Seeing WGA deal points reminds me that when I was a staff writer, John McNamara, running a 1st season show, called the studio and asked them to make an exception to their policy and pay my writing partner & me a script fee. Just wanted to say that in public.

go wild, people who make tee shirts

this isn't what I said ❤️

Immigrants get the job done. nytimes.com/2023/10/02/hea…

ITS RELEASE DAY. ITS RELEASE DAY. SHE'S HERE SHE'S HERE

send pics David Reed

We're grateful to everyone who submitted to this year's Sixth Finch chapbook contest, and we're excited to announce the results. Congratulations to our finalists and winners. The new chapbooks should be ready in March.

texted John McNamara "Hey, someone's talking shit about you in Variety" because it felt like the least embarrassing way to let him know I shouted him out. A few real mensches have helped me a ton over the years, and they all get endearingly "please shut up" when I mention it.

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Howdy, I've got two new poems in latest issue of @sixthfinch, if that's your kink

Cord Jefferson calling out Hollywood during his Oscar speech…hell yes “Instead of making one $200 million movie, try making twenty $10 million movies or fifty $4 million movies”

my scientist friend just called the double brood cicada emergence "biological nuerology, like the eclipse but with freaky screaming bugs" and now it seems obvious why I'm OBSESSED with it

ouch

I loved making this list. Maybe I'll dig up my first list, which was ~ 34 books long, and post that too sometime.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember - when you called something a bottle episode that wasn’t one

Tons of people still read these writing threads, here and on my ig... I'm thinking of putting more screenwriting ho-tos together. I'd like to put 'em somewhere that makes sense. Is Substack where folks go for writing now? Someone more online than me, give me your thoughts.