white people going crazy on this odyssey discourse.

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

I sweat to god if they fuck up the east of eden series....

There isn't ceiling in our garden

Maybe deciding that education should be inherently tied to the internet was a bad idea in the first place?

I have distinct memory of being a person--whatever that means--that I cannot shake

finished re-reading East of Eden last night, and I can say with certainty that no writer has better understood the souls of their creations than Steinbeck.

expectations

If I had a button that would destroy the internet, I would hit that button.

It's weird being in line to pick up your kid at daycare behind a truck with a "panty dropper" sticker on the back windshield.

Brenna Ehrlich, of Rolling Stone, on the "haunting" ending of our new film, THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR, and quote from me about why we chose *that* ending. Link to the article and the film in the comments!

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What does it mean to kill somebody? And what if you had to watch it over and over and over again? Our new short film, THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR, is now live on @rollingstone.com's website & YouTube page and on the Documetnary+ streaming service.

What does it mean to kill somebody? And what if you had to watch it over and over and over again? Our new short film, THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR, is now live on Rolling Stone's website & YouTube page and on the Documentary+ streaming service. youtu.be/9JN7bhzBnSk?...

Honey wake up, Bon Iver just released his first live album

I feel like I see people complaining all the time about AI usage in their classes and like.... I don't get the sense my students are using it for their writing all that much? I am still correcting the same things I was correcting 5 years ago? I can't think of anything I did that was special EXCEPT

A novel about a novelist whose name is "Paige Turner"

THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR drops Friday morning! arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

The official teaser for our short film, The Spiritual Advisor, is now posted on our Substack newsletter! Check it out in the comment below and sign up to follow more film news from our production company! The film releases FRIDAY morning on Rolling Stone's and Documentary+'s platforms!

*me watching Viking leader Olaf II kill people and destroy London Bridge in 1014* "Imma write banger nursery song about this"

*me watching Viking leader Olaf II kill people and destroy London Bridge in 1014* "Imma write banger nursery song about this"

I would like to write an article about the pure, indescribable joy I receive upon coming across a cat in a hardware store. "An Ode to the Hardware Store Cat"

My grandfather was a carpenter. I never really understood it nor was I ever interested in it. In January, my wife found this old pulpit on the side of the road and thought it would be a cool....something. She grabbed it and put it in the woodshed.

This year will come with news about two different film projects, and with that in mind, I am happy to share that A Pound of Snow is launching a newsletter: THE SNOWBALL. Please subscribe to follow for news, behind-the-scenes, trailers, screening dates, new projects, and more! (Link in comments).

im just a professor in office hours waiting for a student who emailed me yesterday to schedule an appointment to show up

spending all day color grading the newest feature, and I fucking love this part of filmmaking

Can't wait for Grok to do some war crimes!

I fear that I cannot write a letter of recommendation anymore without sounding like Trump--using way too many superlatives that really do not make sense in context of one another.

Mike Lee: ICE are just like cartel hitmen. Another example of fierce agreement bsky.app/profile/sahi...

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ AND NOW YOU HAVE TO READ IT TOO SO I CAN TALK ABOUT IT WITH SOMEONE PLEASE AND THANK YOU

I'm in the middle of SAY NOTHING, Patrick Radden Keefe's story of the IRA, and damn if it isn't nonfiction at its best.

Dante Spinotti sold his soul and seems to not gained a single thing out of it. "It's well executed." LOL. www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Bon Iver is releasing a live version of "Naeem (Can't You Hear Crying)", now only on Bandcamp. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Join in to support those organizing, protecting, and sheltering against ICE in the state. boniver.bandcamp.com/track/naeem-...

The world premiere of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR at DOC NYC was this weekend, and we had two sold out screenings! After the first, an elderly woman turned around and said, "I'm pretty conservative, but you changed my mind about the death penalty...but not for that Luigi Magione."

Our world premiere is today. We are sold out but there are still rush tickets available!

Some big professional news: Rolling Stone Films and Documentary+ have acquired a short film I produced, titled THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR. The film premieres at DOC NYC on Sunday!

Some big professional news: Rolling Stone Films and Documentary+ have acquired a short film I produced, titled THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR. The film premieres at DOC NYC on Sunday!

'The Spiritual Advisor,' a short documentary about death-penalty activist Rev. Jeff Hood, will premiere at DOC NYC.

We made it to DOC NYC!

We need to teach older people how to use headphones because I can't be on public transit listening to someone's grandfather watch Instagram reels at maximum volume.

The first reviews of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR are rolling in ahead of the film's premiere this week!

The first reviews of THE SPIRITUAL ADVISOR are rolling in ahead of the film's premiere this week!

The best part of stick season in the mountains is that you can finally see sunrises and sunsets

I don't know how studios continually fumble making a good Jurassic Park movie. Instead of following their big CGI action-oriented formulas, make people be stuck on an island with raptors hunting them. Make it Alien but with raptors. IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

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I don't know how studios continually fumble making a good Jurassic Park movie. Instead of following their big CGI action-oriented formulas, make people be stuck on an island with raptors hunting them. Make it Alien but with raptors. IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

A student has been missing from my college campus since Friday evening, and online discussions around this disappearance are wrapped in anti-trans discourse. I fucking hate people.