Steve Barr

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." ~Alfred Adler

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
~Henry Mencken

Sure, but only *most* people are bigots. Every reindeer I’ve ever met has been racist AF

This holiday season, remember the lessons of Rudolph: most reindeers are xenophobic dicks who only put up with you if you save their asses

My emotional default is "affably baffled."

I want to learn how to play the Blues. But just the drinking and sounding cool parts, without the sadness or having to learn an instrument.

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How does this sort of thing work? How would someone who read that get in touch with the potential buyer?

(I'm ISA ignorant)

"God does not play dice."
~ Albert Einstein

Of course He does, Al.
It's just that He's God, so the dice are loaded.

In Hollywood, everyone is hot and no one is horny

I know a Star Wars nerd who still has one in the original package.

He keeps trying to sell it on Ebay but he's asking for too much

I've been buffing mine, trying to get it back to cherry condition

The difference between perseverance & obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will & the other comes from a strong won't.
~HW Beecher

What is astrology is right, but our lives are dictated by the planets of some *other* solar system?

Overheard:
"When did you lose your virginity?"
"I didn't lose my virginity. I escaped from it."

Dick van Dyke

Unsolicited Dick pic

"We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies."
~Walt Disney

hooboy things have changed, uncle Walt

A podcast of straight white men
A condescension of straight white men
A privilege of straight white men
An entitlement of SWM
A rally
A board room
A NotAll
A klan
A mayonnaise

What's the collective noun for straight white men?

How would corporate decisions change if executive bonuses were based on how the company did in the longer term (say, 5 or 10 years) rather than how the company did this quarter?

This guy gets it

Thank you!

My brain is like this 24/7.
Sometimes I protect the rest of y’all from it

There are always barbarians at the gate. If in fighting them you become a barbarian, your victory becomes your surrender.

Practicing to be a producer? When you talk with a writer, say "...but I'd love to read the spec when it's ready" after every sentence.

#scriptsky #filmsky

A lemon a day keeps the scurvy away.

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Shitty people assume everyone else is shitty.

Whenever a new social benefit is proposed, the people who shout the loudest about how it will be abused are exactly the people who would abuse it.

Whenever you see a political meme on social media, ask yourself one thing:

Is this blaming the problems of society on people who have very little power in the society?

Or is this blaming the problems of society on people who actually have the power to change society?

I've read this, can confirm it's excellent and very very castable.