Writer, professor, old punk. NO CASTLES, THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, & more out now on your favorite e-book platforms. Read MAPMAKERS on Patreon. No roads but the ones we make. He/Him.
Sam Vincent can find almost anything lost in the clouded sea of an overcrowded & hostile Internet, in a future not too far-off. When an old lover asks a favor, a the fabric of online is going to start to unravel. Subscribe to my Patreon to read MAPMAKERS & get new chapters as they go up;
Sam Vincent can find almost anything lost in the clouded sea of an overcrowded & hostile Internet, in a future not too far-off. When an old lover asks a favor, a the fabric of online is going to start to unravel. Subscribe to my Patreon to read MAPMAKERS & get new chapters as they go up;
The Vice-President is as much a dilettante moron as the President, just in a “I say this shit to bootlick” way VS a “My brain is Swiss cheese from a diet of nothing but amphetamines and Diet Coke” way.
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Vice-President is as much a dilettante moron as the President, just in a “I say this shit to bootlick” way VS a “My brain is Swiss cheese from a diet of nothing but amphetamines and Diet Coke” way.
This month's newsletter piece goes out tomorrow. In it, I discuss growing up on the internet in the 90s and into the 00s, how the internet has changed, my relationship to social media, my fear of performativity, and my lifelong desire to live publicly
This month's newsletter piece goes out tomorrow. In it, I discuss growing up on the internet in the 90s and into the 00s, how the internet has changed, my relationship to social media, my fear of performativity, and my lifelong desire to live publicly
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert A. Heinlein definitely did a number on my brain in college.
I have fully-found out and all I have to say is that Jesus just ignore it all, who cares. I remember how controversial it was that some Bond films would reference his deceased wife from ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.
I don’t know why everyone is talking about James Bond this morning and if you try to tell me why there will be consequences.
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have fully-found out and all I have to say is that Jesus just ignore it all, who cares. I remember how controversial it was that some Bond films would reference his deceased wife from ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.
I genuinely don’t really have a lot of pictures of myself from a “different era,” I didn’t take a ton of photos as a teen (pre-smartphone), and was not the kind that always have a camera around.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I genuinely don’t really have a lot of pictures of myself from a “different era,” I didn’t take a ton of photos as a teen (pre-smartphone), and was not the kind that always have a camera around.
Suddenly! Randomly! Here's my Patreon! Comics and early access to my podcasts, plus doodles and illustrations and random essays and reviews about stuff! www.patreon.com/c/phantasmic...
Suddenly! Randomly! Here's my Patreon! Comics and early access to my podcasts, plus doodles and illustrations and random essays and reviews about stuff! www.patreon.com/c/phantasmic...