Scratch Magazine
Ideas don't always become novels. Sometimes they become essays, reviews, observations, conversations, or simply stories worth sharing.
Scratch Magazine is the editorial home of Scratch Writing—a collection of articles exploring storytelling, hidden history, emerging technology, films, humor, and the creative process. Whether you're interested in the lore behind The Midas Files, the future of artificial intelligence, a great movie recommendation, or a laugh at the day's absurdities, there's always something new to discover.
Explore the channels, follow your curiosity, and enjoy the journey.
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- Category: The Scratching Post
Last night was supposed to be the night. I was finally going to sit down in front of a camera and perform my first live reading from The Midas Protocol. Nothing elaborate. Nothing professionally produced. Just me, Chapter One, and whoever happened to wander into the livestream.
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Read more: The Scratching Post: My First Livestream Got Put on a Cooling-Off Period
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- Category: Cool Filmz
Leonardo DiCaprio gives everything he has, but Martin Scorsese’s Wall Street epic feels less like a revelation than a familiar gangster movie wearing expensive loafers.
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Read more: Cool Filmz: Wolf of Wall Street — A Great Movie or Scorsese Playing an Old Hand?
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- Category: TechGnosis
AI is often described as if it lives somewhere abstract. It lives in the cloud. It lives in the model. It lives in the algorithm. It lives in the strange little box where we type a question and wait for the machine to answer back.
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Read more: Tech Gnosis: The Ghost in the Machine Needs a Substation
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- Category: Bingham's Notebook
Some places in The Midas Files are important because they contain ancient secrets. Others matter because someone finally walks out the door.
Burger Empire belongs to the second category.
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Before Lawrence Bingham built the Gold Box, another Bingham had already stood beside a tesseract.
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Subcategories
The Scratching Post
The Scratching Post is Matt De Reno’s personal corner of Scratch Magazine, featuring author updates, creative reflections, Pittsburgh-rooted storytelling, house-project avoidance, writing life, book news, and friendly notes from the world behind The Midas Files.
Bingham's Notebook
Bingham’s Notebook explores the lore, characters, artifacts, hidden history, timelines, and behind-the-scenes mythology of The Midas Files, Matt De Reno’s Pittsburgh-rooted sci-fi thriller series about ancient power, impossible technology, and dangerous secrets.
Cool Filmz
Cool Filmz is Scratch Magazine’s movie and TV room, featuring essays, reviews, lookbacks, and story-minded reflections on sci-fi, thrillers, action classics, pop culture, character arcs, genre storytelling, and the films that shaped Matt De Reno’s imagination.
The Funny Newz
The Funny Newz is Scratch Magazine’s humor section, featuring fake headlines, sci-fi satire, UFO nonsense, cryptid chaos, ancient-alien absurdity, local parody, bad technology, and ridiculous reports from a universe that probably should not be trusted with advanced tools.
TechGnosis
TechGnosis explores strange science, future technology, space, AI, cybersecurity, fragile systems, hidden knowledge, and real-world ideas that sound like they escaped from a sci-fi thriller — all through the curious lens of Scratch Magazine.
