Just for reference: I’ve been on staff with 23 other writers, and 7 of them have been WBTV workshop alumni. There isn’t a more direct path to staff writer in the world. You should apply!

Question: So in Hamlet, Queen Gertrude marries Claudius after Old Hamlet’s death. Any other examples (famous real world or literary) of someone marrying a dead spouse’s sibling? Like... I’m looking for a few scenarios where Jackie Kennedy marries Bobby after Jack gets shot.

Congrats, M. Raven Metzner!!! This is super exciting news! deadline.com/2019/05/raven-…

Subject matter aside (which is TERRIFYING)... I think this might be the best 15-sec commercial I've ever seen. For real. Special shoutout to the producer who was like... You know what the first three seconds needs? Subtle. Ominous. Strings. youtube.com/watch?v=MmOVQh…

Thanks goodness a new ULINE catalog finally came in the mail today. My script-writing loan-out was running perilously low on giant orange traffic barrels!

In "oh that's nice" news, the Pelicans win the #NBADraftLottery. In "what the hell is going on" news, literally everything else.

Changed my guitar strings tonight for the first time since 2005, so... fairly productive day.

Remember the big LAUSD strike? How it highlighted local classrooms with 40:1 teacher/student ratios? How books were falling apart and there were schools without nurses? If you live in LA, vote #YesonEE. The election is 6/4; and mail-in ballots are out now. latimes.com/opinion/endors…

So I'm pretty sure the guys next to me at the Coffee Shop are planning the next #FyreFestival. In the last 30 mins, I've overheard: 1) "Shit, that's a lot of planes." 2) "No, the other one from Destiny's Child." and 3) "What if we could get Larry Ellison's yacht?"

So in bucket list news... I'm flying to Indiana this weekend to play hoops on the preserved Hickory High set from #Hoosiers.

the real reason the raptors made the finals, it all makes sense now. Rob Perez

In case you weren’t sure what kind of car it was...

Pete Buttigieg: "If we adopt a platform that's way out to the left, [Republicans are] going to say we're socialists. If we adopt a more moderate or conservative platform, they're going to say we're socialists. So we might as well just do what we think is right."

In 1987, the federal government banned metal-tipped lawn darts because a single child died from one

Stopped for a quick drink at a lemonade stand in Harlan, Iowa. When life gives you lemons, make big structural change!

There needs to be a button several orders of magnitude stronger than "like" for how much I love this post...

Hey #SleepyHollow fans, guess who’s making a big guest appearance Sunday on the Season Premiere of God Friended Me? It’s Zach Appelman, aka Joe Corbin, aka Jenny’s favorite Wendigo! Watch him light up NYC on Sept 29 at 8/7c. #GodFriendedMe

Today my 4yo daughter learned King George from Hamilton was the same person as Kristoff from Frozen and it’s like the secrets of the Universe were unlocking themselves right before her eyes.

In post apocalyptic movies and games, there are always old movie posters up, and I’ve always wondered what poster would be left up everywhere in a disaster. I was completely unprepared for it to be Trolls: WorldTour