What's New, October 2025

Hello again! Been a while! I didn't send a newsletter in September. I looked back through the archives and the last month I missed was October 2023, almost exactly 2 years ago. The end of the old streak is the beginning of the new one!

Anyway, at the beginning of September I competed in Vox Pop, a regional poetry slam tournament. I placed third in the indie competition 🙃 Here's the Slam Euphoria team selfie.

Also this month, our short film landed another placement. New Treasure will screen November 1 as part of the Hemut Film Festival in Southern California. Our west coast premiere!

I also! Released three more songs this month. I didn't bother sending them to streaming services for reasons, but I posted them for free on Instagram. So like! Listen to them.

I also spent some time this month working on the technical infrastructure aboard the Mothership. I think it will allow me to do some more diabolical internet stuff in the coming year.

The fall is always a time of reflection and planning, so I've been doing that. I finished another section and a half of The Technological Society x Jacques Ellul. I also read ~100 pages of submissions to a competition run by the Hudson Valley Writer's Guild. I'm a judge! I'm counting that as a book because I'm a little behind and because it took the time I would have otherwise spent reading this month (8/12 books). I listened to Crash Landing x Jimi Hendrix, one of my many new physical media thrift finds, as well as Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers x Kendrick Lamar, which completes my album goal (12/12 albums). I therefore will not listen to any more music until 2026. On the other hand, I made no more progress on my movie goal (7/12 films). Five films, four books, three months.

Here are some tweets:

A lot of tweets, as it turns out! But after all, it has been two months.

✌🏼

– gripp