James Cameron interview season, the most wonderful time of the year.

Going to a Christmas party tonight that will for sure end up on TMZ tomorrow morning. Hollywood!

I’ll be visiting New York City in early 2026 and I fully intend to finally live out my dream of getting caught up in an AFTER HOURS-style scenario.

We had a very decadent crew party last night at a Hollywood night club/concert venue (live band! endless amounts of free food! open bar! after party!) and considering the state of the industry, it felt like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. But oh, what fiddling!

Always a minor miracle whenever I’m able to tie a tie after months of not doing it.

Why? Did she do something wrong?

Every time I use AMC A-List is an act of protest.

I don’t think movie theaters will ever go away but the odds of them becoming a coastal/big city only thing are increasingly likely.

Re-posing a scene for retakes and trying not to massacre the beautiful artwork of the original artist.

In just a few shorts weeks we’ll once again be able to soar the skies of Pandora with the Mighty Ikran and dive below the oceans to swim with the majestic Tulkun.

Doing a ZOOTOPIA 2/IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT double feature to capture the full breadth of 21st century cinema.

Always enjoy talking to friends in different crafts and realizing every career path in Hollywood is an insane, maddening labyrinth. Ah, showbiz!

I love the convenience of working digitally and would never go back to a paper-based production pipeline, but tragically this convenience means everything looks just a little worse. Too polished, too stiff, too many opportunities to iterate obsessively. Bring back drawing off-model, please.

Off to see WICKED: FOR GOOD with my mom. I’m assuming the Wheelers, Jack Pumpkinhead and the Nome King finally appear in this one?

Seeing PREDATOR: BADLANDS with my parents. Happy Thanksgiving!

“Feel Good Inc” by the Gorillaz blaring from the speakers at this the final UCLA game at the Rose Bowl

I’m helping out with Retakes at work and it’s crazy how minute the changes can be and how such small changes can make such a huge difference. If anything can save us from AI, it’s artists’ absurd attention to detail.

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

THE OLIVIA NUZZI STORY a film by Ari Aster

Real ones know the best gossip rag in Hollywood was the comment section of the Animation Guild’s blog back in the late 00s/early 10s. RIP!

Finally started watching THE STUDIO, a show made for weirdos like me who have been reading Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline since they were in high school. Obviously I love it.

I’m traveling on the Coast Starlight from LA to Seattle and back and it’s kind of crazy to have travel days that aren’t stressful at all. All I do is board the train, sit, look out the window, eat and read. Tremendously inefficient but incredibly relaxing.

“Until they build a bigger Bob-omb.”

My favorite thing about the last long-distance train I took was discovering every retiree who takes the train for fun is a massive AMERICAN DAD fan.

Well I’m glad I booked those train tickets just in case

It is genuinely baffling that voters forget they hate Donald Trump until he’s president.

I’m in line for the Over the Garden Wall concert. A guy in a Dodgers hat slowly drives his car down the alley way, blasting music. His window is rolled down and he’s drinking a Modelo. He sees me holding a Liquid Death, holds out his beer, and says “Cheers.” We clink drinks and I say “Go Dodgers.”

Caught a matinee of the Blasting Company’s OVER THE GARDEN WALL concert. Crazy to think the show came out eleven years ago and how long ago that feels now. A relic from a much different age.

Watching a YouTube video and the name “Melanie” is pronounced “Muh-LINE-knee.”

Dodgers win! It’s probably cheating to root for one of the best teams in baseball but whatever, I lived in Seattle for thirty years, this is a nice change of pace.

Writing sign jokes into backgrounds on my show is the closest I’ll ever get to being a SIMPSONS writer.

Happy Halloween!

Rewatching RETURN TO OZ with coworkers during our lunch break and sorry, visual effects peaked with Claymation. It’s been downhill ever since.

Grinding progressively fewer and fewer coffee beans, desperately trying to find the right amount of caffeine to not drive me crazy all day.

SHELBY OAKS: We shouldn’t let YouTubers make movies.

Lightbox is fun this year. Heartwarming and slightly concerning that the youngins still have faith in animation.

Pounding on Kino Lorber’s door, begging them to let me do an audio commentary for a barely remembered 90s studio comedy.

Classic Seattle, the minute something goes wrong, you give up immediately.

On my way to see the new Ethan Hawke movie people can’t stop raving about. That’s right, BLUE MOON.

Great double feature idea: Ken Russell’s GOTHIC/Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN

A Dodgers-Mariners World Series is the dream for those of us that never left the West Coast. It would also only be watched by those of us on the West Coast.

Still buzzing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Underrated virtue: it feels like a movie that used to be much more common, like a MIDNIGHT RUN or NASHVILLE. Meaningful and smart but also funny, exciting and moving, the whole emotional experience. It’s something for the snobs like me and our parents.

Housing might actually get built in California in my lifetime. Now if we can just get that light rail train down the 405 built: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Finally, a real MOVIE!

It is time

Just had my second animatic screening as an assistant director. Going to celebrate by finally seeing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in Vista Vision at, where else, the Vista Theater. I think Paul Thomas Anderson would appreciate this.

Frantically re-editing Teams text to make it coherent before someone reads it.

Eight years ago I moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in animation. This has been a rockier year but I was heartened to remember how much fun I had, from weddings to concerts to wild nights in Vegas with the best crew in the biz. And I got promoted to assistant director! What a ride.

Finally visited Cole’s French Dip in DTLA and lived my dream of being a 1940s alcoholic screenwriter.