Dominic Umile
@dominicumile.com
Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, WCP, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. SEO person. Brooklyn, NY.
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· Apr 30
A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel by a "Disappeared" Argentinian Writer
It’s as if Oesterheld was telegraphing in The Eternaut the horrors that would befall him at the hands of his own repellent government.
hyperallergic.com
An adaptation of The Eternaut debuts today on Netflix—it's based on a late 1950s-era science fiction comic scripted by visionary Argentine writer Héctor Oesterheld. I wrote about The Eternaut in 2016 for @hyperallergic.com. The new series looks promising hyperallergic.com/269426/a-pos...
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lolllll thanks homie, wild that so much else has happened since! youtu.be/wwyEbu9jly8
Nas - Heaven
YouTube video by HIPHOPCLAZZIKS
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
lolllll thanks homie, wild that so much else has happened since! youtu.be/wwyEbu9jly8
"If you aren’t plugged in to the incestuous world of glossy coastal media" and even if you are actively avoiding mentions of this stuff because who cares, I learned from and LOL'd at @nitishpahwa.com's explainer here. No heaven for you my man
this is certainly going to keep me out of heaven, but here's my exhaustive breakdown—with fresh reporting on some past artifacts—of the recent drama surrounding Olivia "Livvy" Nuzzi, from RFK Jr. to the comeback tour to the new allegations to the rediscovery of "Jailbait" slate.com/business/202...
She Was Once a Rising Star in Political Media. Then She Had an Affair With RFK Jr.—and It Gets Weirder From There.
From affairs with big-name politicians to a MySpace-era pop song, the journalist’s comeback attempt is hitting a few bumps along the way.
slate.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"If you aren’t plugged in to the incestuous world of glossy coastal media" and even if you are actively avoiding mentions of this stuff because who cares, I learned from and LOL'd at @nitishpahwa.com's explainer here. No heaven for you my man
"If anything, I hope that our presence can be a hub for whatever is happening and in truth there’s a real renaissance in lower Manhattan" — great Q&A w/ station manager Brian Turner on @eastvillageradio.bsky.social and its return www.radiocult.fm/customer-sto...
East Village Radio: Rebuilding a Legendary Voice in Independent Radio
East Village Radio is a legendary independent NYC radio station. Learn how they are building back better than ever.
www.radiocult.fm
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"If anything, I hope that our presence can be a hub for whatever is happening and in truth there’s a real renaissance in lower Manhattan" — great Q&A w/ station manager Brian Turner on @eastvillageradio.bsky.social and its return www.radiocult.fm/customer-sto...
Chuckled along and nodded my head thoroughly during this episode of Bandsplain w/ guest Joe Coscarelli in which they unpack Ondi Timoner’s Dig! documentary on the Brian Jonestown and the Dandy Warhols—agreed newcom(b)ers should seek out the original vs. rerelease www.theringer.com/podcasts/ban...
Movie Night: ‘Dig!’ With Joe Coscarelli - The Ringer
Yasi and Joe Coscarelli revisit ‘Dig!,’ Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary about the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. They discuss the bands’ legacies, the broken friends...
www.theringer.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Chuckled along and nodded my head thoroughly during this episode of Bandsplain w/ guest Joe Coscarelli in which they unpack Ondi Timoner’s Dig! documentary on the Brian Jonestown and the Dandy Warhols—agreed newcom(b)ers should seek out the original vs. rerelease www.theringer.com/podcasts/ban...
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one of the greatest records of all time 10/10.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
one of the greatest records of all time 10/10.
Looking fwd to this—here, also, is @emwhitenoise.bsky.social back in October on "young listeners rejecting algorithms" in favor of college radio programming emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
So great to see college radio in all its glory featured in today's NYT. I interviewed for the piece (WFUV is at Fordham, WFMU is independent, formerly of Uppsala--such is the way with radio, which has more acronyms than the New Deal): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Looking fwd to this—here, also, is @emwhitenoise.bsky.social back in October on "young listeners rejecting algorithms" in favor of college radio programming emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
Mani's fluid, dynamic work on that song is the beating heart of "I Wanna Be Adored," and the Stone Roses' debut is just impeccable from start to finish. Rest in peace ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
RIP, Mani. What a tremendous musical loss. Never have I been so completely drawn in by a record's opening notes than the first time I heard his "I Wanna Be Adored" bassline
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Mani's fluid, dynamic work on that song is the beating heart of "I Wanna Be Adored," and the Stone Roses' debut is just impeccable from start to finish. Rest in peace ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
"Noem is one of several figures—a few men, but mostly women—in President Donald Trump’s orbit to undergo striking physical transformations as the boundaries that once delineated celebrity and political power fully disintegrate" via @motherjones.com in March www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"Noem is one of several figures—a few men, but mostly women—in President Donald Trump’s orbit to undergo striking physical transformations as the boundaries that once delineated celebrity and political power fully disintegrate" via @motherjones.com in March www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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WNYC from this morning!
ICYMI, @chaykak.bsky.social explains how AI music snuck onto our playlists:
www.wnyc.org/story/how-ai...
www.wnyc.org/story/how-ai...
How AI Songs Got on Your Spotify Playlist | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka discusses how songs generated using artificial intelligence are dominating top music charts and streaming services like Spotify
www.wnyc.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
WNYC from this morning!
Lynne Drexler drew on the energy of the opera to create marvelous large-scale canvases and abstract works on paper in the 1970s—glad to catch the @berrycampbell.bsky.social show before it closed berrycampbell.com/exhibitions/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Lynne Drexler drew on the energy of the opera to create marvelous large-scale canvases and abstract works on paper in the 1970s—glad to catch the @berrycampbell.bsky.social show before it closed berrycampbell.com/exhibitions/...
Awww yeah. Nothing says "fire up that cover letter" than a job posted five hours ago with over a 100 applicants. Get crackin'
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Awww yeah. Nothing says "fire up that cover letter" than a job posted five hours ago with over a 100 applicants. Get crackin'
Homophobe fake "edgy" anti-vaxxer Bill Maher still getting people to listen to him and to buy his book (a collection of things he's already said on television, where he masquerades, poorly, as a progressive). Genuinely making people more stupid and hates our incoming mayor, too
Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’
Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’
Bill Maher bashed both Democrats and Republicans during a CNN interview on Sunday, saying Republicans like Trump go "too far" while Dems push "revolutionaries"
The post Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Homophobe fake "edgy" anti-vaxxer Bill Maher still getting people to listen to him and to buy his book (a collection of things he's already said on television, where he masquerades, poorly, as a progressive). Genuinely making people more stupid and hates our incoming mayor, too
I've said "holy cow" more than once about Wayne Shorter's incredible studio output between 1964-65—Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, and more as leader alone—here's @darkforcesswing.bsky.social at Shfl w/ a nice overview of his prolific career generally theshfl.com/collection/W... #jazz
Wayne Shorter
Read Hank Shteamer on Wayne Shorter
theshfl.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I've said "holy cow" more than once about Wayne Shorter's incredible studio output between 1964-65—Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, and more as leader alone—here's @darkforcesswing.bsky.social at Shfl w/ a nice overview of his prolific career generally theshfl.com/collection/W... #jazz
Properly shook! Forty-eight hours ago Trump “hauled Representative Lauren Boebert into the White House Situation Room to try to break her down and make her change her vote on the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition” newrepublic.com/post/203207/...
Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Properly shook! Forty-eight hours ago Trump “hauled Representative Lauren Boebert into the White House Situation Room to try to break her down and make her change her vote on the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition” newrepublic.com/post/203207/...
A great resource (thanks @bourgwick.bsky.social)—Greenpoint locals may have noticed that construction workers unearthed vintage stained-glass signage in late Oct. on Manhattan Ave. (1940s tax photo here) forgotten-ny.com/2025/10/wien... greenpointers.com/2025/11/12/v... #brooklyn
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A great resource (thanks @bourgwick.bsky.social)—Greenpoint locals may have noticed that construction workers unearthed vintage stained-glass signage in late Oct. on Manhattan Ave. (1940s tax photo here) forgotten-ny.com/2025/10/wien... greenpointers.com/2025/11/12/v... #brooklyn
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I was never really crazy about this song, but damn.😭
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I was never really crazy about this song, but damn.😭
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What actually was the difference?
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What actually was the difference?
Lee Morgan's City Lights—as well as his seemingly underrated (?) Sixth Sense LP—is getting the Tone Poet treatment. The early 2000s-era Scorpio reissue we have, a $10 record at the time, is apparently a grail of sorts to at least one Discogs user 🙃 jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/so-many-to...
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Lee Morgan's City Lights—as well as his seemingly underrated (?) Sixth Sense LP—is getting the Tone Poet treatment. The early 2000s-era Scorpio reissue we have, a $10 record at the time, is apparently a grail of sorts to at least one Discogs user 🙃 jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/so-many-to...
All of this is truly disgusting. Truly disgusting men getting rich and amassing power and powerful friends and doing truly disgusting things. So awful
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
All of this is truly disgusting. Truly disgusting men getting rich and amassing power and powerful friends and doing truly disgusting things. So awful
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
Rhino is reissuing deluxe editions of six mono Atlantic-era John Coltrane LPs, 180g, cut from the original analog mono master tapes by Kevin Gray. I deeply love these damn records. Peep those fancy French covers www.rhino.com/article/rhin... #jazz
Rhino Hi-Fi Celebrates John Coltrane's Centennial | 6LP Mono Box Set Spans 1960-1964 Atlantic Albums, Out Nov 28 | Rhino
www.rhino.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Rhino is reissuing deluxe editions of six mono Atlantic-era John Coltrane LPs, 180g, cut from the original analog mono master tapes by Kevin Gray. I deeply love these damn records. Peep those fancy French covers www.rhino.com/article/rhin... #jazz
Sixty years ago, in October of 1965, eight EC horror comics based on Ray Bradbury stories were collected and republished in a paperback book called The Autumn People www.dominicumile.com/blog/ray-bra... #books #comics
Ray Bradbury's The Autumn People and its EC horror comics — Dominic Umile
Eight EC horror comics based on Ray Bradbury stories were shoehorned into a paperback in 1965
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November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Sixty years ago, in October of 1965, eight EC horror comics based on Ray Bradbury stories were collected and republished in a paperback book called The Autumn People www.dominicumile.com/blog/ray-bra... #books #comics
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a massive loss for Indian history and culture. I grew up on these books, as did countless others in the diaspora; you can basically view Amar Chitra Katha as D'Aulaires for ancient Hindu mythology. such a loss www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amar Chitra Katha: Iconic Indian comic publisher loses precious drawings in fire
For millions of Indians, Amar Chitra Katha has been a gateway to stories about religion, mythology and history.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
a massive loss for Indian history and culture. I grew up on these books, as did countless others in the diaspora; you can basically view Amar Chitra Katha as D'Aulaires for ancient Hindu mythology. such a loss www.bbc.com/news/article...
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HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir