Oh well. Tuesdays gotta happen, I guess. Yippeeeee.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

Every time I think I've determined that this current administration is the absolute dumbest box of rocks I've ever seen, they double down and show themselves to be even dumber than I thought. There is no bottom to this. They must have teams of experts developing entire new levels of stupid.

Modern medicine is amazing. I wish America had more of it.

Youtube ad-- "... and you just want to upgrade your meat stick today..."

Yeah, this sounds like some madness.

Most people who know me understand this much about me: if you EVER ask/expect me to act mature and serious about "me," I'll make you regret that.

Yeah, there's a lot one could complain about in this modern existence. BUT... we also are lucky enough to have lived during the time of some great talented gracious lovely folks. This guy is one of them.

If you see this, post a knight.

I hope it hurts really bad.

I love wolves. We had a litter of (accidental) collie-wolf pups that were among my favorite animals ever. Rambunctious playful goofs.

AMURIKA!

Hands on learning…

This is me having an unexpressed thought. Several, in fact.

Somehow this Monday still managed to underwhelm me massively already.

I’ll say this for Pete Hegseth: he might be as nauseating to look at and listen to as his orange pedo boss.

Maybe if I don’t talk about Monday it will just go away….

FINISHED the ridiculous drywall job in the washroom, got The Wife to (finally) sign off on a clear specific plan moving forward ("it's tougher to hit the target when you keep waving two different targets..."), got half the LVP flooring down... Tired. No writing done. Booked a river trip. Onward.

Happy news: I booked the first of hopefully multiple river trips for the summer. This one is the gaggle of childish coworkers. First weekend in May. Woohoo. Sucky news: I still have to go to work between now and then, starting a foul 6 day run tomorrow dark and early.

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

I have a friend that needs money to buy a new pacemaker, so I'm selling some prints! These 3 are the only ones available (16" x 20"). I only have one of each, but each can be purchased and shipped for $50. DM to claim, first come, first serve!

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

"Did a current IWC member endorse your application?"

"Amusing Tales Of Woe And Degradation"

I know it's been talked about before (here and elsewhere), but EXCALIBUR remains amazing too watch not just as "a movie" but as an outstanding example of how to maximize your small budget for onscreen impact. When you first watch it (usually as a kid in the 80s) you are blown away by swords...

Yeah, not gonna waste my time, sanity, or civility with looking at even a single second of the Sunday morning political show BS.

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999 youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

OK, now THERE'S a logline I can embrace: "After a fellow secret agent and close friend is killed, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath is ordered to take his place at the head of a Cairo poultry firm."

I wish my writer brain was working, as that might be a fun distraction to all the (justifiable, understandable, entirely appropriate) angst and sorrow and rage and dumbth on social media tonight. But it ain't. So I guess I'll watch a movie.

@bradmjohnson.com has done heroic work on behalf of "vintage" writers (ahem) and deserves huge thanks and respect for that effort. But. Anytime I see MY mug on a promotional thing... I still laugh.

I wish there was a way to do a semi-private watch-along thingy.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

It's almost like he's campaigning to prove that he remains a nearly useless member of Congress. He sits on committees for Intelligence, Budget, Foreign Relations... yet claims he has no idea what's going on with the president with whom he always shouts about working closely. Huh.

OMG. Had remembered this vaguely maybe three times since the early 80s, and then boom I stumble across it. youtu.be/pcPkH9wUXAM?...

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Under curent circumstances, an average Ukrainian night of 100 Shaheds would mean the death of Dubai's economic and societal model. And Emirati THAADS and Patriots will serve little purpose against low-flyers. "Epic Fury" isn't going to be as easy as it's supposed to be

Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Happy 62nd birthday to the ageless Mark Dacascos!! Here’s a reminder that he stole every scene in John Wick Chapter 3 and gave us one of the best fight scenes the franchise has produced. An absolute legend!

Santa Elena Canyon is among my favorite spots on this planet-- so much so that I wrote a silly holiday comedy *just* to include it in a movie. These MAGA idiots want to build an ugly ass hate wall right through it. To hell with these bastard bigots.

I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. 🧵4/4

keystone cops-ass technology

Encountered him many years ago at a festival when he was still considered a "hot" writer. I listened to him hold court for about 20 seconds... and decided that was all I needed, then or ever. Very weird off-putting vibe which a few years later exploded into full-on evil nastiness. Bye.

I dunno, Maybe listen to actual experts.

If HBO was already pressuring the Pitt TV show to make an ICE interfering in the emergency room story line more balanced, just imagine what's going to happen when the Ellison's take full control. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo...

Boom goes the dynamite. This was the leverage Trump had over Sarandos and what Netflix got out of them backing off. Pure kleptocracy.

Keith is someone worth following and listening to, #Scriptsky. (Don't tell him I said that.)

Sent a rather forceful letter to Scouting w/ my feelings regarding SecDef Hegseth's recent demands that the org comply with his preferred ignorant bigotry. It felt good, but I doubt it will do a damned thing. "You fight for the lost causes harder than for any others. Yes, you even die for them."

For something different this #FirstPageFriday, some of my fave comps: QUEEN OF THE SKY: “Masters of the Air meets G.I. Jane” PERDIDO: “The Good The Bad and the Ugly 30 years after” THREE WISE MEN: “Little Drummer Boy meets The Hangover” VAMPICONDA: “Tremors meets Southern Comfort” #Scriptsky