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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show

@vmspod.bsky.social

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I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 7h

GIL: Well, my conference prep is done; I can take a leisurely drive down to the venue in Maryland with no stress. Oughtta get down by 4 or so, if there's no traffic

[REDACTED FEDERAL DEPT]: Hey, we really need to get on a Teams call with you at 4pm TODAY.

GIL: [compulsively checks ETA for 4 hours]

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Dean Haspiel @deanhaspiel.bsky.social · 11h

Holy Cow! I'm nearly halfway to my initial funding goal for ANTIMATTER, my new one-man anthology of creator-owned comix. If you haven't yet -- please check out my campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

ANTIMATTER

A One-Man-thology of Dean Haspiel Deep Cuts

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 16h

New #newsletter! We've got my new ep. w/ @tomtomorrow.bsky.social as well as my race against anhedonia, some art, and when I'll get to that new Pynchon novel, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

Witless Odin

A new podcast with Tom Tomorrow, a little art, more thoughts on anhedonia, mortality, vision, wisdom and the new Pynchon novel, and a more

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

(And if you want, you can get in a time machine and listen to us gab in 2015 for his first Kickstarter: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-1... )

Episode 125 – Signal Boost

Virtual Memories Show #125: Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) – Signal Boost “This Kickstarter, this is me, having seen my incredibly negative narrative and hopeless sense of the future just b…

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

And go support the Kickstarter! It closes Oct. 30, 2025, and this one's got more than FIVE YEARS of @tomtomorrow.bsky.social's THIS MODERN WORLD weekly strips! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

New #podcast: @tomtomorrow.bsky.social rejoins the show to talk about his big new #Kickstarter, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE! (We also talk #comics, #politics, life changes, among other stuff.) GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow

Virtual Memories Show 657: Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) “Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.” Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is…

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

Supposedly, the military paycheck of Oct. 15 will be a big pressure point.

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

NOPE. Not until this weekend, when my conference is in the rear-view mirror.

#books #ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket

photo of man holding copy of Thomas Pynchon's 2025 novel, Shadow Ticket, in front of his face

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed @deanhaspiel.bsky.social's ANTIMATTER on @kickstarter.com, and you should, too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

ANTIMATTER

A One-Man-thology of Dean Haspiel Deep Cuts

www.kickstarter.com

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Dan Goldman @ NYCC #K-33 @dangoldman.net · 2d

RED LIGHT PROPERTIES just dropped ep. 3 of “How We Come Back” and this one goes hard: kinjin.co/how-we-come-...

What are you even still doing here?! #horror #comics #miami #haunted

Red Light Properties: How We Come Back, Ep. 3

How we come back is HARD. Big moments this week in a story full of them. You feel me slowly steering us out of the shallows?

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 2d

🔥🔥🔥

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 2d

Please excuse a little self-promotion over the next few weeks as I launch my book. I'm doing a whole bunch of in-person events across the country, but this virtual talk with Doug Stanton for the National Writers Series will be a lot of fun.

nationalwritersseries.org/author-event...

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 3d

The police narrative of Mark Sanchez’s stabbing is truly bizarre, in the sense of “ah I see why they charged the guy who got stabbed.”

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Details of the confrontation were disclosed in the affidavit, based on video footage and the truck driver's statement to police.
The video showed a man believed to be Sanchez running in the alley toward the truck, the affidavit said. The driver works for a company that specializes in commercial cooking oil recycling and disposal, and he was performed his work duties, it said.
Sanchez opened the truck door and began talking to the driver, the affidavit said. Sanchez told the driver he couldn't be at the loading dock and that Sanchez had spoken to the hotel manager, the document said. Sanchez smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred, the driver told police.

Sanchez followed the driver from side to side of the truck, the court document said. When the driver darted toward the driver's door, video showed Sanchez "grabbing and throwing" the driver toward a hotel wall, it said. The fight continued against a dumpster and Sanchez threw the driver to the ground, it said.
Sanchez climbed into the truck but got out when told by the driver he wasn't allowed in, it said. Sanchez repeated that he spoke to a manager and didn't want the driver to replace fryer oil, the document said. Sanchez tried again to get into the truck and blocked the driver from calling his manager, it said.
Believing he was in danger, the driver grabbed pepper spray from his pocket and sprayed Sanchez's face, it said. Sanchez wiped his face and advanced toward the driver again, it said.

The driver then pulled his knife and stabbed Sanchez as the ex-quarterback came at him, it said. The driver fell onto pallets on the ground, he told police.
"While P.T. was on the ground, he could only see the feet of Mr. Sanchez coming at him, making P.T. realize that he was in a life-or-death situation," the affidavit said.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I feel like this, but it’ll get better

Photo of a dried leaf that’s almost completely eaten away, with just its vein structure left

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 3d

Like Hashem told Samuel, "Fill your horn with oil and GO [read my new linky-newsletter]!" buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

Hitting The Links: 10/5/25

We've got a whole lotta links, some thoughts on self-motivation and slowing down, a pink Birdy!, my current reading, & more

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d

anyway sunday morning is a great time to back a kickstarter book that some publishers I could mention didn't think was worth the bother

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 3d

In a pig’s eye!

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll add that to the episode outro!

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

(which is why I ask.)

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

Still doesn’t match the moment Bill Griffith spontaneously offered up, “I’ve had to deal with depression for many years,” and I had to sit there telling myself, “DO NOT INTERRUPT HIM OR SAY ANYTHING.”

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

Years of podcast experience

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

thin, white cursive on a black background; I too have old man eyes and struggled to get it correct.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

On the way home from an NYC podcast, thought I’d check on the grass

Photo of grass with a temporary grave marker sticking out, & an oak tree in the background.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday mornings are perfect for backing the hottest project on Kickstarter*

*if you ignore projects that are not compilations of Tom Tomorrow cartoons

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

The new compilation has five years worth of cartoons because over the past five years no publisher I approached was interested. Admittedly I mostly gave up, I had some other stuff I was dealing with. Still, I do love waking up in the morning and seeing all the support this thing is getting.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 4d

“[T]he note of sarcasm in her prophecy would have been even harder to bear had he not understood that some prophecies are made not so that something may come true, but as a kind of spell to prevent it from coming true.”
—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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