So... is there a Mrs. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

One of my most hated positions is "students on strike just want to get out of class". Because of course young people can't actually hold any unselfish beliefs, right?

There's a sign for a restaurant near me missing the RE so it just says TAURANT which sounds like a way you'd hail a passing knight. "Taurant and well met!"

"Under the new legislation, public use of the controversial phrases 'globalise the intifada' and 'from the river to the sea' to cause menace, harassment or offence will be banned, with a maximum penalty of two years in prison."

I’m convinced all we’re ever asking for out of big epic worldbuilding is a story with focus on personal, emotional stakes. Lore should be like medical terminology in The Pitt, it’s really just rigorous and consistent atmosphere. And saving the world plots need to go out of fashion.

A good question for many politicians might be "if you're not a racist, why do racists like you so much?"

"Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Police Department sent employees to Israel to train [...] But officers who attended these training sessions and dozens of other overseas seminars and conferences routinely failed to document what they learned or keep track of who they met with."

"We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this."

We are watching a William Friedkin movie every weekend in our Saturday night Friedk-Ins! Tonight is TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.

Okay, fine – the Ian McKellen monologue on Colbert was very moving. Are you happy now?

It's lucky that all I have is this hammer because man can I see a whole lot of nails!

Curious if WUTHERING HEIGHTS will cement Emerald Fennell as the new Baz Luhrmann.

I'm no shrinking violet, but I cringe a little when politicians break out Tough Swears to show they're Big Mad.

Finished WONDER MAN last night. Barring its lazy use of AI art for some retro designs (boo!) I recommend it highly.

We're doing "anti-AI is gatekeeping art" discourse again? Think about it this way: the prompts you're writing are a kind of art, because you are writing them. The output they generate is just a party trick.

Australia is inviting war criminals to visit, demanding reporters not write about their speeches to Parliament, and banning people from protesting about it. All in the name of "unity". It's grim.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, but the real "family" are the guys in the Phillipines driving the cars.

So the loving husband in THE PITT was Oliver in the first season of THE OC and the WONDER MAN finale played 'California'?

I just met you And this is crazy But would you consider inviting one Palestinian advocate to a writer's festival without the Australian freaking government getting involved?

Sitting in a history class, screaming "spoilers!"

SCORPION: take me across the river FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me S: if I sting you, we'll both drown F: ok, that makes sense *halfway across the river* F: so? S: so what? F: sting me S: what? F: sting me, like you promised S: no F: sting me so we'll both drown S: *crying* what is happening?

I love the idea that someone can be "emotional". Which emotions? ALL OF THEM.

Footballs are alive in the Peanuts universe, and Lucy just wanted to spare them the pain of being kicked.

The word "monocle" is formed from mono, meaning one, and cle, an abbreviation of cool.

All this does is gives vulnerable people another reason not to take their (often life-saving) meds.

This article goes back and forth between "chain saw" (correct) and "chainsaw" (incorrect) so often you'll wish Leatherface would hit you over the head with a mallet.

Of course animals have imaginations! How humans are consistently surprised by animal sentience, over and over, is my Joker origin story.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

I'm so pretentious I talk about myself in the 4th person.

When I was young, I used to tell time in Muppet Shows. "Oh that's three Muppet Shows away," I'd apparently say. So I am... invested... in the reboot.

Gotta hand it to RL Stine – 'Nightmare on Nightmare Street' is a great title. How many nightmares? More than you'd think!

You have to admire the Australian Government's ability to learn absolutely nothing. Takes skill, effort.

"If the radical left have their way, we’ll have kindness like this taking over the country."

"Kermit the Frog doesn't sound quite right anymore" is what I'll be mumbling into a whiskey at the end of the world.

When you see a hot guy but he doesn't know anything about roman numerals: "I could ix him."

Giving script notes is a delicate art. You don't know what a writer is absolutely in love with in their project, or what they're already doubting. You just kind of wade in with a bunch of questions and thoughts and what-ifs and hope they're all taken in good faith.

Actually, I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf. No one's ever asked me that before! Feels good to finally admit it.

The '80s action guy who says "we've got company!" is waiting for a Sondheim revival.

Kate Bush, drinking a cup of tea. Something stirs its surface. No, she thinks. Not again. A wuthering.

I just realised that my introduction to being vegetarian was this guy.

I'm really curious / doubtful that THE X-FILES can work in the modern era of overt conspiracy. Though I think the comic book THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH has a really smart spin on this! Maybe it's THE X-FILES true heir.

Somewhere there is a QAnon true believer who's violently shaking a monkey's paw shouting "no, not like that!"

Just for fun, a story I wrote almost 20 years ago about watching the end of the world through American and Japanese comic books.

Been thinking about the quote "you can't look cool and learn something at the same time". I think it was Ta-Nehisi Coates? Anyway, here's to learning while looking stupid.

Surely this etc. "Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars."

Sounds like a brag, but I had a good day today in my mental health job. Felt like I actually helped people. It's a real privilege.

I chose to believe that mice sleep in matchbox beds in their neatly cut mouse holes. You should too.

I'm not quite finished WONDER MAN but, unless it fails spectacularly to stick the landing, it's the first screened Marvel thing I can wholeheartedly recommend in a long while.

Have journalists at the White House ever stood up for one another? Or is that just, like, considered gauche?