it’s just a flesh wound

Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib’d their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas’d to the last, he crops the flow’ry food, And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n, That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heav’n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. —Alexander Pope

thx for making things!!

it’s funny how much more difficult it is to name a character in a contemporary setting #WritingCommunity

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maybe you’d like to play some super short #Bitsy games this Sunday afternoon— in this post I share some I enjoy— and a couple I am making

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema (Some Kurosawa Paintings) YouTube video by William J. Meyer

Yesterday was the birthday of Akira Kurosawa. Perhaps you would enjoy some of his paintings. #FilmSky

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thx! I had a vague memory y’all had an artjam or something, just checked and found it there

The Scythian from SWORD & SWORCERY hangs on a precipice as a three-eyed friend awaits her in darkness. The Scythian wears a shield on her back. She dropped her sword.

looking forward to reading this! made this fanart back then

I hiked up to the Hollywood Sign recently… if you want to see some images from its vantage point, here are a few

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A book: ‘The Story I Tell Myself’ by Hazel Barnes. A dvd: ‘The Earrings of Madame De…’ directed by Max Ophuls.

enjoyed the 1962 Hazel Barnes tv series on existentialism ‘Self-Encounter’ w/its jazzy skits and dance interludes, so figured I’d read her 1996 autobiography— the tv series gets two pages, she says the master tapes were destroyed, what are the recordings online, affiliate copies? curious

Why 1983’s Apocalypse Film ‘Testament’ Feels Timelier Than Ever: “The Terror Now Is That We Will Attack” Its Oscar-nominated star Jane Alexander and director Lynne Littman join It Happened in Hollywood to discuss the groundbreaker, which also features Kevin Costner in his first screen role.

listening to this new interview with director Lynne Littman and actor Jane Alexander about their 1983 nuclear war film TESTAMENT

“The terror then … was that we would be attacked. The terror now … is that we will attack.” -Littman

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watched Siskel & Ebert review TESTAMENT just weeks before THE DAY AFTER— Ebert calls it one of the best films of the year, suggests Jane Alexander should be Oscar nominated (she will be), Siskel admires ending but wishes movie had a jokester-naysayer character, Ebert calls this suggestion obscene

it’s a wonderful film, wish we had more of her work to enjoy

Director Lynne Littman was one of the original six members of the DGA’s Women’s Steering Committee. TESTAMENT (1983) was her only feature. #FilmSky

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TESTAMENT (1983): A Nuclear Attack on Yosemite YouTube video by CRITERION

“Must have been a mistake. There’s nothing strategic there.”

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Human Voices Only 2025 YouTube video by William J. Meyer

November 21, 2025 celebrated Human Voices Only. Narrators + writers collaborated to celebrate audio production centered on the human voice. Performers @shiromispeaks.com + @dcasellian.com read excerpts from my writing. I combined their readings into this video and added sound design. #AudioFiction

Thinking Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Iran, Strongmen, and more YouTube video by Victor Shi

this insightful conversation between Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat is both an evisceration and a delineation of current events

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when I go walking in the hills and the coyote pack starts yipping I say to them in my thoughts “come to me my children” and imagine them carrying me off into the wilderness

No, that was in Milan.

1934 black and white photograph of a giant representation of the face of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging on the facade of Palazzo Braschi in Rome, Italy. The face is surrounded by the word "SI" (yes) repeated in twelves columns and eleven rows. Unknown photographer.

1934 black and white photograph of a giant representation of the face of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging on the facade of Palazzo Braschi in Rome, Italy. The face is surrounded by the word "SI" (yes) repeated in twelves columns and eleven rows. Unknown photographer.

This is very funny to me.

“I am not interested in cyberpunk. I don’t have the desire to live in a world that looks like a landfill.”
—Mamoru Oshii

Book vs. Movie: Jane Eyre (1943, 1983, 1996, 2006, 2011) YouTube video by By the Book

“Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?”

I like how they play the same moment from each JANE EYRE adaptation— saw the Fontaine version early in my Welles journey, so ought to see it again— and the Dalton series looks fun #BookSky

well that was an insta-block

This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps

I saw someone say a story could offer “a howl, a hug, or hope” and think that’s pretty good #WritingCommunity

went to a Renee Good rally in Los Feliz today

I miss the gentle weight of a cat sitting on my chest.