Here's a photo of me about to fall off a roof. ("Roof" is climbing jargon for an overhang that is horizontal.)

Our TV died. My 12 year old daughter and I took it apart, diagnoses it, put it back together and bought a replacement part, waited three days, took it apart again, installed the replacement part, put it back together and it still didn't work, so we poked around with 24v power supply...

Bedroom producing in progress

That's cool looking spectrogram, if I do say so myself.

Nine Inch Nails band photos, 2005, taken in a studio in front of a white cyc wall using a low-resolution digital projector for lighting; experimenting with new ways to incorporate the digital glitch art elements of my "With Teeth" album art into the promo photos. 🧵 1/

I had so much fun doing that AI slop video that I was looking through some other AI podcasts to see if I could do another one. And even when they talk about different things, they are all somehow the same.

I took some episodes of one of those AI slop podcasts, cut them up and turned them into a song. Then I made a video using creatice commons photos of dolls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4x... #podcasting #creativecommons

I know that everything is awful, but last week my washing machine died. I watched a youtube video, ordered the part and tools, they arrived the next day, and then I fixed my washing machine. Total cost: $40 Today, our TV died. Watched some videos, just ordered the part from ebay....

Firefox for the win

www.latimes.com/california/s... Not a huge baseball fan, but this is my mood.

and the best part about all of this? the yankees don’t get to experience this feeling

Toronto gets the film production jobs, we get the series. I'd reverse those, if I could. Shit, I went tribal pretty quick there

This is about non-fiction, but man if these lessons don't apply to fiction...How you frame the important moments is so important. Writing with imagery.

Back in 2006, Nancy Updike wrote one of the most helpful manifestos in our archive. Inside is a treasure trove of wonderful tips:

Don't listen to music that suits the mood you're in. Listen to music that suits the mood you want to be in.

Humor funny vs Comedy funny is a good way to think about it.

I'd be a shitty tv movie.

There's an important lesson here: While recorders have improved in leaps and bounds over the past decade, these producers (who's work I envy) are still using the same mics and headphones as before...and they aren't the ones who I see the most ads for.

There are plenty of people in the world who want to make you angry at capitalism or socialism, because then you aren't paying attention to the real problem with both of them -- which is corruption.

realistic Star Trek

You're my soda pop. My little soda pop. #yourewelcome

My wife got sick of having to repeat herself over and over again to our teenagers, so she made a sign that she can flash at them, Wile E. Coyote style.

First two rules for completing a long-term side project: Don't skimp on sleep, and don't neglect your marriage and/or friendships.

The future of podcasting is here, and it sucks: defector.com/the-future-o...

One of my favorite fictional contrivances is that a homicide detective could ever become famous.

I've decided that I want to only make projects that don't have a villain.

One thing Sneakers does remarkably well is have the character solve technical problems with everyday solutions that the audience can understand. "You will have to get past super high-tech motion and heat detectors by fiddling with the thermostat and walking...very...slowly..."

"Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed." Have they now? HAVE THEY NOW?! What a strange way to say "We let go our human staff and you're never getting through to anyone." Wonder how they all decided this was the phrase, simultaneously.

Okay, that's pretty good.

It is really amazing how much talent is required to make a piece of crap.

Overheard: "A real friend isn't someone you use once and throw away. A real friend is someone you can take advantage of again and again."

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? I can’t feed my family or pay the bills with ‘exposure’

Bigots like to pretend that every member of the group they hate is a bad person. Anti-bigots then say that every member of that group is a good person. In reality, almost every persecuted group has about the same ratio of jerks to saints as the general population. Because they're just people.

Here's my screed on "Theme," and why I think it holds back The Fugitive. I hate the way "theme" is taught in English classes, like it's an allegory, and every prop is a symbol to be decoded. There are some very good stories that do that, but there's another type of Theme that I like better.

Recently rewatched The Fugitive lately, and also just listened to @scoresettlers.bsky.social episode on it. It's an interesting movie to analyze. Because it's a really really good genre entry, with some great moments, without itself being "great." It is equal to the sum of its parts.

For reasons I don't understand, I'm procrastinating on going to sleep.

I know the world is still on fire, but I just bought a used, kinda junky electric bass for $100 and I'm happy about it.

So I destroyed my phone last week, and was using an old phone that barely ran the internet while I got it fixed, and so I spent a few days only using the internet on a computer, and I keeping it like that because life is better this way.

Protip: If something goes down in value by 50%, and then goes up in value by 50%, it's not back to its original value.

Waiting for the TV to finish booting up because technology is stupid

I miss the woods of Appalachia. They aren't better than West Coast forests, mostly just different, but I miss the creeks and rivers and diving for shelter because a summer thunderstorm rolled in.

Writing a column now (weirdly about generational cycles in Horror disaffection) - but re-found this 1993 Anti-Gen-X Newsweek column I remembered and hooooooo boy does it hilariously draw a lot of straight lines of Boomer ignorance from then to now... www.newsweek.com/whiny-genera...

My favorite Kilmer movie is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

The Disney/Fox merger shouldn't have been allowed

I don't mind when people promote their show on their personal account, unless it's the only thing you do, in which case I unfollow and wish you well.

Need to print this out and frame it near my desk

Your SPACE matters more than your MIC!!! A clip from The Audio Drama Guild's Presentation "Achieving Professional Sound" with incredible Guest Speaker Edward Calvey 👉 Access the full class here: https://www.theaudiodramaguild.com #AudioDramaGuild #VoiceActingTips #DIYStudio #VOPro #PackhowlMedia

In Arcane, they have flying boats and skateboards, but hardly any cars. Not an obvious choice, but a good one.