Brian Michael Scully

Entertainment industry assistants will recognize this kind of CYA BCC follow up so your boss can see you’re on top of it.

YOU LET GLINNER TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS?

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

*sarcastic gasp*

the hell you say

*stares coldly at bigots*

Being able to manipulate people successfully often derives from a rock-solid understanding of human nature. So does a lot of good art. It would be awesome if talent was always married to virtue, but… *gestures vaguely at all the things*

Would Orson Welles want his lost classic restored by A.I.? You mean the same Orson Welles who, when Ted Turner was leading the charge to colorize black & white movies, famously proclaimed "don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons"? I think I can make an educated guess here.

It's hard. "Can you separate the art from the artist"--I got asked that 1 million times in the last decade. It took a long time but I came up with my answer to that Kobayashi Maru dilemma. Talked about it with @colehaddon.bsky.social in 5am Storytalk in 2024: colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-jo...

Julie wrote up this very straightforward and specific guide on general meetings as a tv/film writer. Super helpful summary of what goes on, how to prepare, how to conduct yourself (including the elusive "what do I wear") and what comes after.

This is something I tried to poke at with almost every ep of Fuckbois of Literature (and the spinoffs of Fuckbois of Classical Music/Fine Art). It's sometimes as simple as mentally reframing it from "they were a monster BUT made important art" to "they were a monster AND they made important art"

oh no my morale hasn't improved I might need more posters

Given "box office standards" it has made approximately 1% (not a typo) of what it needs to simply break even. When you are done trying to fellate Trump, do let us know.

When we creatives complain that studios always learn the wrong lessons from success, this is the kind of shit we mean.

A screenshot from The Simpsons. Homer wears a t-shirt that depicts Uncle Sam aggressively chomping a bite out of a handheld Earth. The shirt is captioned, "TRY AND STOP US." Fuck ICE. Abolish it all.

The Simpsons was a documentary

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Catherine O'Hara executed more with a single creative choice than AI could ever do even a thousand iterations from now. And she did that hundreds of times per episode. And hundreds of times per production. It's almost as if artistic expression is about intentional choice and not a fucking average.

hey babe what's your sign?

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

YES LAYNE YESSSSS

I mean tbf this is just my baseline

The classic Simpsons meme. Bart groans, "This is the *worst* first draft I've ever written." Homer comforts, "The worst first draft you've ever written so far."

The bad news is that this site is almost certainly filled with feds by now. The good news is that we can give them all fetishes that will absolutely make them question their entire lives. This is the plot to pretty much every Grant Morrison comic by the way.

is this some new form of double satire

your definition of "everyone" does not align with our Earth definition

A colored in kid’s drawing of a writer, a perky looking cartoon person holding a giant pencil

I’m not sure the writers on this website necessarily match the image of the profession being taught to the first grader in her career unit

Two questions: are you fucking kidding me and are they staffing?

did they though

white evangelical christianity is a religion of fascism and death, part a billion.

The junior senator from Massachusetts - a Democrat - just said Democrats supporting the funding of the DHS and ICE support the murder of Americans.

He said the quiet part aloud, the part Dems have been trying to gaslight you about.

The party is openly collaborating with the regime's power grab.