June 28, come see the artistic event that my fellow creatives & I have crafted in Fuller Seminary's Resilient Artist Project! The theme: "Shalom: the work of restoring relationships, reintroducing presence, and putting things back into their right place" eventbrite.com/e/the-lighter…

If you've been wondering why Brad Bird's next film isn't getting a proper theatrical release despite being Brad Bird's next film, well, here you go.

after the “taste is becoming the moat” debate in the valley, one had to expect a startup willing to automate it so much money will go into what is essentially a question of belief in what might be called a human soul

Ok, after all these years, we finally have a 'not an Onion headline' note where absent the warning I did assume it was an Onion headline until I saw the note.

My advice? Fuck a deck. I'm all decked out. Write an outline and sit down and write the script. The average script page is 225 words. Four pages a day for 12 days, you have a television script. Add another fifteen days, you have a feature. And you're not done. Writing is rewriting. Put it away for another week, and come back with new eyes. I'm not saying it will be any good. Not yet. But it's a start. Not telling you anything I'm not also doing. If you put all that energy into a deck and it doesn't sell ---and trust me, most don't, all you have is a nice brochure. At least with a spec, you have something to show for it. Something you can build on. Stop making excuses. Rip the band-aid off. Working full time? Toni Morrison got up at 3:45 am., wrote from 4 to 6, and then took her kids to school, and then edited books full time. And still managed to write Song Of Solomon, the Bluest Eye, and constant other classics while waiting for her shot. Don't have a computer? Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Stallone all write by hand, which is something I've gone back to. Moleskine and Paper Mate markers. No distractions, you can do it a anywhere, and when you retype, gives you a second bite at the apple. (Photograph your pages. If you lose your notebook or spill coffee on it, that's all she wrote.) Don't start with four pages. Start with one. Fifteen minutes -- you spend longer in the shower, brushing your teeth, and scrolling. I wish I could give you a shortcut, but I can't. Writing sucks. No way around that. If you box, no one else gonna put in the roadwork, skip rope, hit the bag, or get punched in the face for you. That's your job. Everybody wants a hug, and to be told it's all going to be okay, and I can't tell you that. But what I can tell you is no unwritten script ever gets sold. As for me? I've got miles to run and pages to hit. Keep going....Always Forward, Forward Always...

That's the movie. On a platter. What happened in between.

I'm working out listening to The Tortured Poets Department. It really is game over for y'all when I return.

Pizza Hut is being sold to private equity. Fast food giant Yum! Brands is selling the pizza chain, and all of the locations outside of China will be bought by private equity firm LongRange Capital for $1.5 billion. China locations are being sold to Yum China for $1.2 billion.

tfw when you realize that your own wife already wrote the guide to A.I. alignment --

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UFC boss Dana White condemns fighter Josh Hokit for saying "Michelle Obama is a man" during the White House’s UFC Freedom 250 event. “I understand that the Obama’s are public figures but I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families. Everyone knows my position on free speech but I hate that kind of nonsense.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/dan…

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RT @dajosc11: From WWE Global Ambassador Titus O’Neil on Instagram.

This developing story about Dario's failed communications with the White House confirms everything I've ever believed about the enormous power of the Sales Chad. You can be the smartest, most hard working, well-meaning guy around, but if you can't get people to like you, it's all for nothing. When the time comes to send one of your own to meet inside the Halls of Power, you don't send the Geek Squad. You must send the affable, beer-drinking, golf-loving Sales Chad. It literally doesn't matter if he understands the product half as well as everyone else. You send him. It's what he was put on Earth to do.

This is a good take. At some point, the delusions wear off and people hunger for the truth.

Yeah...

I'm sure what happened next was a strong condemnation of the remarks from everyone else with a microphone, right?

This thing is quite weird. Eric Trump says the messages are AI generated. But he doesn't accuse Cormier of making it up. But there's no way Cormier was fooled, since he was in the conversation. Note that Eric can't say he was hacked, because then the DMs would still exist. He's saying they don't exist. Cormier was lying or Eric Trump is lying. Those are the only two possibilities. But if Cormier is lying, why doesn't Eric say her is lying? Why does he say he deleted his post, "which confirms it was clearly fabricated"? It doesn't confirm that at all. There is another possibility.

The official broadcast for Trump's UFC fight announces that fighters will be paid in crypto from the Trump family's crypto company

The most Brawndo Idiocracy moment of #UFC #Freedom250 thus far tonight.

Gotta love the White House UFC Freedom 250 MMA fighting event being sponsored by: - Polymarket - Riyadh Season, aka Saudi Arabia tourism - Crypto.com And many more! 🙃 😬