Aaron Starmer

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by magical mystery tours..."

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Tons of people worked insanely hard to make it work as well as it does, particularly writer/director Brian Duffield and stars Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer. So if you're interested in an allegorical-existential-teen-romance-splatter-horror-comedy, give it a try!

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This week marks the 5-year anniversary of the SPONTANEOUS movie. Due to it being, um, 2020, it didn't get the theatrical run it deserved, but it's built up a lovely following since and maintains its 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I only wrote the book, but I'm still very proud of the film.

Indeed. But there are people out there (beyond just politicians) who have more options than us when it comes to strategy. At the minimum, we can continue to push them for action, and to remind others like us to do the same.

Yeah. Let's hope those units are few and far between.

True enough. I've given up predicting what will happen, but I certainly know there's a lot of people in military leadership that are disgusted and embarrassed by this.

I can guarantee many of the generals and senior officers have children that live (and thrive) in these cities. It's like they think everyone in the military is some city-hating yokel.

Horrifying

This is a fucking crisis.

So many authors have already shared this, but it's a fantastic distillation of how the industry works for those who don't know.

Friendly reminder that I block people who post some variant of "it won't matter because nothing matters" on sight. Not even because they're wrong, but because I find this habit of saying the most tedious and predictable thing as if that makes you an edgy truth teller incredibly grating.

I'm sorry but you can't just call a movie STEVE. Especially one with Cillian Murphy starring in it.

Found this old Landlord Certificate from 1999. Monthly rent in Colchester was $234. Minimum wage was $5.15/hour, so someone could rent an apartment with a week of work at minimum wage. Wild. I don’t know what Colchester was like then, but it’s very nice now.

New Hemingway story just dropped…

The Newbery committee dropped the ball when they failed to recognize this one…

While it’s sad that people have come to expect censorship in states like Florida, it’s also worrying that some people feel so confident that it could never happen in their state.

It can happen anywhere. Pay attention and speak out.

For decades I went through life without knowing anyone (besides my immediate family) that had the same last name as me. Now there's even a term...sigh...

The mixture of gun culture and gaming/meme culture that's been brewing for fifteen years now is really coming home to roost. The preteens raised on this shit are now grown adults with severely warped views of the world and the capability and encouragement to act on their obsessions and delusions.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good

First reactions are trickling in for YOU ARE NOW OLD ENOUGH TO HEAR THIS. And I'm proud to announce that it's a Junior Library Guild Selection!

It's always an honor to be featured in the JLG boxes. This means a lot more kids will find the book in a lot more libraries. In other words: great news!

Was just wondering what the heck the happened to the author DAN BROWN. So went on Wikipedia and saw that he has a new book out…tomorrow!I’m actually surprised he’s not popular again in our stupid “everything is a conspiracy” political moment.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

[sings softly] i see your truuuu colors, shining through.....

Pour some ooze on it, feed it some pizza and see what happens.

Maybe the best one ever.

Hand soaps recalled nationwide over potential for 'serious and life-threatening infections' A number of soap products sold nationwide are being recalled over concerns that using them could result in "serious and life-threatening infections."

I usually don’t worry about bacteria in my anti-bacterial soap but I guess I’m a big idiot. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...

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Found a file from 2001 where I jotted down ideas for sitcoms:

THE WHITES: starring Betty White and Barry White as a married couple

OH, YOU!: Two gay young men become the most popular pledges for a football fraternity at Ohio University and change hearts and minds.

Title begets concept I guess...

That was before we learned that the government and big pharma were filling them with mercury to...turn us all into mad hatters?