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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime
@noahjnelson.com
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Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org

Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.

Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.

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It’s been a great week for last page reveals.
A hand holds up copies of Batman #5, Knightfight #3, and Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #6
January 9, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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Was worth it cuz I got the shot.
The skyline of San Francisco on an overcast night as seen from a vantage point on the Bay itself, the buildings glowing luminously with the iconic Ferry Building low and just left of center in the shot.
January 4, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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For real.

(Seen in Berkeley.)
A No Kings flier that reads: NO KINGS KNEW IT'D BE BAD, BUT HOLY SHIT 8647
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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It’s been *cough cough* years since I last cracked this one open…
A copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on a diner counter in front of a cup of Joe and a Rock-Ola jukebox terminal.
January 2, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Anyone got a quarter?

I wanna make everyone here have to listen to Tusk with me.
A list of jukebox options labeled as “Fleetwood Mac’s Best”: FLEETWOOD MAC'S BEST 4601 Rhiannon 4602 Don't Stop 4603 Go Your Own Way 4604 Hold Me 4605 Everywhere 4606 Gypsy 4607 You Make Loving Fun 4608 As Long As You Follow 4609 Dreams 4610 Say You Love Me 4611 Tusk 4612 Little Lies 4613 Sara 4614 Big Love 4615 Over My Head 4616 No Questions Asked
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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There are TVs everywhere these days, in places they should not be.

The one upside: when IT finally happens we’ll know so fast.

After that, maybe people will take the TVs down as they will have fulfilled their purpose.
A TV mounted off the ceiling of a diner, the kitchen beyond it, the corner of a Rock-Ola jukebox terminal in frame.
January 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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When in Rome…
A countertop Rock-Ola jukebox terminal, styled to look like a jukebox from the 1950’s and a menu from Mel’s Drive-In.
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Didn’t have “ramen and a beer” on my Christmas Eve pre-movie list but when the opportunity arises and there’s no one in the ramen place…
A bowl of Shoyu ramen with chicken and a half a soft boiled egg and a mug of beer, specifically Sapporo.
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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My Christmas reading.

All thanks to a thread tens days ago here.

I’m engrossed. I’m obsessed.
A copy of Jon Peterson’s The Elusive Shift. A white trade paperback sized book with the red silhouette of a dragon head that reveals a labyrinth inside its outline. The book has the subtitle of “How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity.”
December 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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And hey: we’re ALL prone to it, so it’s a good time to remind ourselves of the breaking news protocols.
Screen shot: BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER'S HANDBOOK 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trust anonymous sources. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. • "We are getting reports".. could mean anything. • "We are seeking confirmation". "... means they don't have it. • "[News outlet] has learned".. means it has a scoop or is going out on limb. 6. Look for news outlets close to the incident. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you. ON [THE MEDIA]
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Shout out to the Canadian broadcast techs who brought us today’s entertainment.
A screenshot from the series Andor, featuring one person with cybernetic headgear and a shaped head, and another person standing in a hallway. In the show these two characters prevent Mon Mothma from going off the air.
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I’ll give the people on Threads this:

They are SAVAGE.
A screenshot of two posts from Threads: thereallindadonahue I grieved the death of Ned Stark longer than Erika Kirk has mourned her husband. pflukejennifer I grieved the deaths of the Rogue One crew longer than Erika Kirk has mourned her husband.
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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When Galaxy’s Edge first opened I built my lightsaber.

Silly as it is, it was a profound experience for me.

Within nine months the chassis, the electronics that make it work, stoped working.

Today, years later, I finally brought it in for service.

For less than $22 it’s working again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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We have high confidence intelligence that the Imperial Remnant is moving to retake Spellhaus.

We need to act now.
Cerk Tython, detailed to Alliance Intelligence, makes his case for moving on Spellhaus. (A serious looking dude with a beard points to a spot on one of those translucent garlic maps endemic to Star Wars.)
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Anyone need a sewing kit tin?
Multiple stacks of round butter cookie tins in a bin at a discount store, the kind that get repurposed for sewing kits and junk people don’t want to get rid of.
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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It’s giving guy who’s only seen one movie who goes to a costumes mandatory party.
Some kind of grey Star Wars tunic, a lightsaber, and two Stone Xocovesa Tres Leches cans.
December 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Remember: if you’re hitting the club tonight bring protection. #cortosis #renhive
The selfie of absolute dork in a dark grey bomber jacket with a hoodie wearing THE STRANGER’s helmet from Star Wars: The Acolyte. Said helmet looks like a kind of beat up bronze-like mask with a skeletal grin made of salvaged industrial parts
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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A very foggy Los Feliz with the House of Pies sign wreathed in the dense stuff.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Facebook is very eager to tell me that the post where I told everyone my mother died is doing NUMBERS.
Two facebook notifications: Notification 1: You published 4 more posts in the last 7 days and got 58K% more engagement. 18h Notification two: Congrats! Because you've posted high- ... quality content, we're showing it to more people.
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Someone may be being a little brat of late but for two decades I’ve wanted to see if Vol. 2 is better when it’s stapled onto Vol. 1 (which was one of my favorite movies when it came out).
The outside of the Vista movie theater in Los Angeles. The marquee reads: IN 70MM KILL BILL THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A seat with my name on it complete with mole and chips.

I feel seen.

#alifeintheatre
A brown wooden chair under purple light. a rectangle of paper states “RESERVED” and the name “NOAH NELSON”. A small tray of tortilla chips with a plastic container of a sauce sit on the chair.
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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The last year and a half were the hardest, as I was the primary caretaker. There were a lot of opportunities I had to pass by. A lot of fights I didn't have the strength to fight. That era is drawing to a close. I find myself blessed to have family — both blood and chosen - and friends who are taking care of me as I'm taking care of this. I turn to that knowledge about every third breath. We we also blessed to have an incredible caretaker with us for the past seven years, coming in a few days a week to help keep everything on track and give me time and headspace to work, something that is near impossible when caring for someone who is bedridden. Our society is NOT structured to support those who are caring for elders. We seem to be a little better about grief, but I'll reserve judgement until I'm done with the bureaucracy of this moment. I know this lived experience is going to inform a good chunk of what I do going forward. There's so much more to say. For now, I'm going to take care of what needs to be taken care of and rest in the knowledge that the constant pain she experienced, and the anguish that her mental illness could cause her, no longer plague her. And in the knowledge that she left this world in her own bed, in her sleep.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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If you've been waiting on something from me... well you might have to wait a little bit longer. Come Jan, for certain, you'll wish I was less present and attentive.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Amie was my oldest friend, l've spent a half century on this planet with her. She has been my protector, my advocate, my antagonist, my cheerleader, and in the end was my ward. Mil never have another connection like that as long as I live. I was, of course, the same for her, albeit in reverse order. In all those ways in which I've been her son, I don't know what being on this planet is like without having that role in the present tense. Amie's life was not easy. Those are her stories. Maybe I'II tell some of them one day. I regret the ones I will never know, and cherish the ones - good and bad - that I have. That have shaped me. Above all else one thing she told me as a boy has shaped me as a man, a writer, and when I have to be, a leader: "Consider the source." Pretty good advice to give anyone, especially someone who spends time as a journalist. l've been lucky to make other friends who have lasted on the decade time scale and one of them was with me as I dealt with the physical logistics on the morning of. (Thank you, Eli.) I hope you are so lucky. It's not too late to start. I'm hip deep in logistics for this. I've discharged the duty of letting those who knew her find out in a way other than a random social media post. I'm also behind work, of course.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Time to start doing this part... My mother, Amie Margaret Chayes, passed away on Wednesday morning. She was 79, and it was not unexpected, but the last day was sudden and so very strange. The last two years have been very rough. In Feb of '24 she began to lose the ability to walk, a devastating blow to someone who trained in and taught dance. We discovered a cervical spinal injury that spring that had got undiagnosed after a fall as far back as 2018. Back when she still lived alone and far from me. She had spinal surgery to prevent further loss of function, but never recovered the ability to stand. When I was a boy my mom and I visited a nursing home, exploring whether it would be good for us to volunteer our time there. My mother's schizophrenia would lead her to the occasional impulsive exploration in those days. What we saw frightened me and disturbed her. When we left she asked me to promise her I would never put her in a home. I kept that promise. It was, in many ways, my oldest pledge to another person, and that duty was fully discharged on December 3, 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM