okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Oh look. It's someone remembering they think I'm the best after several weeks of having forgotten I existed. #cats

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

I grew up in the SF Bay Area. We went to a Gold Rush town and panned for gold in the 4th grade. The "saloon" served sarsaparilla & had a sign reading "Minors Welcome," which my classmate misunderstood as "Miners Welcome" and refused to go inside. We visited the Train Museum in Sac the year before.

Basically, all of US political life & discourse is premised on the illusion of symmetry between the parties, which requires vastly overstating the flaws of liberals & studiously ingoring the true nature of MAGA. Establishment journos & pundits will maintain that illusion at any cost.

A personal note: I was very touched to hear Best Editing winner Andy Jurgensen thank his aunt Barbara Hall. As an Academy archivist, she took an interest in my research and, miraculously, found me George Stevens's pocket diary. A miracle. Five Came Back would not have been what it was without her.

I think it might be a bad thing that a dipshit kid can help dismantle government systems leading to countless deaths and immeasurable suffering and then get a court order to make sure people don’t make fun of him

My night last night: two episode exports, one archival export, a scene export, and just barely started a trailer uprez, plus ingested music + downloaded logos and gfx. All after 6:30. Still got up this morning and got in an hour of writing, plus 6000 steps round-trip to Starbucks. #scriptsky

Had a visitor to my apartment today. It's 90 degrees. He probably was looking to cool down. I escorted him to a nice bush outside.

Always great new specs to check out on the Stunt List!

"Conversations with the Zodiac Killer are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive taxi cab company layoffs signal how private transportation must drastically transform in the Uber age. He also comments on cryptography, newspapers, law enforcement and all the woman who wronged him."

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. But that's life. I'm also descended from a man named Jeremiah Fallon who was a river boat captain in New Orleans, until he headed West with the Donner Party. Luckily, he left before dinner.

My decision to cancel HBO as long as this bozo was in charge is validated yet again.

Sheehy's Wikipedia page is quite the read, containing allegations of lying, plagiarism, and racism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_She...

For that matter, here are my mom and dad.

My grandfathers.

In favor of this on every level.

Movie hot take of the day: SCREAM 3 is good, actually. The Hollywood setting is fun, Neve Campbell has great chemistry with Patrick Dempsey and I kinda wish Sid had ended up with him in the series. Parker Posey is a blast. It's more of a Gail and Dewey movie than a Sidney one, but I'm ok with that.

Anybody ever read professional scripts and ache because despite all your best efforts you feel like you'll never be that good? Anyway, I'm reading THE MARTIAN again. #scriptsky

I'm actually glad there are no James Bond movies being produced now because we'd have Elon Musk paying the producers millions to put Bond in a Cybertruck and then 007 would die when he can't get out of his burning Tesla

It's been a long last two weeks at work, but I've kept a steady pace on my current rewrite and hit page 30 today. May have had to drag myself out of bed after my post workout 2hr nap and staggered down Ventura to Starbucks to do it, but I made it happen. #scriptsky

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Since it's SCREAM weekend (again) and the Ghostface Killer is on the loose (again), it brings to mind PARTY OF FIVE, which made Neve Campbell a star. It's a bit lost to time now, but that was good show, I was the right age for it, and the pilot script is really worth seeking out. It's very good.

It’s bad for motion pictures, and it’s bad for America.

The MBA is proving itself again and again to be the worst advanced degree.

Arrived today. Should be fun reading. ##scriptsky

Add this to the list of massacres that jerk is responsible for.

I had a work week that seemed to last a month, so I didn't get any writing done this week -- until I stumbled out of my place around noon and plopped myself down at Starbucks to rewrite three scenes from my current man v nature thriller. Feels good to keep going : ) ##scriptsky

Great, great, great! What a script. And what a performance by Ethan Hawke. #scriptsky

The dreams I have about this. All the wonderful things people would see and create! And the decency and dignity we'd gain as a society by allowing working class artists to survive and thrive.

Break the tie! Which of our hosts had it right about DS9's "Looking for par'Mach In All the Wrong Places"? 1️⃣ TREK (Cory's grade) 2️⃣ MARRY (Bryan's grade) 📊 Show results

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

My good friend Roxie, who's turning 18 next month. She loves her heating pad and yowling like mad. She lives with my good friends, but we were roommates many years ago, along with her brother Rex (RIP)

If you are interested in Klingons, Quark and Cyrano stories, or just need something to listen to while going on a run, please join Bryan and I on his great podcast @trekmarrykpod.bsky.social #podcast #trek #scriptsky

After that Jurassic Park ad, I think it's time we put de-aging technology out of its misery. Holy cow.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

The draconian cuts at the Washington Post could be called committing suicide by a once-great journalism institution that deserved trust and respect. But I think it should be seen as the owner of the Washington Post committing murder in service to Donald J. Trump.

Crying laughing better editing than most a24 horror movies

"How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?" - Sydney Ellen Wade, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT It's a fantasy movie in many ways, about competence, intelligence, and goodness, depicting a White House myth that I can't believe in anymore...

Spent my afternoon revising a script from last year. I'm doing a pass on just the descriptions, incorporating style ideas I've gleaned from reading THE MARTIAN and CONAN. This script is a very good idea, but is overwritten. Last time I worked on it, I was concussed by work. It hurts to look...

Great time at SEND HELP! A lady next to me struck up a convo after. She and her grandson had a great time. He had just read Lord of the Flies in his 8th grade class and appreciated the references. The 👀 gouge was "a little gory" for grandma, but she loved it. @shannonandswift.bsky.social

Heading out to see SEND HELP. It's a packed theater. And, personally, I'm in the mood to see management tortured, so should be fun!

In case this truly happens, I want to document that two days ago I was in a Starbucks and a guy struck up a conversation with me about the things he uses AI for and I said, "I'm very against it. I think it's all a big bubble and it's about to burst."

This stinks.

Welcome John Carpenter's THE THING to the National Film Registry! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/393134...

Love the new Aronofsky scene where the colonist takes off his hat to cheer, revealing that underneath it was a second and somehow larger hat Masterful artsistic choice

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there