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Writer; Television, Comic Books, Book Books. Married to @JenAshleyWright. Dad. // Contact: https://t.co/CT6X4Aidvv
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Oct 4 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Watched my wife fast forward through an entire episode of Industry to show me one scene and remembered that the streaming wars will be won by the first platform to implement:

* Bookmarks
* Playlists
* SMART Playlists (i.e. alternate The Office and Parks and Rec by airdate). We've had streaming platforms for a thousand years now and we still can't send friends a playlist of "Top Ten Episodes to Get You Into Seinfeld" or "Six Hours of Christmas Episodes For Holiday Party Background."
Sep 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
One of my biggest fears/problems with this dude is that it’s not just his supporters being violent on his behalf, it’s that he raised the fame and rhetoric temperature so high that crazy people just started doing crazier things, without clear motivation. Like SHOOTING HIS EAR. How does calling a bomb threat to a school help Trump or his cause or the goal of white supremacy in that town. There’s no internal logic. He’s just set everything at eleven and we live there now.
Aug 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Vance is gonna be rich and famous forever but he’s gonna be the kind of rich guy where you’re the third billed speaker at something called THE THINKER’S CONFERENCE at the Indianapolis Marriott and chooses a forever shrinking spotlight over seeing his kids become their own people. He’s gonna keep using a younger photo on all his materials
May 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There is a conversation happening about AI replacing writers, driven by people who neither write, nor make and use AI, and it’s so thoroughly free of real world facts or details they might as well be talking about a cool magic wand they heard about. “Um like if you wanted two characters to kiss but they hated each other could um like the AI make that cheaper and faster”
May 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It’s 2023 and the hottest tech trends are physical discs of TV seasons, group texts, and blogging via email newsletters. Before I hit send, I checked twice to make sure I knew what what year it was.
May 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
These *really* look like the before and after got swapped. Streamlining is when you have to add a half-dozen words of explanation right
May 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
No offense but that was exactly it’s brand already

Hi I am the new ceo of McDonald’s perhaps we should try selling hamburgers via clown CNN was already the middle one you can’t gaslight me about this I wrote for a talk show from 2015 - 2020
May 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Everyone on this website who bills themselves as a great thinker is living bad take to bad take like some kind of Clickbait Uncut Gems keeping the lights on for another day by asking out loud if waiters should be paid at all or why children don’t get married anymore I did not ask to live in the bad faith attention economy
May 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I would never bring my family to a city as dangerous as New York, not after hearing about those cats breaking the fourth wall and prancing directly into the audience Don’t get me started on the opera that literally has a phantom in it
May 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hey if writers are so easy to replace with reality tv and computers, why are producers contorting themselves and the system to try to secretly keep them working

This SCREAMS how badly they need writers and how inevitably the writers are going to win “We don’t care if you strike we have a strike proof five year streaming plan but please please please risk your career to secretly sell out your colleagues for way less money than you deserve, we’re so fucked if we don’t finish Alvin and The Chipmunks 7: Chipperoni Squeakzza”
May 13, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I’m going insane. Image David Zaslav made them pause Fleabag on a yacht because a sex scene made him uncomfortable. Image
May 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It is astonishing that someone can be writing at this level of pay and exposure about an issue that they understand this poorly. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. It would be like if National Geographic paid me to imagine how lobsters reproduce without googling it first. Important context here: I grew up in a religious household and was never told how baby lobsters are made.
May 6, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Every bad boss I ever had told me I was just lucky to be there and there were a million people out there who would be happy to do the job for less. If that sounds familiar to your own life, support creative professionals, especially if you are or want to become one. #WGAStrong If you do want to have a creative career someday, tagging studios on twitter to tell them you’ll work cheaper than the writers who are striking is shooting yourself in the foot on multiple levels for a gambit that wasn’t going to work to begin with.
May 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Today, a total stranger, not in the biz, found out I was on strike and said to me, “The arrogance of that man.” I’m not gonna blow up her spot, but it’s possible the average person outside this conflict is becoming aware of it and choosing a side.
May 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“the past decade or so” ImageImageImageImage “Writing is bad now” are you watching less
Apr 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Twitter right now is like if every time you posted on Facebook there was a chance Mark Zuckerberg would reply Tom Hanks drinks baby blood. I’m having a bad time with the version of this website that is the fiefdom of a lunatic who is addicted to being the main character.
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“If you indict trump you will make his supporters mad they will mobilize and he will become more powerful than ever” dude I don’t know what to tell you I am not in charge of any of this “If you destroy the hornets nest it will only make the hornets mad just stay in your house forever it’s their driveway now”
Mar 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Blowing the GDP of Iceland to own the website whose only product is people saying stuff like “peeing after playing in the snow just hit different.” It did though
Mar 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Don Draper took one look at Michael Ginsberg’s work. It was good — TOO good. It made Don sick. Or maybe that was the eleven vodkas. Either way, he needed to think fast.

“This work is … bad actually,” said Don, putting out a cigarette through the illustration of the baby’s eye. Ginsberg knew the work was good. He would show Don. He would show EVERYONE.

He would cut off his nipple.
Sep 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I was reading the subtitles of End of Evangelion out loud to the baby (because she can’t read) and my Apple Watch spontaneously initiated a suicide intervention. Image I have been covering her eyes during the violent and gross parts which is most of it.
Sep 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If you described this man’s situation to me and asked me to draw a picture of him I would get it right on the first try To be fair, this is also true of me.