I will recommend Peking Opera Blues to anyone who will listen

Memorizing this

very excited to have this out there! was a blast talking to Jason about this movie

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

happy to share a project I've been working on with @austeng.bsky.social for the past few months -- Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck! more info to come soon

i will take care of all your dogs after the rapture dm me

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...

i feel like when i don't have nipples anymore i will become a more enlightened being

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

I still exist!

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern. But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws. Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

AT: the new-play results nationwide... are very close to [gender] parity after all the nationwide new play results: 51% cis men, 44% cis women, 5% nonbinary, trans, or Two-Spirit people

i just use it for the one thing | patreon.com/lubchansky

🔮 Our neighborhood mystic, Madame J, has seen the future… and it needs YOU! Spookyville: Haunted Alley runs on volunteer magic. Sign up to help conjure the spookiest night of the year on October 24: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

it's out, it's in the world!! tune in to our main podcast feed for the first two episodes of our season of @stillfleet.bsky.social — listen to our brief Explainer to get a sense of how the game works + why we were so excited to play it on the podcast, then dive into our first actual-play episode 👾

gonna get a patent for the hero’s journey

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

i haven’t heard christian horner talk in weeks and i just think that’s beautiful

i got some kickass portraits taken last week

Googling the great What's More Punk than the Public Library shirt, created to support the friends of a DC public library, and seeing links to copies on fucking Amazon, is the sort of thing that gets one's blood pressure up early. Buy the real thing here. mtpfriends.bigcartel.com/product/what...

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

this was a fun one: i got to chat with Alice Wu about the new Criterion release of Saving Face. we talked rom-coms, love, betting on yourself, and revisiting such a personal project decades later. pvguide.ghost.io/alice-wu-int...

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

today in pocket theatre, i write abt being in theatre's wilderness. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

Ferrari Dutch GP 2025:

mamma mia

me looking ahead at the DC mayoral election: lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others…

#Ward4 neighbors: please don't order any food delivery right now if you can help it. Delivery drivers are being targeted heavily in our neighborhoods.

I wrote about KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE for my reader's choice series, and elaborated on why Hayao Miyazaki is so great at making films for children. www.patreon.com/posts/136957...

constant reminders that we live in a world where people have been so alienated from their emotions that to feel them and be human feels like violation. what wonders we can behold in this bold and glorious dystopia.

🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽

very happy to share that I have moved PV Guide from Substack to Ghost. thank you to everyone who helped make it happen! if you haven't subscribed, now's a great time to do so. support independent media and ditch the algorithm with me for curated entertainment recommendations! pvguide.ghost.io

Fuck you, you can’t break us

DC is a great city filled with great people, plagued by the actions of politicians and lobbyists who don't live here. Today is the latest instance of DC's lack of autonomy -- after years of elected Democrats refusing to support DC statehood -- being weaponized to enact racist and harmful policies.

as an artist your political intervention, the way you mark the world, is the WORK. so if your art is any good at all, a few times in your life the devil is gonna come knock on your door, and he's going to be holding a big bag of money so as an artist you have to be ready

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

We're back! Purchasing the Queer Games Bundle for $60 (or $10+) is a direct action that you can take right now to support queer people in a life-changing way, and in exchange, you get over 600 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games and artworks. itch.io/b/3062/

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications! I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece. Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

lando’s tires!!

The main goal for most influencers now is for you to buy into the idea that if you buy whatever they're selling, you too will become an influencer. It's much easier than ever having to sell anything of value.

I'm looking to commission an artist who can illustrate a fun logo for an upcoming podcast, and I'm not sure where to look. Suggestions/links to artist portfolios very welcome!

if you really wanted to be an ally, you’d transition 😌

i am slowly refinding all the incredible writers i followed on twitter and still feeling upset (and silly?) at the loss i felt leaving that platform

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

If you donate to the Gaza Soup Kitchen and send me proof I will send you digital copies of all my games and zines. gazasoupkitchen.com

it’s nothing in the scheme of things but I hate that GenAI makers & pushers commandeered the sparkle icon