The Man with the Big Hat (2026) - Teaser Trailer I'll start uploading more videos and photos on @bsky.app and other platforms as we approach premiere and festival circuit. youtu.be/XWIcbNRlGxM?...

Hey everybody, fun things are happening with this project. If you follow the link below to @vimeo.com, you can view our Teaser Trailer for The Man with the Big Hat: vimeo.com/805711553

Scored my @sxsw.com badge today. Good times.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Doing the legwork on The Man with the Big Hat. We don't know any film programmers, so are reaching out to directors & folks who've recently played at these more prominent festivals. Also, trying to find big names or producers with a good doc track record who want to attach themselves to a project.

Fall. You know what to do.

I watched The Natural with my kids last night. Magic.

As I loaded the dishwasher this morning, my 7 year old son asked, "Dad, does coffee really make everything possible?" Feeling he was now possibly the wisest of my 3 children, I turned to say yes, then realized he was reading the side of my Thorntons coffee cup from when I grabbed donuts earlier.

Them: Is there something in the guitar case? Me: Yeah. Them: What? Me: My guitar.

Happy 40th @farmaid.org! Here's one of my favorite performances from years' past. Steven Fromholz and Willie Nelson singing I'd Have To Be Crazy at Farm Aid 2 in 1986. youtu.be/iTmkXWHB5Mk?...

I'm a proud @trinitydc.bsky.social alum; completed a Master of Arts in International Security Studies there in 2015; Trinity is a former IC CAE program partner location. Here's to another 125 years - nothing will stop Trinity Washington University!

Shit's gettin' stupid, y'all.

This year’s annual Sid Easley lecture at Murray State University taking place Thursday evening will feature a historian who specializes in Russian & Soviet history & is working on a book about Vladimir Putin & Russian memory of the world wars, especially World War II. www.wkms.org/sounds-good-...

My 2011 screenplay for Past Hondo, the film version of which remained unfinished after the death of Steven Fromholz in January 2014, was originally written with Robert Redford in mind. When my attempts to reach Redford from Iraq went unanswered, Steven Fromholz came to my rescue & joined the cast.

1936-2025

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Gutfeld thinks he's America's Solovyov

I viewed The Man with the Big Hat last night after we exported everything. Very proud of all involved. Thanks to first-time director Austin Sayre for bringing me onboard, & to the family & friends of Steven Fromholz for joining us on this journey. Premieres 2026. www.themanwiththebighatfilm.com

Today is our 10th anniversary. Still serious as H-E-Double-Hockeysticks about each other. Thank you for our life and for our three children. And thanks for saving me: youtu.be/ukTUVthCSQg?...

How do you answer your phone?

24 years since the events that temporarily united us as a country. I will never forget.

As a @depauluniversity.bsky.social alum, this was a cool development to read about this morning. A new collaboration connects iconic Chicago institutions, DePaul & the Chicago Bears, to expand career development, community work: resources.depaul.edu/newsroom/new... @chicagobearsnews.bsky.social

My thoughts are with the families of those poor kids in Colorado

One of the causes near & dear to me over my near-decade here in Louisville has been the World Affairs Council of Kentucky & Southern Indiana. I was recently obliged to be a sponsor of WAC's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception at Galt House, via @idruthergoto.bsky.social www.worldkentucky.org

Good times. Today, we're exporting The Man with the Big Hat. 85 minutes. Our documentary film about Steven Fromholz will premiere in early 2026 - somewhere. See you on the festival circuit. www.themanwiththebighatfilm.com #filmsky #docsky #docusky #fromholz #fromholzsky #docs #documentary #film

THIS IS UH, LIKE ILLEGAL, UH, PER THE PRESIDENT’S LAWS, AGAINST TRANSGENDERISM, UH, LIKE, UH

Them: but what about Bill Cli All of us:

Slightly diminish a book Nearly The Last Of The Mohicans

Wait, Gil Mantera's Party Dream had a reunion show?!?!?! How did I not hear about this? Damn. youtu.be/bc-Yd1ZB8GE?...

I always assumed the Gorns were into Gil Mantera's Party Dream youtu.be/zOqxueY9-i8?...

Everybody follow @guyforsyth.bsky.social I was at this show in July 1998. Crazy to find it online after all these years. I somehow lucked into growing up near Bracken, Texas, across the tracks & creek from a spot that was, for a few years, called Cibolo Creek Country Club. youtu.be/dkN26rUp9w8?...

Hey @slessard.bsky.social - curious if you or anyone in @dmbofficial.bsky.social has ever heard or was influenced at all by Shawn Phillips? www.shawnphillips.com If so, would love to talk about it. Thanks.

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

Donald Petrie's 300

Here are a few songs I had a hand in creating, in case you get bored this weekend. May you continue to have the intestinal fortitude to resist all enemies, foreign & domestic. Long live Chicago. Long Live L.A. Long live N.Y.C. Long live D.C. Long live the U.S.A. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Parker Livingstone, I presume?

Congratulations to my sister-in-law, Kelli, on completing her Doctor of Education (EdD). Well done, Dr. Kelli Easley!

Thanks to Fairdale High School for their tribute to our Dairy Queen partner, Jim Carroll, on the football field for this week's first home game. Jim passed away recently, & the DQ logo in the team's colors symbolizes the bond our DQ has with Fairdale as a sponsor, & highlights Jim's philanthropy.

One of my favorite films as a kid was The Rescue, about a scrappy bunch of Navy brats who sneak into North Korea to rescue their captured Navy SEAL dads. Just saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Happy @bandcamp.com Friday! For your listening pleasure(?) - I was (am still?) a singer in a Washington, D.C. indie rock band called Exit Vehicles. We did an EP, a LP, & a single. Still talking about the next album. We'll see how it goes. We're spread from GA-VA-KY now. exitvehicles.bandcamp.com

Top 5: Shawn Phillips Steven Fromholz Guy Forsyth Dave Matthews Band The Frames Runners Up: Sigur Ros Bob Schneider Pearl Jam Bjork Explosions In The Sky Damien Rice This Will Destroy You Robert Earl Keen Balmorhea David Gray The Cranberries Led Zeppelin ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Steven Fromholz once described his music to me as freeform-country-folk-rock-science-fiction-gospel-bluegrass-opera-cowjazz. A hell of a genre. I love listening to his live stuff; hearing his command & mastery of the stage and audience. I hope to have ALL of his albums available online very soon.

Story: It's kind of like a spiritual sequel to Syriana, but instead of Bob getting taken out on a desert road somewhere, his own corrupt and idiotic regime back in DC obliterates him on a go-fast boat he's on with some random Venezuelans.

Even worse, if it's a trekkie-trolling "space force" announcement on their headquarters, I assume they won't completely rip off the brand, since they already soiled the logo design (don't even attempt to say they didn't) - trump wouldn't dare locate Starfleet, I mean, space force, in San Francisco.

If DoD becomes DoW, we'll really have to make sure troops are clear they're following DoW orders, & not Dow, Inc. But in trumpland, it's all the same now anyway. "Peace" president created space force & then brought back the DoW because we're not even pretending war isn't america's #1 business.

Final days of fine-tuning The Man with the Big Hat before festival submissions. Just took a look at the end credits & it feels incredible to see this thing, willed into existence, after so many years of being dismissed or ignored. Fuck yeah #filmsky #docsky #docusky www.themanwiththebighatfilm.com

Scott says "all options" - but means no sanctions at all as the only option on the table.