Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show
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
Starter Packs
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Virtual Memories Show Guest-List Starter Pack
Here’s a bunch of BSky people who’ve appeared on my weekly Virtual Memories Show podcast
@hommestead.bsky.social
Co-host of #TheInflectionCut: https://theinflectioncut.podbean.com New experiences > nostalgia. Media nerd. Product leader. Brooklyn raised, Portland Oregon cultured. My blurb, like my life, is a work in progress.
@sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
@bibliopaul.bsky.social
Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
@mariadahvana.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
@kurtankeny.bsky.social
Painter - Member of Kingston Gallery in Boston. Indie Cartoonist - author of In Pieces & Pleading with Stars, letterer on November by Fraction/Charretier. Distro @radiatorcomics.bsky.social www.kurtankeny.com www.kingstongallery.com/kurt-ankeny 📍Salem, MA
@mauricevellekoop.bsky.social
Queer Toronto illustrator and cartoonist, he/him author of the graphic memoir, “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together”
@annajbrown.bsky.social
London-based reporter for Endpoints News | abrown@endpointsnews.com | Signal annabrown.04
@withhiddennoise.net
I make books at Circumference Books, and I work at the Internet Archive.
@haydnstuff.bsky.social
@barbaranessim.bsky.social
Artist that never stops challenging boundaries, b.1939, New York Instagram @barbaranessim Email list sign up: https://mailchi.mp/21434c6bf6e3/sign-up-landing-page
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@brookegladstone.bsky.social
Co-host of On the Media. Author of The Influencing Machine and The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.
@cartooncrossroads.bsky.social
CXC is a FREE comics, art & animation festival in Columbus, Ohio! CXC 2025: September 18-21
@whitneywitt.bsky.social
Public health; Women’s Health; Founder of The Health Equity Consulting (HEC) Group; Dean; Health innovation: Global Health; Photographer; Hiker; member of American Public Health Association; World Health Organization https://www.healthequityconsult.com/
@aaronlange.bsky.social
Author of AIN'T IT FUN and PEPPERMINT WEREWOLF. Co-founder of Stone Church Press. https://stonechurchpress.com/
@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social
Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer. www.melbrooks.com
@andrewervin.bsky.social
Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator. No longer human.
@pkuper.bsky.social
Cartoonist: Mad, (Spy vs Spy) New Yorker,Charlie Hebdo,The Nation. Co-founder of World War 3 illustrated. Harvard prof.
@kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social
Author | Essayist | Translator | Reviewer «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (2024) Order Page: https://parlorpress.com/products/countee-cullens-harlem-renaissance
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Writer, host of podcasts: sci-fi deep dive "Space the Nation" & mental health convos at "Another Day." Leading The Third Story Workshop. More at anamariecox.com
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
@testonewrites.bsky.social
You know the drill. I read about dead people, teach about Judaism, and write about magic. Less argumentative in 2025 but no promises. Repped by @HandspunLit. Very gay, very Jew.
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@jjmizrachy.bsky.social
Documentary Film Producer | THE BOOKSELLERS, THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT, UNCROPPED, WOMEN LAUGHING and more. www.judithmizrachy.com @fineprintpictures.bsky.social
@wolfheadatnight.bsky.social
Autumn Ivy during the day becomes Wolfhead at night. So we out here let’s go! VTube streamer and endless chaos Furry.
@weratedogs.com
Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹 links.weratedogs.com
@drooker.bsky.social
Cover artist for the New Yorker, Graphic Novelist: NAKED CITY website: Drooker.com signed prints: Drooker.com/prints
@graham-chaffee.bsky.social
tattooist and owner of purple panther tattoo - los angeles, california i also make comics :) gschaffee@yahoo.com
@lewistrondheim.bsky.social
Auteur de bandes dessinée Comics author www.lesdessinateurs.com
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social
Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
@edithmayhall.bsky.social
Durham University Classics Prof./cultural historian keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
@edgarwright.bsky.social
Spaced / Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / Scott Pilgrim Vs The World / The World’s End / Baby Driver / The Sparks Brothers / Last Night In Soho
@chrissyteigen.bsky.social