Dr. Mike Sell
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English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him
Feeling definitive about this one.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Feeling definitive about this one.
So, Altman’s ‘Popeye’ is a low-key remake of ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller,’ right?
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
So, Altman’s ‘Popeye’ is a low-key remake of ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller,’ right?
post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
post a famous bathroom scene
One of my favorite locations in the House of Mouse and one of my favorite NPCs (they're little stinkers . . .).
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One of my favorite locations in the House of Mouse and one of my favorite NPCs (they're little stinkers . . .).
Andy Warhol invented loot boxes🤔
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Andy Warhol invented loot boxes🤔
Julia Warhola’s cursive lettering.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Julia Warhola’s cursive lettering.
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Bacchae in the basement.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Bacchae in the basement.
Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ or ‘Everybody Wants Cinema!!’
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ or ‘Everybody Wants Cinema!!’
Let's just say it's good to have a job where you're leading a three-hour discussion on the films of Jordan Peele with a group of students who have been deep into Horror Cinema, Affect Theory, and Monster Studies for three months.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Let's just say it's good to have a job where you're leading a three-hour discussion on the films of Jordan Peele with a group of students who have been deep into Horror Cinema, Affect Theory, and Monster Studies for three months.
Reading Laura Marks' The Skin of the Film and finding her idea of "haptic visuality" deeply relevant to Horror Cinema. In contrast to memory, the textural techniques of horror (the scream, the squelch, the surface of the skin) evoke an embodied experience of the uncanny and the abject. Hello, essay!
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reading Laura Marks' The Skin of the Film and finding her idea of "haptic visuality" deeply relevant to Horror Cinema. In contrast to memory, the textural techniques of horror (the scream, the squelch, the surface of the skin) evoke an embodied experience of the uncanny and the abject. Hello, essay!
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
The festive season is here! What better time to take your adventurers into the scrumpdillyicious delights of the bestselling 'Curse of the Sugarplum Fairy'? A trifle of Wonka, Adventure Time, and Cronenberg, it comes with the Complete User's Guide to Sucromancy!
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November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The festive season is here! What better time to take your adventurers into the scrumpdillyicious delights of the bestselling 'Curse of the Sugarplum Fairy'? A trifle of Wonka, Adventure Time, and Cronenberg, it comes with the Complete User's Guide to Sucromancy!
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Share someone who looks stylish wearing a turtleneck.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Share someone who looks stylish wearing a turtleneck.
When you're teaching a grad seminar on horror cinema, spooky season doesn't just end. Now watching.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When you're teaching a grad seminar on horror cinema, spooky season doesn't just end. Now watching.
Current holdings.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Current holdings.
Just completed a rewatch of 'Mindhunter.' And I'm left with a lot of questions. Number 1: Has there ever been a character done more wrong by a writing room than Wendy (Anna Torv)? She bursts in as the smartest person in the room, a gay-feminist boss, and gets shunted into a kitchen-sink rom-drama?
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Just completed a rewatch of 'Mindhunter.' And I'm left with a lot of questions. Number 1: Has there ever been a character done more wrong by a writing room than Wendy (Anna Torv)? She bursts in as the smartest person in the room, a gay-feminist boss, and gets shunted into a kitchen-sink rom-drama?
What if political analysis but you’re cranking it?
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What if political analysis but you’re cranking it?
Wow. Kwaidan lives up to the hype. Literally gasping at the composition of shots, the art design, the movement of performers and camera. Just wow.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wow. Kwaidan lives up to the hype. Literally gasping at the composition of shots, the art design, the movement of performers and camera. Just wow.
Kind of wild how the political situation in the U.S. is shaping into a 1980s-style metanarrative of the cool/weird/queer/goth/poor kids vs. the rich bullies. In this narrative, I shall proudly claim the Harry Dean Stanton.
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Kind of wild how the political situation in the U.S. is shaping into a 1980s-style metanarrative of the cool/weird/queer/goth/poor kids vs. the rich bullies. In this narrative, I shall proudly claim the Harry Dean Stanton.
Ramen, or, the Pleasures of the Fridge Clean-Out.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ramen, or, the Pleasures of the Fridge Clean-Out.
These guys really can't handle working from home.
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
These guys really can't handle working from home.