Daniel O'Brien

last night, at 2:17 am, all
the neighborhood pups ran to my house and no one knows why.

Except me, the 2:17 Smoocher.

I changed my mind this is the most important thing.

Not the most important thing but we figured out commercial timing 300 years ago & YouTube ad breaks are so bad it almost seems purposeful.

I think there’s value in making a segment of your creative output as unprofitable as you can. There’s so much pressure about turning your hobby into a side-hustle; try making at least some of it un-hustle-able.

*Catch 22 voice*
Hey SeBULBA
Gettin' kinda pod in here.

Inside sunglasses, smoke rising up from below frame. "The fucking critics don't know shit." Ruined jacket. That's the energy.

No one will ever make a doc about me but if they do I am requesting someone show up with John-Mellencamp-in-Billy-Joel-Doc Energy.

Lots of hyper-specific similarities in Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning and Happy Gilmore 2, not sure what to do with these thoughts.

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

ROLL THE CLIP

HOT BILLY JOEL SUMMER

scar and zazu are the only animals in the pridelands with a british accent, did they go to the same high school

I guess I just don't believe that he would wish another person "Happy Birthday."

FINE I'll rewatch Michael Clayton.

last night i had a dream i was eating a giant marshmallow and when i woke up i just laid there for a while worrying about money

It’s not a bad thing, I’m just saying that at some point we need to have a CONVERSATION about how much Shea Whigham works.

a screenshot from a food ordering app showing a picture of chicken nuggets and the text: "Chicken Pops Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood."

aI iS cOmInG fOr YoUr JoBs

I like that sometimes on Full House The Beach Boys showed up for an Event but sometimes it’s just The Beach Boys are hungry & at our house.

Jersey Shore for life.

Piece made me genuinely lol, a whole-ass article about Seaside T-shirts as if they aren't exclusively for 16-year-olds trying to look edgy.

What’s everybody hummin’ when they’re walking around the house these days, I’m doin’ “Beep bop boop, beepin’ boopity bop."

Spinning my phone in my hand before putting it in my pocket like I'm Revolver Ocelot

I look pretty fucking good

I look like a serial killer

Genuinely shocked at the difference between the photo I took before my passport appointment and the photo that the lady took in the office.
I genuinely think they use certain equipment as a prank.

Rejecting (?) offers (???) and then the studio CAME BACK (?!?!?)

I've been writing professionally since 2007 and I have no idea how this industry works. www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...

Whoever handled branding for roosters did an incredible job convincing people they only crow ONCE in the MORNINGS.

frasier: niles did you see the world's two worst people are fighting?

niles: i didn't know maris's mother was in town

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I never know who we're mad at on here.