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There are 24 hours in a day, unless you have small children—in that case there are 72 hours, and none of them are yours.

There simply is no such thing as AI art.

Accidentally stumbled onto the #SanAntonio Krampus parade last weekend and it refilled my tank of weird.

“I’m running this monkey farm now, Frankenstein!”

Greatest sentence written in English ever.

Day of the Dead. Romero. 1985.

Tonight’s watch:

Dawn of the Dead (1978) directed by George Romero

Immigration is entering a country. Emigration is leaving one.

So: “Once trump's tour of duty is complete, the useful idiot will emigrate from America and immigrate to Russia."

My 4yo told me we didn’t have to win the turkey trot this year as long as we were in the top 3.

Tonight’s watch:

What is best in life?

To crush your friends and neighbors at the Turkey Trot, see them fall behind you, and to hear the lamentation of their children.

“Yes, this peace proposal was authored by the Cylons, but we also considered previous input from the human race. So what?”

They should have played father and son. #Filmsky

“Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.”

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan.

#FilmSky #MovieSky #Writing

Physically, I’m parenting three small kids.

Mentally, I’m in 2010, browsing a Borders Books and Music, coffee in hand, probably about to purchase a Coheed and Cambria cd—nothing planned for the rest of the day, until it’s time to drink with friends at new neighborhood bar later.

That’s smart. Strategy adopted!

4yo: We can share.

Me: Thank you!

4yo: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? That’s my mac and cheese!

Me: You said we could share!

4yo: I meant we can share YOUR food!

Tonight’s watch with the kiddos.

Big Hero 6 (2014)

Me, still grazing off of my kid’s Halloween candy.

Soul butter.

Big smarts on stage: pivot podcast in Chicago.
@profgalloway.com @karaswisher.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov Andrew Yang

“I look just like Frank Castle.”

—Guys driving Honda Odysseys with car seats and soccer cleats in the back, lying to themselves.

[He says with unassailable authority.]

Breakfast.

Just a reminder that the coolest villain name belongs to Apocalypto’s ZERO WOLF.

#FilmSky

"The Chicago Handshake."

On Nov. 10th, 1924, mobster and florist Dean O'Banion was greeted in his flower shop by three rivals, one of whom seized his right hand while the other two fired into him.

Our kids are trying to tell my wife and I where to go for our 11th anniversary. (This date includes them apparently.)

6yo suggest local Mexican ice cream place, his closer: “Dad, it’s so good. It’ll literally make your brain explode.”

I've been writing a document in my ReMarkable device--totally unaware of page or word count.

I guessed I was about at 20k words.

Just transferred it:

20,065 words.

I should go to Vegas.

We're all just pretending printers, leaf blowers, and Microsoft products actually work, right?

The Arc Raiders tagline confounds me.

Enlist. Resist

That dropped second period is intentional, right? Why? What does that choice accomplish?

Any copywriters want to weigh in and tell me what I’m missing?

Midday pep talk in the mirror.

“I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.”

— C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian.