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Mike Spry
@mikespry.bsky.social
Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books.

I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
“We have to foster a culture that allows for experimentation and failure […] Slow, meditative progress towards understanding is something that metrics can’t map.“

Candice Spry in Canvas Rebel. Read it: canvasrebel.com/meet-candice...

#art #sculpture #sculptor #artcommunity #arttalk #sprys
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Video addendum to essay, “TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation—Now It’s Just a Door to More Content” (tinyurl.com/2mnfrmym) I’m pitching streaming services and networks my new TV show. Not to CBS tho.

📺 💬

#tv #netflix #streaming #Conversations #Community #TVTrends #CommunityThroughArt #Binge
May 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! To coincide with my essay "Wilcohatchee: Four Friends, Two Americas, and the Road Between Them" (tinyurl.com/bdetj2ff), I got heavy into #Wilco, #NASCAR, and the South. Here's my #LastFourWatched.
May 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Video addendum my essay “Wilcohatchee: Four Friends, Two Americas, and the Road Between Them (tinyurl.com/bdetj2ff)%E2...: My top five dumbest sports.

#writing #musicwriting #music #livemusic #wilco #waxahatchee #livemusic #NASCAR #America #essay #friendship #sports #hockey #UFC #golf #quidditch
May 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Great art talk @ #EquityGallery tonight featuring Melanie Vote and the #Bread&RosesStudio. Very proud of Candice Spry & Madison Haws. Incredible work. Incredible artists. On until May 31st. 👩‍🎨

More info: www.nyartistsequity.org/all-events/b...

#scuplture #art #arttalk #artsky #NYC #LES #sculptors
May 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Excited and sad to say goodbye to #StarWars' #Andor tonight. Probably my favorite TV series since The Leftovers. I wish it could go on, but I've seen #RogueOne, so I know where it ends. Here's my essay on the series from last week.

mikespry.substack.com/p/oh-star-wa...
May 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Midday thru S2 of NECo. Let's review the #essays so far:

Is This #TheLastofUs?
tinyurl.com/48zwfwna

No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On #Horror
tinyurl.com/yyer7kac

All the Young Dudes: #Masculinity and #Music
tinyurl.com/bd8k2c8j

Oh, Star Wars! On #Andor and #Authoritarianism
tinyurl.com/bddyr2s3
May 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Video addendum to essay on #Andor and how it’s relevant in the current battle against fascism and bad Star Wars productions: “BUTIF” starring @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov & others. Guess who Vader is?

READ ESSAY: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

#starwars #writing #tv #disneyplus #disney+
May 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ICYMI: "Oh, Star Wars! Tony Gilroy’s #Andor is the masterpiece post-original trilogy Star Wars we deserve."

#amwriting ##MayThe4thBeWithYou #starwarsday #starwars #RogueOne #lucasfilm #mandalorian #disney #darthvader #TV #watching #monmothma #starwarsandor #MayThe4th
May 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ICYMI: I wrote this thing about music this week, and I like it, so maybe you'll like it too? mikespry.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
May 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In anticipation of writing about the power of music, the absence of substance in current musicians, and Gord Downie (read: tinyurl.com/bd8k2c8j), I watched some Hip and some music docs for my ##letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched.

The Last Waltz
Secret Path
Dig!
No Dress Rehearsal
May 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As a #video addendum to this week's essay "All the Young Dudes: What the world needs now is another #GordDownie" (read: tinyurl.com/bd8k2c8j), I read one of my favorites, “At the Hundredth Meridian” by #TheTragicallyHip as a #poem

#musicwriting #writing #poetsky #poetsofbluesky #poetry #blueskypoet
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Narrator: Unfortunately for Poilievre, Canadians stopped buying it. #cndpoli
April 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Canada needs to say goodbye to the Pierre Poilievre movement this weekend. We need humanity and empathy not division and hate. #never51 #elbowsup #cdnpoli
April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Addendum to my essay on discovering horror at 48, and the lessons I’ll take into my own writing. Thought I’d share an old fear.

READ ESSAY: mikespry.substack.com/p/no-longer-...

#A24 #blumhouse #jordanpeele #genre #TheLastofUs #film #writing #horrormovies #ariaster #midsommar #amwriting #whyiwrite
April 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
While in Toronto, will you visit Little Italy? #neverforget
April 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sinners had the 2nd-best Monday ever for R horror. I love Coogler and MBJ, but can I handle it? And in a theater? IN IMAX!???! Never done horror with a crowd b4.

On me being a scaredy cat: mikespry.substack.com/p/no-longer-...

#HorrorAuthor 🖊️📚💻 #horror #sinners #vampire #movies #writing #whywrite
April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
SUNDAY FEELD NOTES 20.05.2025
- Essay on #TheLastofUs
- Catherine O'Hara's "Post-Apocalypse Therapy"
- My #Easter #poem from my 2008 collection, JACK, "Calculated Distractions in the Absence of Someone Named Jane"
#amwriting #poetry #booksky #poemsky #writing

mikespry.substack.com/p/sunday-fee...
April 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Dear Media,

Stop profiling these half-wits and their regressive ideology as if it’s a thing. They do not matter. Try covering the apocalypse better.

Thx,

M
April 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
ICYMI: In which I explore #TheLastofUs and post-apocalyptic narratives as an examination of the now.

#HBO #TLOU #horror #postapocalyptic #substack #essays #amwriting #writing

mikespry.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
April 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week’s video addendum to #TheLastofUs essay, “Is This The Last of Us? Speculative fiction and reality intersect“: My therapy session with Catherine O’Hara, #TLOU resident shrink.

Link: mikespry.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

#HBO #TheLastofUs #catherineohara #gaming #TV #apocalypse #zombies
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On The Last of Us, authoritarianism, and whether or not I could survive the zombie apocalypse.

mikespry.substack.com/p/is-this-th... #TheLastofUs #TLOU #TVsky
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hiatus over. NECo. is back today. Essay posts at noon. In the meantime, here's Dave, who has also been waiting patiently.
April 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
RIP, Nicky Katt. The ultimate high school villain in the ultimate high school film, Dazed & Confused.
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So, in summary: The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson's Indiana Jones. My nana loved Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was the original Kardashian. Cranston + Hanks = Love. Where's Bill?

🧵9/9
April 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM