Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show
@vmspod.bsky.social
I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm
Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
Just hit the "Changing Light at Sandover" section of The Magic Mountain, and have no idea how Mann is going to wrap this thing up in the last 50 pages.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just hit the "Changing Light at Sandover" section of The Magic Mountain, and have no idea how Mann is going to wrap this thing up in the last 50 pages.
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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
READ THIS BOOK
If you've been on the fence about buying THE MAN NOBODY KILLED because it wasn't $5, well, I have good news. (It's $5.)
www.amazon.com/dp/125089822...
www.amazon.com/dp/125089822...
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York [Green, Elon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
www.amazon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
READ THIS BOOK
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Now is the perfect time to pick up The ALTIPLANO saga or any (or all!) of my Peruvian Cyberpunk books! 😁🤖🐯
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Now is the perfect time to pick up The ALTIPLANO saga or any (or all!) of my Peruvian Cyberpunk books! 😁🤖🐯
FWIW, I'm making some progress, getting some pieces finalized, writing some new ones. Maybe I'll actually go on a tear and finish the writing in 2025. (Then on the production quotes, crowdfunding, etc.)
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
FWIW, I'm making some progress, getting some pieces finalized, writing some new ones. Maybe I'll actually go on a tear and finish the writing in 2025. (Then on the production quotes, crowdfunding, etc.)
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ooh! It’s the terror of the goddamned blank page! Wonderful to meet you yet again!
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
#writing #amwriting #amnotwriting #anxiety
New linky-newsletter! Tons of links for you to check out, BIRDY! Gets groomed, my doppelgänger builds a starship, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
Hitting The Links: 11/9/25
Lots and lots of links, plus a couple of doppelgänger updates, a LEGO Enterprise, some BIRDY!, and more
buttondown.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New linky-newsletter! Tons of links for you to check out, BIRDY! Gets groomed, my doppelgänger builds a starship, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
They leave the S off for Savings
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
They leave the S off for Savings
Great #podcast session & extracurricular gabbing with #JenniferHayden today
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Great #podcast session & extracurricular gabbing with #JenniferHayden today
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The sixth issue of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out today. It's a commonplace book issue, offering the first 50 of what will, after a subsequent issue, be 100 quotes about the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom. (A fun thing: 5 of the people quoted are writers I know!)
Issue 6: 100 notes on the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom (Part 1)
The key to immortality is boredom.
—Elisa Gabbert
There comes a tide in the affairs of men which, if you don't nip it in the bud, leads on to boredom.
—E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia
Boredom is an exq...
this-not-that.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The sixth issue of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out today. It's a commonplace book issue, offering the first 50 of what will, after a subsequent issue, be 100 quotes about the bore, the bored, the boring, and boredom. (A fun thing: 5 of the people quoted are writers I know!)
BIG MEN in Frankfurt & Baltimore
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
BIG MEN in Frankfurt & Baltimore
I’ve got flare
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’ve got flare
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
Somewhere just past PHL
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Somewhere just past PHL
It’s November; READ THE ROOM
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s November; READ THE ROOM
New newsletter! We've got this week's #podcast with @rianhughes.bsky.social, some fantastic Instax #photos, a little update after my Frankfurt/London week, and more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
8 Ball
We've got a big new podcast with Rian Hughes about TYPERACTIVE, a post-travel update, a bunch of great Instax pix from the UK, and more
buttondown.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New newsletter! We've got this week's #podcast with @rianhughes.bsky.social, some fantastic Instax #photos, a little update after my Frankfurt/London week, and more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...
New #podcast: @rianhughes.bsky.social & I talk about TYPERACTIVE, his new #Kickstarter to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Device Fonts foundry. We talk #type, #fonts, #art, #comics, #typography, & more, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Episode 662 – Rian Hughes
Virtual Memories Show 662: Rian Hughes “I’m never bored. I’m very lucky because I get up in the morning and I’m full of the possibilities of what I can do that day. And I…
chimeraobscura.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New #podcast: @rianhughes.bsky.social & I talk about TYPERACTIVE, his new #Kickstarter to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Device Fonts foundry. We talk #type, #fonts, #art, #comics, #typography, & more, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
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As our human line of sight shrinks ever further into our phones, I believe it is critical right now to dream at a landscape scale. To seek a place, even in our backyards, where our strength and characters is drawn.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
Landscape Scale Dreaming
Walking home off the map.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As our human line of sight shrinks ever further into our phones, I believe it is critical right now to dream at a landscape scale. To seek a place, even in our backyards, where our strength and characters is drawn.
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
open.substack.com/pub/wildword...
This book is fantastic; congrats to Edith!
(my conversation with Edith about it is at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-5...)
(my conversation with Edith about it is at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-5...)
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This book is fantastic; congrats to Edith!
(my conversation with Edith about it is at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-5...)
(my conversation with Edith about it is at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-5...)
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ANTIMATTER
A One-Man-thology of Dean Haspiel Deep Cuts
www.kickstarter.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Make ANTIMATTER Matter
Only 10-hours left to go in my Kickstarter
deanhaspiel.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
SUPPORT DINO!
Only 34 hours left to back ANTIMATTER ~ a one-man comix anthology featuring BRAND NEW STORIES (40+ pages) of my personal pantheon of protagonists & paramours. Hurry before it's too late!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
SUPPORT DINO!
"Days disappear, and what we feel goes with them." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Alert to Reality | Langdon Hammer
The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.
www.nybooks.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Days disappear, and what we feel goes with them." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...