Melancholyball
DOMINIC MAH@dommah thinking out loud about moodswings, popculture culture, pop music, karaoke, casinos, superheroes, asian americanishness
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I Wrote a Crime Thriller That's Weirdly About This Year's NFL Draft
I don’t mean that this year’s NFL Draft, which starts today, will involve any murder mysteries or gunplay or crime thriller tropes of any kind, goodness knows I don’t mean that. I mean that the NFL Draft is a key pillar of the plot, and in...
Sharing Renee Good's Poem About Dissecting Pigs
She wrote a poem, “On Learning To Dissect Fetal Pigs.” Delightfully, it can be found on a website celebrating the iconography of pigs. It’s a lovely poem, I dunno if I get it get it. The language is pretty, suggestive, considered.
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On Casinos & Sports Gambling, via My Unpublished, Totally Publishable Crime Novel
A manuscript for a trashy crime thriller novel sits on my laptop. The main character is Penny, an Asian American woman conceived as a fictional mashup of Mina Kimes and Clarice Starling. I felt moved to share a few excerpts from my unpublis...
We Made a Comic Book Concept Album, Here's the Liner Notes in Pretentious Detail
I spent much of this year making an indie album with my musically-talented pals under the collective name 12 Valentines. The songs could be described as retropop in the 80s-90s vein, with synthwave, shoegaze, emo flavors, a flirtation with...
1st Novel, 2nd Draft: JQK, an Asian American casino crime thriller
I started writing a novel around this time last year, that is, toward the end of National Novel Writing Month. The mood of the month was grey and S.A.L.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Lonely Anhedonic Downbeat). For a long time I’ve tried to parla...
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