The New GregSisco.com
A central hub for my comedy, fiction, and film work.
Three years ago, on the eve of 2022, I tried to walk away from social media. I shut down my accounts and kept them down for about four months before I caved in and came back. In that time, I made this website my only connection to the digital world, putting up the odd blog post and sending out a monthly newsletter to subscribers, including a quarterly short story. If you received an email notification about this post, it’s probably because you were one of those subscribers.
I don’t have plans to delete my Facebook or Instagram this year — not yet, anyway — but I still don’t like the amount of my time they occupy. I also don’t like that the algorithm controls which of our followers see our posts on those sites, and certain posts end up “throttled” and hardly seen by anyone.
I’ve tried a few times to make GregSisco.com into the central hub for my work, but I never much liked the previous interfaces and it was tough to drive traffic there. My hope is that this iteration, hosted through the Substack platform, can work in a way that my previous attempts haven’t. I have a lot of projects for the coming year and I’m hoping they can all live here. Much of it will also end up on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, but it’s easy for posts there to get lost in the noise. People who subscribe here will get emails straight to their inboxes every time I post an update.
What’s Coming in 2025?
Standup videos - I haven’t posted a lot of my material online, because I have a feeling (maybe a silly one but it’s still there) that the material is “used up” once video of it is been posted. I might tell a story 100 times on stage for 100 different crowds, but once it is recorded and published for the whole world to see, it feels like I have declared that story completed. I’m trying to get past that. I also have a lot of material now that I find myself wanting to move on from, so I think 2025 is the year that I start putting a lot more of my material online, and perhaps even a release a full special (but that’s a topic for another post).
Short films - I wrote and directed a five-minute horror film a couple months ago that will soon be making its way to festivals (and eventually to this website). I hadn’t directed in ten years, but I find myself wanting to do more. Sketches, shorts, and maybe even a new feature. Expect some comedy. Expect some horror. Time to have some fun.
New fiction - Over the last few years, I’ve had a lot of short stories published in anthologies and magazines, and I’ve also written a lot of them that have never found a home. I have been organizing a lot of them to see how they would fit together into a collection, and I believe the answer is… quite nicely. More info soon. And that’s just one project. I’ve got even bigger stuff in mind that it’s a little to early to talk about.
Autobiographical posts - Some of what I use the internet for is just a place for my rants and diatribes, as anyone who has followed me on Facebook knows. This platform may be a much better fit for ongoing projects like the popular Memoirs of an Uber Driver posts I have done on social media, where they can exist in a better organized form.
Let’s Figure This Out Together
It might take a couple months to learn exactly how I want to run this site, how frequently I will post, what types of posts generate the most interest, and so forth. Substack also allows for paid subscriptions that receive premium content, though I’m not doing anything with that feature right now and I’m not certain whether I plan to. Many bridges will be crossed as we come to them.
For now, consider the site launched. I will try to make this the start of a more organized and methodical online presence going into 2025.