Manthony Writes

Saw this beauty while running in Griffith Park.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

RIP Jimmy Cliff, you legend.

Woo hoo! Congrats!

@heidihornbacher.bsky.social Look what I found at registration at AFF! 🥳

The plane! The plane! AFF here we come!

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

True words in these times — “The most profound indication of a social malignancy… no sense of humor.”

We're really soaring here!

Straight from the #BlackList, "There are great prospects for this writer..." Pigeons of Paradise has been described as SOLID, CLEVER, FOCUSED and UNIQUE.

I’m a Screenwriter. Is It All Right if I Use A.I.?

“And though generative A.I. was trained on the work of human creators, so were you: Every show you’ve watched, every script you’ve read, surely left its mark. You have no cause to apologize.”

If I have to explain the flaw in this logic, you are too fucked to fix. 🖕

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

My animated feature comedy script Pigeons of Paradise is a second rounder at Austin Film Fest. 🐦🤣📝

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

What’s up Hawai’i? How you feelin’?

Tijuana Ricks and I started our monthlong residency at Hawai'i Volcano National Park! Mahalo, National Parks Arts Foundation! 🌺🌋🏝️✍️

So many great things to come! ☄️

True story bro.

Our half-hour comedy pilot, Painkillers, is a semifinalist for the Inroads Fellowship, Season 8! 🥳 🍹
Currently ranked in the top 3% of all scripts on Coverfly!

Our half hour medical comedy, Painkillers, has advanced to the semifinals at Raindance Film Festival! 🥳

Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk

This is what the world needs right now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

Painkillers is on the move!

Raindance quarterfinalist for Painkillers!

Tar Wars

@seriesfest.bsky.social
It begins!

Heading to SeriesFest 11 in Denver tomorrow! 🥳
Can’t wait!
✍️🎥🎬📺✍️
@seriesfest.bsky.social

Opinion | The Emergency Is Here Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Time for a Civic Uprising www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Where is our humanity?

IN MIDAIR -
High above a whimpering dog and errant vacuum --
Dusty and Bunny reunite.

They dance and twirl alonsgside other specks of dust set free -- a splendid ballet of ebb and flow.