Brandon Hoàng

bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.

"But I don't think they make that much!"

Halve that. Halve it again.

the last unintentional (yet hilarious) READ campaign was that video of Andrew Tate bragging about the reasons why he doesn’t read books

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

*pats barstool at Kelly's Olympian*

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

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when Nickelodeon bought the building next door and expanded the studio in Burbank, they placed quotes from former creators around the campus.

This one from my all time favorite Nick show The Adventures of Pete and Pete is like the blueprint I strive for in my own writing.

What Is the First Nintendo Crossover? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games The search for the first instance of one Nintendo product referencing another.

Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

This is why we’re friends

I love to see it!!

I love to see it!!

Tate is unintentionally bringing back the old READ campaigns

I cannot imagine a more powerful endorsement of reading than this clip.

Every time I want to give up I put my clothes in the trash like Spider-Man.

TOON TUESDAY
#ToonTuesday

Mario RPG

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

RIP to the absolute GOAT candy

legit lol

the parts with Grace in the trailers were enough to make me not pick this up (the parts with Ashley in RE4 were too scary for me!) but after all these incredible reviews I guess I have to just do it???

It feels so hollow to be promoting a new comic alongside all these horrors happening in real time. I know we’re all out here doing the best we can—some of it will help improve things, and some of it won’t move the needle at all.

Still, thank you to everyone who has ever supported small creators.

Miiiiight be my favorite episode. I fought hard for this one and consider myself so lucky to have been able to write it.

Peek Behind the Pages coming soon!