Long Vo

I wrote an end of the year essay on how success can still live with voids, Thunderbolts*, and why I thought "Golden" was a sad song
longvo.substack.com/p/on-success...

Appreciate this pep talk by @alexanderchee.bsky.social who reminds us that "there's more of us than there are of them" & to keep at our art in these times. "Don’t forget the bright dream inside, the need you feel to partake of it or to add to it, the point of it all." mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...

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Well good thing you're in your grave

Actor Michael B. Jordan on Sesame Street posing next to vampire puppet, The Count.

Sinners (2025)

How far will the burning man crowd will eventually go right?

financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple

Chrono Trigger: If history is to change, let it change! Saying something nice about Chrono Trigger doesn’t take a lot of effort. Its quality and importance are so universally agreed upon that to even suggest it’s anything less than utterly a…

I like to think I'm pretty good at not kissing a legendary game's ass just because I'm supposed to, so when I do pile on the praise I hope it has some weight, sincerity, and meaning to it:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/03/09/i...

Sentence I actually just typed in a text thread: "sorry to disappear for a sec there, was busy quietly radicalizing my mom"

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Inevitable "writer's block" It's not as bad as you think

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New lil update and thoughts about writers block.. when it's good for you

But it was a different time back then, some thought assimilation and punching down on being Asian was the only way to move forward. I'm so grateful for K-Pop being in the mainstream and we are worth our own agency

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I remember hearing APT for her first time, watching the music video with a smile as you can't fake that chemistry, they're happiness was so contagious.

Part of me wanted to go back and shove this song in her face to say, " we don't need sell outs like you to Asians..."
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I remember sitting with two Asian women chatting years ago, Bruno Mars topic came up b/c he won a Grammy for "Uptown Funk."

Her: "but he's so short though."

Me: "um how tall are you?"

Her being dismissive: " I get it, colonialism." And then pushed the conversation somewhere else ignoring me.

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The Jedi Academy Will No Longer Teach Anakin Skywalker’s Massacre of the Younglings “The new Republican governor of Arkansas, Sarah Sanders, said the move to ban critical race theory in public schools in her state was a preventativ...

"The goal of our academy is to forge great leaders, not to create activist, political progressives who tear down the Jedi Order from within."

it is an immense honor to have contributed this piece of poetry to the book

Introducing...Notes 📱🗒️

Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors.

Let me back cut you

It's time to discover Prince - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Oh! And: it's time to discover Prince. www.anildash.com/2017/02/12/i...

Nikki Giovanni smiling with hands clasped

Rise in eternal power Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943-December 9, 2024) to whom we owe so immeasurably much. 🕊️

Yeah I know he wrote something about love and violence with UFC, so I'm ready for this poem

Whatever's going on here, take my money

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Hi! Didn't really read what you wrote but have some feedback

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Amtrak teaching me how to fight is wild

I'll ask @franmirabella.bsky.social if he wants one

Cop or nah?