Stephen Saperstein Frug
@stephenfrug.bsky.social
I am writing essays (http://stephenfrug.substack.com) and a mosaic story (https://tinyurl.com/5n8h9a89) & wrote a graphic novel, Happenstance (https://happenstance.thecomicseries.com/)
Other artistic reference: xkcd.com/2910/
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Other artistic reference: xkcd.com/2910/
I wish I knew who did this because this is !@#$%^ hilarious.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I wish I knew who did this because this is !@#$%^ hilarious.
So my latest story has been published. It's called "Ordinal Unknown", and it is the third story in the second movement of my story mosaic Retcon (the twelfth story overall, of a projected 27). You can find it at my web site (shorturl.at/VlxLt) & all the usual places. Check it out!
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So my latest story has been published. It's called "Ordinal Unknown", and it is the third story in the second movement of my story mosaic Retcon (the twelfth story overall, of a projected 27). You can find it at my web site (shorturl.at/VlxLt) & all the usual places. Check it out!
Honestly this explains a lot.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Honestly this explains a lot.
The first passage is from Stanislaw Lem's brilliant novel The Cyberiad (as translated by Michael Kandel); the second is me with ChatGPT.
August 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The first passage is from Stanislaw Lem's brilliant novel The Cyberiad (as translated by Michael Kandel); the second is me with ChatGPT.
The next story in my story series (about a secret research program into time travel) has now been published! It's called "Paradigm Shift: Paradigm Slippage: Paradigm Boogie-Woogie", and is the 2nd story in the 2nd movement (11th overall). Check it out:
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August 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The next story in my story series (about a secret research program into time travel) has now been published! It's called "Paradigm Shift: Paradigm Slippage: Paradigm Boogie-Woogie", and is the 2nd story in the 2nd movement (11th overall). Check it out:
stephenfrug.com/product/para...
stephenfrug.com/product/para...
Seen on the intertubes.
July 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Seen on the intertubes.
Happy Bastille day!
July 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Bastille day!
Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek).
June 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek).
I have a new essay up (first in far too long), check it out:
stephenfrug.substack.com/p/the-differ...
stephenfrug.substack.com/p/the-differ...
June 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have a new essay up (first in far too long), check it out:
stephenfrug.substack.com/p/the-differ...
stephenfrug.substack.com/p/the-differ...
Basically this:
May 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Basically this:
But even more impressive is the story Moore did for Tomorrow Stories #2, where over eight pages he told a story *all* in building cutouts, moving through each of four floors, where each floor represented a different decade. Here's the opening page:
May 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
But even more impressive is the story Moore did for Tomorrow Stories #2, where over eight pages he told a story *all* in building cutouts, moving through each of four floors, where each floor represented a different decade. Here's the opening page:
I really love this one from Alan Moore & J. H. Williams III Promethea, the top 2/3 of the two-page layout:
May 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I really love this one from Alan Moore & J. H. Williams III Promethea, the top 2/3 of the two-page layout:
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using GIFs.
(“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Disney)
(“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Disney)
May 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using GIFs.
(“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Disney)
(“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Disney)
It's a word from the movie Annie Hall. (A joke there, of course) Perhaps it was intended as a reference?
February 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's a word from the movie Annie Hall. (A joke there, of course) Perhaps it was intended as a reference?
I think about this tweet* from @gerrycanavan.bsky.social all the fucking time. If you gloss over the second line (a non trivial alteration but I think a defensible one), he's so far spot on.—Alas.
* Yes, but it was back when it was actually Twitter.
* Yes, but it was back when it was actually Twitter.
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think about this tweet* from @gerrycanavan.bsky.social all the fucking time. If you gloss over the second line (a non trivial alteration but I think a defensible one), he's so far spot on.—Alas.
* Yes, but it was back when it was actually Twitter.
* Yes, but it was back when it was actually Twitter.
Claim: "This is different from a Nazi salute. With the Roman Salute you put your hand to your heart before extending your arm."
Counterpoint:
Counterpoint:
January 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Claim: "This is different from a Nazi salute. With the Roman Salute you put your hand to your heart before extending your arm."
Counterpoint:
Counterpoint:
Crypto promoters complaining about Trump's new crypto scam.
January 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Crypto promoters complaining about Trump's new crypto scam.
Crypto promoters complaining about Trump's new crypto scam.
January 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Crypto promoters complaining about Trump's new crypto scam.
I am currently publishing a mosaic story—a series of short stories (a projected 27 in total) which, read together, make up one big story. It's divided into three subsections, which I am calling "movements". And the first story of the second movement is now out! Here's a picture of the cover.
October 10, 2024 at 12:35 AM
I am currently publishing a mosaic story—a series of short stories (a projected 27 in total) which, read together, make up one big story. It's divided into three subsections, which I am calling "movements". And the first story of the second movement is now out! Here's a picture of the cover.