Brandon Amico
@amico.bsky.social
NEA fellow • MTG articles @ EDHREC • Events/marketing @gamershaunt.bsky.social • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—
If this game is still going by tonight do they have to play it simultaneously? 2 pitchers, 2 batters. No mercy
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
If this game is still going by tonight do they have to play it simultaneously? 2 pitchers, 2 batters. No mercy
Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.
October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.
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sex is fine but have you ever had someone review your poetry who fundamentally gets what you were doing and a few things you didn't realize you were doing?
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
sex is fine but have you ever had someone review your poetry who fundamentally gets what you were doing and a few things you didn't realize you were doing?
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One must imagine Sisyphus happily mulling to three
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One must imagine Sisyphus happily mulling to three
So excited to finally be able to move this nerd hub to a bigger place downtown that our community deserves!
Huge announcement! This Spring, Gamers’ Haunt is expanding to a bigger location, right in downtown Asheville!
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
So excited to finally be able to move this nerd hub to a bigger place downtown that our community deserves!
For from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return
Just watched someone pull out of Starbucks with their matcha on top of their car
Immediately fell asleep they turned
Putting the dirt and grass in their drink back where it came from 😌
Immediately fell asleep they turned
Putting the dirt and grass in their drink back where it came from 😌
September 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
For from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return
Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.
If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.
September 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.
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timeline cleanse
Eddie Izzard - Ich Bin Ein Berliner
YouTube video by RumblePak_5
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September 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
timeline cleanse
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in the brilliant standup special “dress to kill,” eddie izzard said communication is “70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% what you say.” seems relevant right now.
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
in the brilliant standup special “dress to kill,” eddie izzard said communication is “70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% what you say.” seems relevant right now.
Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion
September 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion
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Boiled down my AI policy this semester --
August 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Boiled down my AI policy this semester --
Tonight I tried to check my pocket for my keys *while* driving, if you want a sense of my level of generalized anxiety these days
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Tonight I tried to check my pocket for my keys *while* driving, if you want a sense of my level of generalized anxiety these days
Probably swap 3 and 4 but otherwise no edits
My ongoing list of the greatest inventions in human history:
1. vaccines
2. public education
3. fireworks
4. coke freestyle machines
1. vaccines
2. public education
3. fireworks
4. coke freestyle machines
September 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Probably swap 3 and 4 but otherwise no edits
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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Let's rank every keyword ability pair by which two you'd most like to see on your creature as it heads into the red zone. By @amico.bsky.social #EDH #EDHREC #Commander #MTG
Ranking Creature Keyword Combinations in Magic: The Gathering | EDHREC
Brandon Amico ranks keyword ability pairs by which two you'd most like to see on your creature as it heads into the red zone.
edhrec.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Let's rank every keyword ability pair by which two you'd most like to see on your creature as it heads into the red zone. By @amico.bsky.social #EDH #EDHREC #Commander #MTG
New article up at @edhrec.com! I rank the keyword pairs you’d most want to see on your creature. Like every ranking/list article, I expect half of the internet to be so offended by the choices that my death is called for, sans jury. But we do it for the love of the game.
edhrec.com/articles/ran...
edhrec.com/articles/ran...
Ranking Creature Keyword Combinations in Magic: The Gathering | EDHREC
Brandon Amico ranks keyword ability pairs by which two you'd most like to see on your creature as it heads into the red zone.
edhrec.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New article up at @edhrec.com! I rank the keyword pairs you’d most want to see on your creature. Like every ranking/list article, I expect half of the internet to be so offended by the choices that my death is called for, sans jury. But we do it for the love of the game.
edhrec.com/articles/ran...
edhrec.com/articles/ran...
A post-ska dad band called Soda Poppin’ Daddies
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A post-ska dad band called Soda Poppin’ Daddies
The mailman today finally brought me something other than warnings about my untimely death delivered in Pig Latin—the @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Roleplaying Game!
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
August 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The mailman today finally brought me something other than warnings about my untimely death delivered in Pig Latin—the @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Roleplaying Game!
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.
Therapist: And when do you think this disillusionment with being a professional artist began?
Me: When I saw how the biz treated Gonzo
youtu.be/8AdaI-4bCt0?...
Me: When I saw how the biz treated Gonzo
youtu.be/8AdaI-4bCt0?...
The Muppet Show: Gonzo - "Flight of the Bumblebee"
YouTube video by dorcm1973
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August 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Therapist: And when do you think this disillusionment with being a professional artist began?
Me: When I saw how the biz treated Gonzo
youtu.be/8AdaI-4bCt0?...
Me: When I saw how the biz treated Gonzo
youtu.be/8AdaI-4bCt0?...
A thank you to Mergoat Mag for including my haiku in this, their last issue, focused on Appalachia, Catastrophe, and Helene.
July 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A thank you to Mergoat Mag for including my haiku in this, their last issue, focused on Appalachia, Catastrophe, and Helene.
A hard but grateful message: the Fall 2025 issue of The Florida Review will be the last with me as Poetry Editor. Nothing but love for my time there, and I’m excited for whatever the next steps for my life look like.
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A hard but grateful message: the Fall 2025 issue of The Florida Review will be the last with me as Poetry Editor. Nothing but love for my time there, and I’m excited for whatever the next steps for my life look like.
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social
They’re the same picture
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
They’re the same picture