You telling me that you wouldn't immediately take your homesick friend who had a super shitty day on set here? "Sorry that shoot went terribly and an A-list celebrity promised to read your script and then ghosted you; let's go get a crave case and talk about how much we miss snow."

Here's my pitch for an LA restaurant: One of those cramped indoor malls like in K-Town, but it's full of fast food you can only get in other parts of the country: White Castle, Whataburger, Culver's, Bojangles, Friendly's, Rita's, Cousin's, Zippy's, Lion's Choice, Maid-Rite It would make BILLION$$

I thought this was an ad for Triumph Motorcycles.

One of my most prized possessions is my hard drive full of terabyte's worth of stock and VFX footage. I've got footage of a snail on a greenscreen. Various kinds and directions of explosions. Skulls. Various sizes of sparks. Blood spatters. Jet flames! Helicopter rotors! It's wonderful!

lol the last time this happened with 60 Minutes, Hollywood made a movie out of it that got 7 academy award nominations. The Insider (1999) was required viewing in my high school civics class 5 years later. Also Hollywood loves sequels and reboots of 20-year-old movies right now. lol

Now you see me, don't you mon?

The Bari Weissand Effect

Media companies sure love to put goblins who hate the thing they create at the very tops of their companies. The kind of media is different every time, their reasoning is different every time, but in the end, they don't like the thing they create and at their core, seek to have it dismantled.

AI is often sold as 'do something you already know how to do more efficiently' but is often bought as 'do something you don't know how to do with no idea if you are doing it efficiently at all'

Watched Mask of Zorro last night and it's about a guy who is awesome and can do anything and trains another guy to be awesome and do anything and in the end they both continue to be that way and it rules. Also, Anthony Hopkins has been playing the old teacher guy who dies for almost my entire life.

My mom has a dozen chickens, which means there are a dozen eggs every day, which means she's always looking for stuff to do with eggs. My friends, today, she found a recipe from Portugal called Lampreia de Ovos. It uses **50** EGG YOLKS! AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS👇

Been working on a pilot where every single shot includes VFX and there's nothing quite like the unfortunate feeling of being like "Welp... I gotta cut this shot that I spent days working on because it doesn't flow as well with it in there." Like it's good! It's better! But also ugh.

Can you imagine how many people would be thankful, happy, and feel so much better about their lives, if we ACTUALLY had "transgender for everybody"?

"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"

Do any of y'all have early electronic music recommendations? I've been digging Kraftwerk, The Buggles and YMO and I would like to discover more stuff from around that period.

Anytime you're not making something that looks and sounds like this you're wasting everyone's time www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zavw...

My wife and I texting each other after getting a fraud alert on our credit card, both vehemently reassuring ourselves that it was definitely NOT Burger King that did this to us.

This is the Minnesota I care for

Oh ok, so the dimmer the image gets, the less sexual it gets. It's about keeping the lights off!

The concept of Hank Hill's naked ass being described as "explicit sexual images" says an entire library's worth of information about the person who flagged it.

Oh my god you guys grow up

Oh shit and this is the last update for intel macs! That's my home studio workhorse! I can't afford a new high end computer right now and I don't want this to be my last update. wtf god damn!

It sucks because honestly, at this point, we've reached peak phone. There is nothing to update. Maybe a new camera processor with slightly higher slow motion options? Like what else is there? All I'm ever looking for is security updates, I don't want whatever this shit is for my $1000 phone.

Hank Hill is the ideal male form.

Woke up and my iphone had updated to the new liquid glass stuff and I gotta say, looking at it normally is not a pleasant or comfortable user experience, but looking at it while groggy and sleepy and trying to figure out what the buttons even say is an especially daunting task. What a shit update!

They seem not to know about Patreon. Hundreds of people pay me half what Netflix costs just because they like hearing me talk about books. Around 50 people on this planet pay me AS MUCH as Netflix costs, just to help extra. They get nothing additional in return but our thanks. And I’m a nobody.

Every day feels like I'm in mourning for something new.

Bring back TV shows where they have an actor play a mob boss in one episode and then later have the same actor play like a teacher or something because they assume you don't remember seeing them on a random episode a few months ago.

Finally watched K-Pop Demon Hunters and now I know what that blue tiger thing everyone kept doing fan art of is from. Thank goodness!

I need 3 block options on here: 1) Block 2) Mute 3) Block but keep them in a list somewhere because their opinions are so insane that I'd still kinda like to check in on them sometimes to see what on earth is going on there

Watch the stuff you like on streaming so there is data to back up that they should make more. Then figure out a way to own it for yourself when they inevitably, at some point in time, decide that the data didn't matter and they still take it down anyway.

One of the funniest things to me about people who are paid to be funny as their job, is that they're the only people who don't laugh when something is funny, they just say out loud "That's funny."

Fan: "This joke is hilarious! I laughed a ton! My friends and I have been quoting it for years and it means so much to me! Thank you for writing it, you're such a funny person!" Me, solemn, brows furrowed,staring off into the past as if a soldier returning from the horrors of war, softly: "Thanks."

Maaaan I just switched to Firefox like a year ago. Now I gotta do this migration shit again?? Just leave us alone! www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla...

My pregnant friend just had her doctor tell her to ask ChatGPT what to name her child. The embarrassment I'd feel if someone asked me "how'd you name your kid?" and I said "ChatGPT" would make me sink into the center of the earth. Also, this implies the doctor definitely asks ChatGPT questions.

That's right, people are reviewing the special features on the AJ Goes to the Dog Park Bluray and RAVING about ME and how INSANE I AM and how everything I do at all times is BAD FOR ME which manifests itself by me making sure TINY DESKS are the APPROPRIATE SCALE Get the bluray: shorturl.at/qXqjy

Biggest animated movie of all time is Avatar 2.

Whenever I see things about "hey, once you make money, don't let lifestyle creep start happening!" And like... then what's the point? I would like to eat better food. It would be cool to ask someone to mow my lawn for me like once or twice. I'd love to watch more movies. I want to go on a trip!

The people who are leaking to the press about the events surrounding the Reiner family tragedy are hurting their loved ones even more and are ghouls who need to stfu

I get the same little speck of joy in my heart from fast forwarding through the ad break on a podcast and landing exactly on when they return that I get from topping up the tank at a gas station until it hits an even dollar number.

My agents told me to "pick some people you've always wanted to talk to in the industry, pie in the sky people, and we'll see if we can get a meeting!" and it's just turning into a list of old men who did special effects in the 1980's.

"Why would anyone want this?" I ask, reading news about anything in any subject.

I love this poster. I always complain about studios' lack of confidence in their own work. Be proud of what you made and say it's the best movie ever!

People send me tiktok links and I never see them because I have to download the app to see the link. I think the intent is to give me FOMO, but it's had the opposite effect. Every time I'm blocked from it, I feel kind of relieved to be honest. Like "Oh, I just never have to think about this"

A reminder that AJ Goes to the Dog Park is now FREE on Tubi (the best streaming service): tubitv.com/movies/10004... Also, you can see my production company logo on screen 8 seconds in. I was expecting Among Us to be the first public facing thing with my logo on it, but it's this instead!

"Out of pocket" is a phrase that has propagated over the last 3 years through middle management and HR types and it's like everyone decided to have their own personal interpretation of what it means.

When I meet someone who's work I love and respect and find out that they've seen MY work and love and respect it, my body has a visceral reaction of confusion, disgust, and fear. This is impossible. It makes me want to leave the conversation because clearly we don't share fundamental truths.

It's kinda nuts how every time AI gets put into some product, the number one thing people want to do with it is have it make porn or say some racist shit, and somehow companies never expect this.

Ahhh shit yeah! AJ Goes to the Dog Park is now on Tubi (aka the best streaming service) This hilarious movie is a hand-crafted marvel made by the most passionate people ever and directed by @tobytobyjones.bsky.social! It's worth watching! You can feel the love in it! tubitv.com/movies/10004...

Went to an IATSE Christmas party. Last year they gave out boxes of food. By the end of the party, they still had too much, so they were giving people two boxes instead of one. This year I noticed they ran out before the end of the event. Could be nothing. Could be something. I noticed it though.