2-16, in the dying days of the Obama era, a U.S. district judge issued a verdict that seemed to set a precedent for paths like this one. The Texas-based owners of a Montana property called Wonder Ranch, about 100 miles southeast of the Crazy Mountains, had sued the Forest Service after the government filed a statement of interest claiming an easement—a legal agreement to use a portion of someone’s land for a specific purpose—on a trail that ran across the ranch’s property before reaching the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. The Forest Service said the trail had been routinely used as an access route to the forest by the government and the public for decades, and therefore it should be considered public because of historical use. The owners’ suit argued that the government had no right to an easement. The Department of Justice countersued, producing evidence dating back more than a century showing that the public and the government consistently used the trail for packhorses and hike-ins. The Forest Service won the case.                       

Had the landowners been able to show that the trail had been used for at least five consecutive years only by those who’d received their permission, their claims of private control might have held. That helps explain why Alex Sienkiewicz, the forest ranger overseeing the district that includes the Crazy Mountains, every year sends an email to his staff reminding them never to ask landowners’ permission to use trails that the government already considers public. “By asking permission,” he wrote in 2016’s reminder, “one undermines the public access rights and plays into their lawyers’ trap of establishing a history of permissive access.” That didn’t mean anyone could veer off the trail and slip onto the private property—that’s trespassing, no question about it—it just meant the trail itself should be considered a public throughway.      

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For a while, it seemed that attitude might be one of the rare Obama positions that President Donald Trump could live with. In a pre-election interview, Trump told the magazine Field & Stream he didn’t like the idea of transferring the land to the states, suggesting such transfers could erode public oversight of them: “I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do,” he said. “I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land.”                                       

Public land advocates smelled a contradiction, since the new president was positioning himself elsewhere as a champion of private property rights. And regardless of what he said, Trump’s campaign had tapped into a very deep well of antigovernment sentiment, the sort that Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy appealed to when he occupied public territories and led armed standoffs against federal agents in 2014 and again in 2016. The co-chair of a state group called Veterans for Trump pleaded guilty to helping organize the ad hoc rebel militia, and Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, has been one of Bundy’s most vocal supporters. Immediately after the election, whether or not the results had anything to do with their actions, the Crazy Mountains landowners launched a collective blitz to take control of the trails leading to Forest Service property.                

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Gregoire decided to go for it. When the trail veered through a private plot called the Hailstone Ranch, he spotted a No Trespassing sign that read, “The Forest Service Has No Easement Here.” He ignored it, consulting his GPS to make sure he never strayed from the path onto the private ranch land. The landowner somehow detected that he was using the trail (“I think he had an alarm or something,” Gregoire later speculated) and called a sheriff’s deputy, who was waiting for Gregoire to return at the end of the day. The deputy charged him with criminal trespassing.                                       

Shortly after that, the owners of nine ranches neighboring the Hailstone went after Sienkiewicz. Back on July 20, 2017, a volunteer at Public Land/Water Access Association Inc., a Montana nonprofit that supports open public access to federal lands and waterways, had gotten hold of, then posted on its Facebook page, Sienkiewicz’s most recent annual email reminder to his staff advising them never to sign visitor logs for trail access or ask permission. The property owners apparently assumed that Sienkiewicz had posted the item himself—proof that he was behaving as a political activist, not a public servant. The ranch owners sent a letter to U.S. Senator Steve Daines, a Republican representing Montana, saying in part, “As a direct result of this inflammatory Facebook post, we have many questions about the FS position regarding access across our private property.” Several of the ranchers who signed the letter have also been listed as contributors to Daines’s political campaigns in the past five years.                                       

In May 2017, Daines echoed the landowners’ complaints—and forwarded a screen shot of the Facebook post—in a letter to Thomas Tidwell, then the chief of the Forest Service, and to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, whose agency oversees the Forest Service. Less than two weeks later, Representative Pete Sessions (R-Texas) got involved, firing off a similar complaint to Perdue and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has a long history in Montana. An avid hunter and fisherman, he was born in Bozeman, about 40 miles from the Crazies. He was also a Montana congressman, filling the seat Daines had occupied before he moved to the Senate. (At least one of the ranchers donated to Zinke’s campaign.)

In his letter, Sessions described the Forest Service’s approach to public access as part of “the war on private property owners conducted by the Obama administration.” The Wonder Ranch owners hadn’t been among the nine who signed the initial letter, but they were the link that got Sessions involved. One of the co-owners, a Texan named Chris Hudson, lives in Sessions’ district, and Sessions proposed that Hudson and Perdue meet. Sessions also recommended that the Forest Service issue a nationwide directive to prevent rangers or individual districts from declaring paths and roads public based on historic use.                

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Defenders of Sienkiewicz and Gregoire—a group that included land access advocates, proprietors of recreation businesses, wildlife groups, and individuals—cast the developments as evidence of an under-the-table assault on public lands that the Trump administration appeared to endorse, if not initiate. In spring 2017, Trump requested that Zinke’s Department of the Interior review national monuments, designated or enlarged since 1996, and possibly downsize them, a step he said could rectify what he considered a “massive federal land grab.” Several politicians from Utah, such as Orrin Hatch, Rob Bishop, and Jason Chaffetz, had led the downsizing push, and for years they’d been advocating turning such lands over to the states—the strategy Trump had earlier declared would result in a selloff to the highest bidder. The department eventually suggested downsizing six of the 27 monuments under review, but the ultimate fate of those lands and waters remains in limbo; the matter will go to Congress, and the conservationists have said they will fight the new boundaries in court.              

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Anderson has carved out a field for himself in something called free-market environmentalism. Along with his job at PERC, he’s a professor emeritus at Montana State University and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, a libertarian-leaning think tank. In op-eds published across the country, he’s an evangelist for limited government and private property rights. He views many environmentalists with undisguised contempt, and they generally return the favor.                                       

Like many nonprofits, PERC doesn’t disclose its funding sources, but Greenpeace International has posted records showing that they’ve included Exxon Mobil Corp. and the industrialists Charles and David Koch. Anderson probably wouldn’t worry too much about how that looks: He believes the private sector, in most cases, is a better steward of nature than the government.                

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Quilici’s plan was seat-of-the-pants. He thought he might spend three or four days hiking to an exit point on the far side of the mountains, but he didn’t realize that the most direct trail was blocked by the gate Wilson had confronted. Other possible paths were also contested. When I told him this, he redirected his criticism away from the parking lot and toward the landowners. “I bet they have some lobbying power,” he said. “They just want to keep everything like it’s their own private reserve.”        

Herein lies the big challenge for the landowners and their defenders: Survey after survey has shown that the public hates the idea that someone can lock taxpayers out of public land, and that they’re suspicious of transferring control of such tracts to private enterprise. Nevertheless, Anderson and PERC deny that their position is out of step with public opinion, even casting it as pro-access. Their rationale is oblique: If the Forest Service insists the public has a right to use the trails, they say, private landowners will naturally rebel; numerous court battles will ensue, tying up the trails in years of litigation and costing the government millions of dollars. And as the cases proceed, the landowners will take steps to secure their property rights, blocking traffic on the trails until the mess is sorted out.                                       

“In the places where now there are signs,” Anderson predicts, “you’ll see a locked gate.” His comment is an informed one. He counts several of the landowners involved in the Crazy Mountains disputes as friends, including the owners of the Rein Anchor Outfitting and Ranch, who operate a hunting lodge and signed the letter against Sienkiewicz. PERC’s affiliation with politically connected outfitters that stand to profit if trails are closed bolsters the sense, to Wilson and others confronting locked gates, that a void in coherent policy about public land management is being filled by cronyism that rewards wealth and connections above all else. Another co-owner of the Wonder Ranch, Frank-Paul King, a friend and former student of Anderson’s, served on PERC’s board. Hudson, the man who got Representative Sessions involved, is King’s brother-in-law, and he’s also a board member and the former president of the Dallas Safari Club, a group that made national headlines in 2014 when it auctioned off a trip to Africa to hunt an endangered rhinoceros. (The winning bidder, who paid $350,000, traveled to Namibia and shot a black rhino bull, an animal the club said had threatened the rest of the herd.) The Dallas Safari Club has granted PERC funding for, among other things, a study on “private conservation in the public interest.”                                       

In 2016 the Dallas Safari Club hosted a fundraiser featuring the big-game hunting enthusiast Donald Trump Jr. that netted $60,000 in campaign donations to the Republican National Committee. “The candidate’s family connection to hunting and its legacy gives DSC a huge opportunity to have the right people in place as advocates for our mission,” the club’s newsletter stated. After Trump was elected, Hudson was listed as an organizer for a post-inaugural fundraiser called “Opening Day 45,” which featured Eric and Donald Trump Jr. as co-chairs. It was canceled after TMZ published an early draft of the invitation in December 2016, promising personal access to President Trump, along with a multiday hunting excursion with his sons, to anyone who donated more than $500,000, sparking criticism that the sons planned to peddle access to their father.                

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The trail access issue was extremely sensitive inside the Forest Service, she explained, and potentially costly, too. The Trump administration was proposing a 73 percent cut in the Forest Service’s capital improvement and maintenance budget and an 84 percent reduction, from $77 million to $12 million, in its trail program budget. The Wonder Ranch case, she observed, had cost the government “in the millions of dollars,” and it wasn’t over yet—the landowners were appealing the decision, and it now sat with an appellate judge. “I’m not saying we’re never going to go to court, but the Forest Service is going to be careful about when we go to court and make sure we’re going to court on cases we can win,” she said.                

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The agency in mid-October announced it was giving Sienkiewicz his job back. But Gevock’s frustrations spoke to an unresolved question underlying all of the disputes: Who, exactly, is the Forest Service supposed to serve? On the agency’s website, former Director Thomas Tidwell wrote that its guiding principles were clearly established by Gifford Pinchot, the service’s founding chief, during the Gilded Age—“a time when the nation’s resources were being exploited for the benefit of the wealthy few,” Tidwell stated. “The national forests were based on a notion that was just the opposite—that these lands belong to everyone.”                                       

The public access advocates say they’re not sure they trust the spirit of Pinchot’s original message has survived intact. The mixed signals coming from the Trump administration mean everything rests on how those sometimes conflicting messages are interpreted. Zinke has repeatedly insisted, without offering specifics, that he is pro-access, and on his first day in office he pledged to fight against the “dramatic decreases in access to public lands across the board” that he said were plaguing America. “It worries me to think about hunting and fishing becoming activities for the landowning elite,” he said.                                       

But in July 2017, while public land advocates were protesting the Interior Department’s pending move to downsize the national monuments and hikers were cursing the new No Trespassing signs in the Crazies, Zinke traveled to Denver to speak at the annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. The group, a conservative lobbying coalition that helps lawmakers draft legislative proposals, has energetically pushed for the potential transfer of federal lands to the states. Whether Zinke’s speech clarified the government’s general, overarching philosophy on public-vs.-private control of lands that are currently federal, only members of the lobbying group can say for sure. Unlike several other speeches delivered at the conference, Zinke’s wasn’t transcribed or published, and it was closed to the general public.                

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2019 Hugo Award finalists announced

The 2019 Hugo Award nominees have been announced; the Hugos will be presented this summer at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland.

Normally, I find that I've read and reviewed a huge slice of the year's finalists, but this year is different; I've done a lot less reading lately, partly because I wrote two books in 2018 and partly because the new EU Copyright Directive ate my life for about 10 months in the past year.

I was a little sad to be so far behind the curve when I saw the new list, but then I realized that this meant that I had a bunch of really exciting books to add to my to-be-read pile!

One notable inclusion: the Archive of Our Own fanfic archive -- a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (for whose advisory board I volunteer) -- is up for "Best Related Work."

Congrats to all the nominees!

Best Novel * The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) * Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager) * Revenant Gun, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) * Space Opera, by Catherynne M. Valente (Saga) * Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Macmillan) * Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Best Novella * Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) * Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) * Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) * The Black God’s Drums, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing) * Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing) * The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency)

Best Novelette * “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018) * “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections,” by Tina Connolly (Tor.com, 11 July 2018) * “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth,” by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com, 19 September 2018) * The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing) * “The Thing About Ghost Stories,” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine 25, November- December 2018) * “When We Were Starless,” by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld 145, October 2018)

Best Short Story * “The Court Magician,” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018) * “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society,” by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine 25, November-December 2018) * “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington,” by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine, February 2018) * “STET,” by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine, October 2018) * “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat,” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine 23, July-August 2018) * “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies,” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)

Best Series * The Centenal Cycle, by Malka Older (Tor) * The Laundry Files, by Charles Stross (most recently Tor.com Publishing/Orbit) * Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) * The October Daye Series, by Seanan McGuire (most recently DAW) * The Universe of Xuya, by Aliette de Bodard (most recently Subterranean Press) * Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)

Best Related Work * Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works * Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, by Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street Books) * The Hobbit Duology (documentary in three parts), written and edited by Lindsay Ellis and Angelina Meehan (YouTube) * An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953- 2000, by Jo Walton (Tor) * www.mexicanxinitiative.com: The Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76 (Julia Rios, Libia Brenda, Pablo Defendini, John Picacio) * Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, by Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon (Tin House Books)

Best Graphic Story * Abbott, written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä, colours by Jason Wordie, letters by Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios) * Black Panther: Long Live the King, written by Nnedi Okorafor and Aaron Covington, art by André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino and Tana Ford (Marvel) * Monstress, Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics) * On a Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden (First Second) * Paper Girls, Volume 4, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image Comics) * Saga, Volume 9, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form * Annihilation, directed and written for the screen by Alex Garland, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer (Paramount Pictures / Skydance) * Avengers: Infinity War, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios) * Black Panther, written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel Studios) * A Quiet Place, screenplay by Scott Beck, John Krasinski and Bryan Woods, directed by John Krasinski (Platinum Dunes / Sunday Night) * Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley (Annapurna Pictures) * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form * The Expanse: “Abaddon’s Gate,” written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Penguin in a Parka / Alcon Entertainment) * Doctor Who: “Demons of the Punjab,” written by Vinay Patel, directed by Jamie Childs (BBC) * Dirty Computer, written by Janelle Monáe, directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy Records / Atlantic Records) * The Good Place: “Janet(s),” written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett (NBC) * The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy,” written by Megan Amram, directed by Trent O’Donnell (NBC) * Doctor Who: “Rosa,” written by Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall, directed by Mark Tonderai (BBC)

Best Professional Editor, Short Form * Neil Clarke * Gardner Dozois * Lee Harris * Julia Rios * Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas * E. Catherine Tobler

Best Professional Editor, Long Form * Sheila E. Gilbert * Anne Lesley Groell * Beth Meacham * Diana Pho * Gillian Redfearn * Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist * Galen Dara * Jaime Jones * Victo Ngai * John Picacio * Yuko Shimizu * Charles Vess

Best Semiprozine * Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews * Fireside Magazine, edited by Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, social coordinator Meg Frank, special features editor Tanya DePass, founding editor Brian White, publisher and art director Pablo Defendini * FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editors Troy L. Wiggins and DaVaun Sanders, editors L.D. Lewis, Brandon O’Brien, Kaleb Russell, Danny Lore, and Brent Lambert * Shimmer, publisher Beth Wodzinski, senior editor E. Catherine Tobler * Strange Horizons, edited by Jane Crowley, Kate Dollarhyde, Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra Chandrasekera, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller, and the Strange Horizons Staff * Uncanny Magazine, publishers/editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, managing editor Michi Trota, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue editors-in-chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

Best Fanzine * Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus * Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet * Lady Business, editors Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan * nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla and The G * Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur * Rocket Stack Rank, editors Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

Best Fancast * Be the Serpent, presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace * The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe * Fangirl Happy Hour, hosted by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams * Galactic Suburbia, hosted by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch * Our Opinions Are Correct, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders * The Skiffy and Fanty Show, produced by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke, hosted by the Skiffy and Fanty Crew

Best Fan Writer * Foz Meadows * James Davis Nicoll * Charles Payseur * Elsa Sjunneson-Henry * Alasdair Stuart * Bogi Takács

Best Fan Artist * Sara Felix * Grace P. Fong * Meg Frank * Ariela Housman * Likhain (Mia Sereno) * Spring Schoenhuth

Best Art Book * The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess, written by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga Press /Gollancz) * Daydreamer’s Journey: The Art of Julie Dillon, by Julie Dillon (self-published) * Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Sam Witwer (Ten Speed Press) * Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, ed. John Fleskes (Flesk Publications) * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed (Titan Books) * Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, ed. Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer * Katherine Arden (2nd year of eligibility) * S.A. Chakraborty (2nd year of eligibility) * R.F. Kuang (1st year of eligibility) * Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility) * Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2nd year of eligibility) * Rivers Solomon (2nd year of eligibility)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book * The Belles, by Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform / Gollancz) * Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt / Macmillan Children’s Books) * The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black (Little, Brown / Hot Key Books) * Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) * The Invasion, by Peadar O’Guilin (David Fickling Books / Scholastic) * Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman (Random House / Penguin Teen)

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KATY PERRY BY JASON ODELL FOR ZINK MAGAZINE, 2008

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New Secretary of Interior Zinke sits at his desk on his first day, and he sees a whining letter from Jason Chaffetz, alleged representative from Utah

You know Jason Chaffetz, right? The republican Representative from Utah, the one who went ape shit over Hillary and Benghazi and Hillary and e-mails and who went to his town hall meetings in Utah a couple of weeks ago and basically had verbal tomatos tossed at him by his constituents who he claimed were really outsiders and paid agitators? Yeah, that Jason Chaffetz, who looks like a little troll.

(I was a mean shit when I was a kid. Not proud of it. Regardless, it was what it was and all that, we would throw things, like rocks, at the tattletalers and rats and teacher’s pets. I have this vision that Chaffetz was the stereotypical target of my rocks.)

So, according to E&E News, Chaffetz made sure that the most important thing for Zinke to pay attention to were his hurt feelings and grievances because President Obama ignored him.

New Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke got a housewarming gift from Congress on his first day on the job yesterday: a request for official documents related to issues ranging from the designation of national monuments to complaints against Bureau of Land Management law enforcement agents for alleged bullying.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent Zinke a letter including document and record requests on seven matters it submitted to Interior Department officials between October 2015 and December 2016 and is still waiting for feedback on.

"The committee currently has certain pending requests for documents and information with the Department of the Interior. As the department transitions to new leadership, I reiterate these requests here," wrote Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).

The panel wants information related to several issues that cropped up during the previous administration, including:

Allegations from state officials in Nevada and Utah that some BLM law enforcement officers are intimidating and harassing residents and tourists, as well as the controversy stemming from extravagant budget requests — including 24-hour access to ice cream — to manage the 2015 Burning Man event.

A March 2015 BLM rule, now tied up in court, that would expand federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing in several Western states.

The Obama administration's use of the Antiquities Act to designate more national monuments, including 1.8 million acres of land in California, Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada.

BLM's decisionmaking process as it related to the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project in California.

The Senate confirmed Zinke yesterday in a 68-31 bipartisan vote (Greenwire, March 1). He now leads a department of 70,000 employees that oversees 20 percent of U.S. lands. The federal government's role in managing those lands vis-à-vis states' authority will be a central issue facing the new secretary.

Interior's Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs will review yesterday's congressional request from the House committee, department spokeswoman Heather Swift said today.

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Indian Country Will Not Miss Zinke or His Fashion Choices

INDIAN COUNTRY- Last weekend, Ryan Zinke confirmed that he will be stepping down from his position as Secretary of Interior. He is one of many Trump’s administration that has stepped down down to ethical issues and embarrassment. During his run as Secretary he opened up Indigenous lands to privatization for the exploitation of gas and oil companies.

Yet, when these are just the smallest violations compared to his fashion choice which was the main offence that Native fashion designers critiqued. Within a couple months of his selection for the position, he was spotted wearing USA moccasins in a meeting. Such a decision made people question the rationale of the person who was in charge of their lands.

Tlo’chi’iin spoke a couple of Navajo fashion designers about Zinke’s attire. They were eager to put him on the chopping block. Jason Yazzie, lead designer of DXOX, was quick to comment.

“Personally, I didn’t like the colors at all” he said scratching his chin. “He needed a design that fitted his personality preferably some sketch of a Native women on it”. “He thinks he can manage Indigenous lands with such attire is just a product of fashion colonialism”.

“I would like to see the next Secretary of Interior wear one of my designs”.

Another person  spoke about Zinke’s choice to wear moccasins.  Cheryl Yellowhair, designer at MOC the Walk, felt that Zinke’s run was a mockery to all moccasin wearers.  

“I have heard rumors that Zinke wore moccasins during “Rock Your Mocs” and he isn’t even native”, she said scornfully. “He just perpetuates colonial fashion sense and I work hard to decolonize clothing for Indigenous people”. “He is a working fashion disaster for Indigenous people and lands”.

Zinke’s office declined to speak to our reporters but they did allow us to include a portion of their email in this article.

“Zinke’s professional attire symbolizes his commitment to privatizing Indigenous lands”. “In the spirit of Capital, he is commodifying Indigenous fashion, land, and eventually people”. “His USA moccasin choice was his first step towards accomplishing his goal”. “We are said to see such a fashionable individual leave the position”.

The Navajo Nation President released a memo where he stated the Secretary position needed to be filled as soon as possible because of it’s historical role in dispossessing Indigenous people of their lands. He also added that he would like to see someone more fashionably inclined in the position.

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27APR19 Me with Jason Zink, director of STRAIGHT EDGE KEGGER.

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Review: Jason Zink's "Straight Edge Kegger" (A Visual Pleasing, Sensory Defusing Wild Ride) Read More Here: https://www.horrorsociety.com/2019/03/27/review-jason-zinks-straight-edge-kegger-a-visual-pleasing-sensory-defusing-wild-ride/