Raza Syed
@raza.wtf
Screenwriter in Los Angeles. raza.wtf
Current project: Krapopolis
Current project: Krapopolis
In a distant future, they hoard light. Nearly all the photons are decayed, spent. They build perfect mirrors to cage what little light is left.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In a distant future, they hoard light. Nearly all the photons are decayed, spent. They build perfect mirrors to cage what little light is left.
“To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates…”
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates…”
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates…”
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates…”
Some days I feel like there’s a smaller me sitting in the cockpit of my cranium, piloting the spaceship of my body through the solar system of my relationships.
September 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Some days I feel like there’s a smaller me sitting in the cockpit of my cranium, piloting the spaceship of my body through the solar system of my relationships.
This new Gap spot is as crisply edited, tightly choreographed and sinuously shot as anything they put out during their 1999-2005 advertising heyday.
Better in Denim.
YouTube video by Gap
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August 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This new Gap spot is as crisply edited, tightly choreographed and sinuously shot as anything they put out during their 1999-2005 advertising heyday.
My pet theory as to why our current crop of robber barons is categorically less charitable than their counterparts of yore: while the old-timers were just as obsessed with immortality, they harbored no illusions about its practicality—so they poured their largesse into endowments…
August 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My pet theory as to why our current crop of robber barons is categorically less charitable than their counterparts of yore: while the old-timers were just as obsessed with immortality, they harbored no illusions about its practicality—so they poured their largesse into endowments…
Me anytime anybody mentions Labubus.
a woman sitting at a table with a sign that says " i don 't understand the question "
ALT: a woman sitting at a table with a sign that says " i don 't understand the question "
media.tenor.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Me anytime anybody mentions Labubus.
Anytime I’m in the Pacific Northwest, I’m struck by how girthy the volcanoes are up here. The calderas are so wide. Y’all must get some really chonky plumes.
July 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Anytime I’m in the Pacific Northwest, I’m struck by how girthy the volcanoes are up here. The calderas are so wide. Y’all must get some really chonky plumes.
Between Carrie’s rodent-infested townhouse and Miranda’s red-headed son working at a restaurant, I feel like And Just Like That is about to bless us with a Ratatouille subplot.
June 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Between Carrie’s rodent-infested townhouse and Miranda’s red-headed son working at a restaurant, I feel like And Just Like That is about to bless us with a Ratatouille subplot.
There’s a match cut halfway through Ryan Coogler’s Sinners that merges two wildly disparate impulses of movement into a seamless, visceral motion that made my amygdala glitch with delight. The movie is like that throughout: a giddy amalgam of genres speaking to each other in unexpected ways.
April 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There’s a match cut halfway through Ryan Coogler’s Sinners that merges two wildly disparate impulses of movement into a seamless, visceral motion that made my amygdala glitch with delight. The movie is like that throughout: a giddy amalgam of genres speaking to each other in unexpected ways.
Oh hell yeah.
"Dark City" Is Coming To 4K Disc In June
Arrow Video has announced a June 24th release date for a 4K Ultra HD physical release of Alex Proyas’ acclaimed 1998 sci-fi noir film “Dark City”. The first film shot at Fox Studios Australia (just be...
www.darkhorizons.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Oh hell yeah.
An Android acquaintance is trying to explain the concept of an “Emoji Kitchen” to me, and we’ve determined that it’s vaguely analogous to whatever the hell Genmoji are supposed to be on iOS—only, the latter appear to be an order of magnitude more abominable thanks to the marvels of machine learning.
March 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
An Android acquaintance is trying to explain the concept of an “Emoji Kitchen” to me, and we’ve determined that it’s vaguely analogous to whatever the hell Genmoji are supposed to be on iOS—only, the latter appear to be an order of magnitude more abominable thanks to the marvels of machine learning.
I worry sometimes that there’s a particle horizon for friendships; that as we age, and the time we have left to discover one another diminishes, some parts of ourselves become fundamentally unknowable—perhaps even to ourselves. Human memory is a fever dream, and so is the heat death of the universe.
March 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I worry sometimes that there’s a particle horizon for friendships; that as we age, and the time we have left to discover one another diminishes, some parts of ourselves become fundamentally unknowable—perhaps even to ourselves. Human memory is a fever dream, and so is the heat death of the universe.
I remember one time in college, some friends and I were, ahem, “rolling,” as it were—and in a pique of serotonergic solipsism, I earnestly inquired: “How do we know that we’re friends?”
March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I remember one time in college, some friends and I were, ahem, “rolling,” as it were—and in a pique of serotonergic solipsism, I earnestly inquired: “How do we know that we’re friends?”