when I saw robert pattinson is in dune 3 I was like yeah makes sense he's one of the 4 guys who is in every movie now

Everybody was right. This is amazing.

mad at my step counter for not adding new steps to my count while I'm sitting down

It's incredible when you realize you don't need to explain your life to everyone

fun fact, the sunday scarries actually can't survive inside a movie theater

Excited to watch the criterion channel on my phone tomorrow during my lunch break

Did an outline for an article I’ve been thinking about. It’s sort of a productivity strategy type thing. But instead of doing more work, it’s a guide for how to watch more movies

I feel bizarrely comforted by the perpetuity of the Allstate disaster guy appearing in Allstate commercials. I hope he outlives me.

Just shared this bud smith interview from a few years ago with a friend because it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever read about making art thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

The time has come for me to start reading Intermezzo

Coincidentally dressed like bob ferguson for rd 3 of my favorite film of last year— first time at Alamo Draft House!

Shakespeare museum today

we went to go see my boy Lincoln but I got hungry so didn’t get face to face time. will link up with him soon to connect and build

So glad I’m not catholic anymore they woulda made me give up YouTube shorts for lent

you know how some people get really into wine? that's how i am with avocados.

Dreamt last night that I was in the movie The Shining, and was terrified running around the hotel. But then I remembered The Shining was a novel written by Stephen king and a film directed by Stanley Kubrick, so I just left and was fine

Hate having to get up earlier for work. I’m texting my boys about basketball at 6am. What kind of life is this

This new @joshuahebburn.bsky.social story rules

Bugonia is one of the bleakest films I’ve ever seen, and one of the best acted.

Stripes and lights #oilpainting #art

quietly

Moose/Elk in the Snow, John Bauer, 1912.

This year I’m going to try to read and write stories, make more room in my life for art, eat pho, see the ocean again, go for long walks, take some trips with my friends and explore the east coast.

Staying up until midnight only so I can start the new year by reading 1001 nights volume 1

The last sunset of 2025

Here is a new short story called, Natural Selectors. In it, a man looks back at his parent's generation and recounts the atrocities of the gang they had in their youth. nicetrybudsmith.substack.com/p/natural-se...

I remain convinced most of my problems can be fixed by the right notebook

Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat

Reading mythology, short stories & Shakespeare and listening to the Beatles. Getting back to all the good things that brought me joy as a younger person, and it feels great.

I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.

Did pretty good with these

Feeling obsessed with stories lately. Storytelling history, how to tell a good story, what makes a good story, all of that good stuff

Going to try to learn to cook for myself in 2026. I’ve always made food for my partner and I, but I want to learn to really cook something.

Reading Hellboy comics for Christmas Eve

I’m collecting your weird replies for my scrapbook

Bout that time

I told everyone Anthony Joshua would knock out Jake Paul and everyone who doubted me is texting me this morning to say I am right

It’s great to have friends who know a lot about art and music and can give you recommendations. It’s even better to actually listen to those recommendations. Act like you’re taking a great college course and do the homework. It’s so rewarding.

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

Listening to a program about regional yodeling variations in which the expert being interviewed is demonstrating different types of Swiss yodeling

god emperor of dune

Life was better when I was waking up early every day to read Schattenfroh

Nowhere is more wonderful than the Cheesecake Factory. It is a marvelous maze of beautiful bulbs of light and sugar

They’re talking about quarter zips on npr.

Warriors down bad. Lions down bad. My year as a Midwest sports fan living on the west coast is not going as I had hoped! Sad!

Going to buy a copy of a Willa Cather novel so I can mail it to a stranger as part of a holiday book exchange I signed up for

Humans should hibernate. Sign my petition to make humans hibernate 11 months of the year. Possibly 12.

Fun fact your local library might have criterion collection DVDs and blu rays you can rent which include wonderful special features and you can immerse yourself in the joy of film for zero dollars and zero cents