BW Costello
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I am a serial monomaniac. Views my own. he/him.
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Really nothing’s been the same since they changed The New Zork Times to The Status Line.
December 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Really nothing’s been the same since they changed The New Zork Times to The Status Line.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Happy Anatomy Lesson Day to those who celebrate!
(Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 on sale date: November 17, 1983)
(Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 on sale date: November 17, 1983)
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Happy Anatomy Lesson Day to those who celebrate!
(Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 on sale date: November 17, 1983)
(Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 on sale date: November 17, 1983)
How come when people want to spend a year in "self-imposed exile at the edge of the country" they never wind up in Biloxi.
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How come when people want to spend a year in "self-imposed exile at the edge of the country" they never wind up in Biloxi.
Out today! I was honored and delighted to write the introduction for LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN, VOLUME 1, the latest in a series of volumes from Fantagraphics/Marvel Comics reprinting forgotten and neglected gems from Marvel's vaults. www.fantagraphics.com/products/los...
August 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Out today! I was honored and delighted to write the introduction for LOST MARVELS: HOWARD CHAYKIN, VOLUME 1, the latest in a series of volumes from Fantagraphics/Marvel Comics reprinting forgotten and neglected gems from Marvel's vaults. www.fantagraphics.com/products/los...
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“Comics might be the form of the future.”
Rick Veitch’s journey from underground icon to visionary storyteller is collected in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH.
📚 Available now.https://buff.ly/yiNAHvV
#UPMississippi #ComicsHistory
Rick Veitch’s journey from underground icon to visionary storyteller is collected in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH.
📚 Available now.https://buff.ly/yiNAHvV
#UPMississippi #ComicsHistory
August 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“Comics might be the form of the future.”
Rick Veitch’s journey from underground icon to visionary storyteller is collected in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH.
📚 Available now.https://buff.ly/yiNAHvV
#UPMississippi #ComicsHistory
Rick Veitch’s journey from underground icon to visionary storyteller is collected in CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH.
📚 Available now.https://buff.ly/yiNAHvV
#UPMississippi #ComicsHistory
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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The profile of “an artist exploring the new frontier of human-machine collaboration,” the wistful first-person literary essay about the writer’s mildly disorienting and somewhat dispiriting but ultimately bracing and useful week with ChatGPT
July 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The profile of “an artist exploring the new frontier of human-machine collaboration,” the wistful first-person literary essay about the writer’s mildly disorienting and somewhat dispiriting but ultimately bracing and useful week with ChatGPT
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The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content
July 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content
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This is the most disturbing aesthetic evolution of my central point in “About Face”: the mainstreaming of fascist & paramilitary presence through its aesthetic in consumer goods, AKA white men with no real sense of self buying adjacency to violent authoritarian power. 🤮 popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
About Face
Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.
popula.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is the most disturbing aesthetic evolution of my central point in “About Face”: the mainstreaming of fascist & paramilitary presence through its aesthetic in consumer goods, AKA white men with no real sense of self buying adjacency to violent authoritarian power. 🤮 popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
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*Rushing into the Sony CEO's C-suite with this in hand before security drags me out*
So, you know how people liked both Oppenheimer and Superman...
So, you know how people liked both Oppenheimer and Superman...
July 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
*Rushing into the Sony CEO's C-suite with this in hand before security drags me out*
So, you know how people liked both Oppenheimer and Superman...
So, you know how people liked both Oppenheimer and Superman...
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whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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I like Caitlin Clark. But there's a growing Caitlin Clark stan community on the other site that a) hates all other players in the WNBA and b) seems suspiciously interested in criticizing the leadership of the WNBA players association, who are now negotiating a new CBA. I'm sure that's a coincidence.
July 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I like Caitlin Clark. But there's a growing Caitlin Clark stan community on the other site that a) hates all other players in the WNBA and b) seems suspiciously interested in criticizing the leadership of the WNBA players association, who are now negotiating a new CBA. I'm sure that's a coincidence.
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein: But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself.
Ross Douthat: yes I agree that religion should be a friend to science
Ross Douthat: yes I agree that religion should be a friend to science
June 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Dr. Victor Frankenstein: But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself.
Ross Douthat: yes I agree that religion should be a friend to science
Ross Douthat: yes I agree that religion should be a friend to science
The DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE trailer looks like the Brendan O'Brien-produced Bruce albums sound.
June 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE trailer looks like the Brendan O'Brien-produced Bruce albums sound.
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NEW WORK:
My contributor copy arrived today, marvelous, definitive volume on one of my dearest friends.
My contributor copy arrived today, marvelous, definitive volume on one of my dearest friends.
CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH is out now! Thirteen interviews from the 1980s to today, three of which are brand-new to this book, including a career-spanner by @stephenrbissette.bsky.social. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
June 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW WORK:
My contributor copy arrived today, marvelous, definitive volume on one of my dearest friends.
My contributor copy arrived today, marvelous, definitive volume on one of my dearest friends.
CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH is out now! Thirteen interviews from the 1980s to today, three of which are brand-new to this book, including a career-spanner by @stephenrbissette.bsky.social. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
June 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH is out now! Thirteen interviews from the 1980s to today, three of which are brand-new to this book, including a career-spanner by @stephenrbissette.bsky.social. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
So many of the comments are "She didn't prompt it correctly" or "She gave it bad input" or "A different generative AI model would have done this better." For some folks, AI cannot fail, it can only be failed.
This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So many of the comments are "She didn't prompt it correctly" or "She gave it bad input" or "A different generative AI model would have done this better." For some folks, AI cannot fail, it can only be failed.
Watching TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. for the first time. William Petersen’s partner is 3 days from retirement. Great character, hope the movie checks in later on to see how he’s enjoying the sweet rod and reel Petersen gave him! Maybe we’ll get some scenes of them on the lake together?
May 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Watching TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. for the first time. William Petersen’s partner is 3 days from retirement. Great character, hope the movie checks in later on to see how he’s enjoying the sweet rod and reel Petersen gave him! Maybe we’ll get some scenes of them on the lake together?
Great post by Holly Raymond on a late-run J.M. DeMatteis/Paul Neary Captain America issue. @jmdematteis.bsky.social's run on Captain America, most of it with Mike Zeck, is a still underappreciated gem of thoughtful 1980s superhero comics.
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨
‘A Funny Song, Isn’t It, Steve?’: Arnie Roth and Queer Refusal in Difficult Times, by Holly Raymond: shelfdust.com/2025/05/21/a...
‘A Funny Song, Isn’t It, Steve?’: Arnie Roth and Queer Refusal in Difficult Times, by Holly Raymond: shelfdust.com/2025/05/21/a...
‘A Funny Song, Isn’t It, Steve?’: Arnie Roth and Queer Refusal in Difficult Times
Hiding Underneath That Chain-Mail By Holly Raymond This is an essay about Captain America’s dead gay friend Arnie Roth. It’s an essay about how to live in a world that wants to kill you, and tells …
shelfdust.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Great post by Holly Raymond on a late-run J.M. DeMatteis/Paul Neary Captain America issue. @jmdematteis.bsky.social's run on Captain America, most of it with Mike Zeck, is a still underappreciated gem of thoughtful 1980s superhero comics.
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Conversations with Rick Veitch is 55% off - my two interviews with him are in here! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
May 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Conversations with Rick Veitch is 55% off - my two interviews with him are in here! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
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We're celebrating UPM's 55th Anniversary with 55% off ALL TITLES, including CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH, edited by Brannon Costello. buff.ly/0QJ1doB
May 14–23, 2025
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Plus, get free US shipping with no minimum purchase!
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May 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We're celebrating UPM's 55th Anniversary with 55% off ALL TITLES, including CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH, edited by Brannon Costello. buff.ly/0QJ1doB
May 14–23, 2025
Plus, get free US shipping with no minimum purchase!
#Sale #UPM55 #ReadUP #UPMBooks @bwcostello.bsky.social
May 14–23, 2025
Plus, get free US shipping with no minimum purchase!
#Sale #UPM55 #ReadUP #UPMBooks @bwcostello.bsky.social
Good time to pre-order CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH for a mere $11.25! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...
May 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Good time to pre-order CONVERSATIONS WITH RICK VEITCH for a mere $11.25! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...