Mike Spry

The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

I’m too sad to write any Sunday Feeld Notes today because hockey broke my heart. If it broke yours, maybe read this instead to remind us that the beauty of sports exists outside of the spotlight.

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The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

The Ethos of Eephus

Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country.

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The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

The Ethos of Eephus

Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country.

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We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive a review of Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" for BOA Editions.

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive"
----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency"

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#poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday of jingoism and Ozempic ads

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26

I’m going to make chili and cheer for a tie. Wouldn’t we all just rather watch Kid Rock and Bad Bunny in a celebrity boxing match?

My Super Bowl column/self-indictment: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show

Honestly, f*ck all these people. F*ck these colleges. F*ck the institutions and communities that were complicit in this division of class and the perpetuation of evil.

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Sunday Feeld Notes 01.01.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in the time of feelings

Sunday Feeld Notes 01.02.2026

So many feelings this week: Loving @thedollop.bsky.social, Sophie Turner and Steal, not SNL, not the weather, and not the Super Bowl. Plus, last week's and this week's essays.

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ICYMI: I wrote about GenX, hauntology, Stranger Things, and futures lost.

Shoutout my friend the Poet Emily Siegenthaler for helping keep twenty twenty-somethings alive for a month in Tokyo.

#mamiya #film #photography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatfilmphotography #colorphoto #tokyo #japan

ICYMI: I wrote about GenX, hauntology, Stranger Things, and futures lost.

Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation

"Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation"

New essay on #StrangerThings, hauntology, and the quiet disappearance of expectation.

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#GenX #Hauntology #PLUR1BUS

Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation

"Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation"

New essay on #StrangerThings, hauntology, and the quiet disappearance of expectation.

mikespry.substack.com/p/haunted-by...

#GenX #Hauntology #PLUR1BUS

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#35mmfilm #35mm #35mmphotography #leica #leicam6 #film #photography #filmphotography

A New Hero: A Review of 'Designated Stranger' by Gion Davis Distance, Strangeness, and Intimacy in Gion Davis’ debut collection “Designated Stranger” for Third Hand Books

Happy #pubday to @gion.bsky.social! His debut collection 'Designated Stranger' for @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social

Read the first piece in my new series of reviews of poetry collections from independent presses. ----> tinyurl.com/bdhx6aux

#poemsky #WritingCommunity #booksky #5amwritersclub #substack

Sunday Feeld Notes 18.01.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in chaos

Sunday Feeld Notes: prediction markets, Netflix doom,+ why everything feels like satire.

🧠 Prediction markets=existential threat
🎬 Netflix & #TheRip
🐴 Ponies is low-key kinda great
🎥 Deep Local & Poems by Sean Bates = cultural sherpas

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#NECo #MediaCriticism

Dabls Mbad African bead Museum Detroit, MI

#mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #colorphoto

YouTube video by Deep Local Deep Local | Ep. 4: Sleepwalker

Deep Local | Ep.4: Sleepwalker

#digitalshort #digitalphotography #canon5d

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Blue banner, white text reading Indie Press Poetry: A Series of Reviews. Background is a green backyard.

ANNOUNCING--- Indie Press Poetry: A Series of Reviews

This winter I’ll be reviewing a new collection each week from #poets published on independent presses. Each book is a reccommendation from a friend or mentor.

Follow along here: tinyurl.com/3w5zwywv

#writingcommunity #poemsky #booksky #poems

Sunday Feeld Notes 11.01.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in Vermont

Sunday Feeld Notes 11.01.2026

On #DCBDay, OBAA, Twitter/X, His & Hers, and more from Vermont on a Sunday morning. NECo. Season Three is coming Wednesday!

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PREDICTION: In tomorrow's #strangerthings secret ep, #conformitygate, Ell is going to wake up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette.

Somehow I forgot #Andor!!! I guess I thought it came out in 2024. This year was 36 months long.

Sunday Feeld Notes 04.01.2026 Lists I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in the bad timeline

Just dropped my 2025 year-in-review: long drives, too much media, strong opinions. Best albums, TV, books, AI (I named mine Gary), and the stuff I still don’t get. Real feels only.
👉 mikespry.substack.com/p/sunday-feeld-notes-04012026
#SundayFeeldNotes #YearInReview #Substack #CultureNotes #AI #NECo

Did anyone work on a Project 2026?

Thanks to everyone who read, shared, argued, and stuck around this year. Narrative Electric Co. stays powered because of you.
#YearInWriting #SubstackEssays #IndependentWriting

All the Young Dudes What the world needs now is another Gord Downie, but we might be alright with Jesse Welles and MJ Lenderman

10/10 🎸
All the Young Dudes
Music that still sounds like honesty, place, and human voice — and why that matters now.
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#MusicEssay #AltCountry #IndieRock #NarrativeElectricCo

TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation — Now It’s Just a Door to More On the loss of communal viewing, weekly conversation, and shared cultural time.

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TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation — Now It’s Just a Door to More Content
On the loss of communal viewing, weekly conversation, and shared cultural time.
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#TVStudies #StreamingCulture #MediaCriticism #NarrativeElectricCo

No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On Finding Horror Once the Nightmares Stopped A personal turn toward horror — and what fear reveals once it’s no longer consuming you.

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No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On Finding Horror Once the Nightmares Stopped
A personal turn toward horror — and what fear reveals once it’s no longer consuming you.
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#HorrorWriting #GenreEssay #PersonalWriting #NarrativeElectricCo

Oh, Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars, Give me those Star Wars, Don't let them end Tony Gilroy’s Andor is the masterpiece post-original trilogy Star Wars we deserve

7/10 ⭐
Oh, Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars…
Why Andor worked — and what it proves about risk, politics, and adult storytelling in franchise culture.
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#StarWars #Andor #FranchiseCulture #NarrativeElectricCo

The Music Dance Experience is Officially Cancelled The Argument for Revolt and Dissent in Severance

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The Music Dance Experience Is Officially Cancelled
Severance, dissent, corporate theater, and why dissonance still matters in storytelling.
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#TVAnalysis #Severance #PopCulture #NarrativeElectricCo