matthew sekellick
@sekellick.bsky.social
writer and artist (theater+) from upstate new york living in Philly. hobbyist permaculture orchardist. i write about performance in Philly and the American theater: playsunpleasant.substack.com
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
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This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.
I am trying to expand my list of Movies With Plays In Them on @letterboxd.social. What is it missing? The play must be featured, somehow seen performed, not simply referenced or mentioned boxd.it/tpLw6
Movies with plays in them
Movies with plays in them. Real and fictional. Includes musicals, revues, school plays, but not operas. Details in notes. Loosely: where the play is featured more substantially, or is more integral to...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am trying to expand my list of Movies With Plays In Them on @letterboxd.social. What is it missing? The play must be featured, somehow seen performed, not simply referenced or mentioned boxd.it/tpLw6
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"High American construction costs are not downstream of high incomes, but rather of poor governance leading to low labor efficiency, poor procurement practices, nonstandard systems, and overbuilding." pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/30/i...
It’s not the Baumol Effect
The Baumol effect is an observation that wages in an economy rise based on its average productivity, and therefore the wages also rise in sectors with low or no productivity growth, increasing thei…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"High American construction costs are not downstream of high incomes, but rather of poor governance leading to low labor efficiency, poor procurement practices, nonstandard systems, and overbuilding." pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/30/i...
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I left substack 4 years ago and Twitter about a year ago for ethical reasons and I am doing just fine. The fact that neither product does what they are supposed to do didn’t hurt the decision.
FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.
not doing this to start beef but I mean come on - I spent much of my tough first years as a freelancer trying hard not to write for publications that felt too objectionable, I lost a noticeable amount of my income when I left Twitter - journalists do have rent to pay! everywhere sucks these days!
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I left substack 4 years ago and Twitter about a year ago for ethical reasons and I am doing just fine. The fact that neither product does what they are supposed to do didn’t hurt the decision.
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the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it
The more Lizza writes the more he indicts himself in serious ethical lapses but there are a lot of editors and publishers who are complicit here, too.
The whole thing is just gross.
(And shout out to the serious journalists who do good work. You deserve better peers and a healthier industry.)
The whole thing is just gross.
(And shout out to the serious journalists who do good work. You deserve better peers and a healthier industry.)
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
As a society, we should be more embarrassed by non-athletic outfits with sneakers
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As a society, we should be more embarrassed by non-athletic outfits with sneakers
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And the piece itself:
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
And the piece itself:
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
The Pope got to meet Dario Argento! I wonder which of the Three Mothers trilogy is Leo's fav, I'm gonna say Inferno, cos this Pope doesn't seem like a Suspiria kinda guy.
The Pope welcomed a number of Hollywood film stars to the Vatican, where he called cinema a "vehicle of hope".
More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
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More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
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my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
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I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
Plant trees pet cats
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Plant trees pet cats
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I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
If I taught a modern theater history course, I would assign my students to make wikipedia pages for theaters because it is real bleak on there. All sorts of notable cultural work that is totally non-existent there.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If I taught a modern theater history course, I would assign my students to make wikipedia pages for theaters because it is real bleak on there. All sorts of notable cultural work that is totally non-existent there.
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And yes it matters to still DO politics and this is part of that. I think it's strange when people say 'nothing matters' when in fact anything done in a sustained fashion matters to someone over time.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And yes it matters to still DO politics and this is part of that. I think it's strange when people say 'nothing matters' when in fact anything done in a sustained fashion matters to someone over time.
The actor who narrated the film Train Dreams, Will Patton, also narrated the audiobook. I just think that's neat.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The actor who narrated the film Train Dreams, Will Patton, also narrated the audiobook. I just think that's neat.
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David Lynch shorts program played this, from July 2020, which is about a minute and a half of a drawing of a cartoon guy bouncing around the screen with yellow squares and an industrial score. Someone walked out. How was your day honey? youtu.be/Ggz_oXPjfhg
HOW WAS YOUR DAY HONEY?
YouTube video by DAVID LYNCH THEATER
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November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
David Lynch shorts program played this, from July 2020, which is about a minute and a half of a drawing of a cartoon guy bouncing around the screen with yellow squares and an industrial score. Someone walked out. How was your day honey? youtu.be/Ggz_oXPjfhg