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Comedy Screenwriter. ISA finalist. Slated #2 on Top of the Charts. Page Awards QF. https://tinyurl.com/2w2nspmn Citizen of the entire world, in the Socratic fashion. Resident of Raleigh, NC.

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Describe your plot in five words or less — if you dare.

“Because municipal pay ain’t enough.”

12.03.2026 02:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drones, obviously, carrying oil in buckets. Can’t Amazon handle that?

12.03.2026 02:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

$2.99 on Hilton Head Island SC today. (Don’t tell anyone I’m here 😬)

09.03.2026 03:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You left out pitching. Those who believe the best way to decide whether to read your writing based on your performative skills as a pitch person… 🤬

07.03.2026 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“…like he’s holding pocket queens.”

❤️

06.03.2026 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reach-in cooler at Walgreens

Reach-in cooler at Walgreens

Seems like this cooler @ Walgreens would have some Coca-Cola inside… but #NoCoke 🤷‍♂️

04.03.2026 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@kaine.senate.gov Instead of a “War Powers Resolution” to end the military action in #Iran, consider writing up a proper Declaration of War, for all of your colleagues to go on record as FOR or AGAINST.

In other words, show how war is supposed to be declared, then vote NO.

02.03.2026 12:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve concluded that the best way to find out if there’s anything that does NOT go well with bacon… is to have bacon with everything. 🥓

25.02.2026 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Americans—especially journalists—should resist becoming inured to fascism. … Call it what it is: Fascism.

There. Fixed it, according to our own DoD. archive.org/details/Army...

23.02.2026 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster concept showing fire truck and crew for animation

Poster concept showing fire truck and crew for animation

Locking in this version of poster for proof-of-concept short. #SideHustle

19.02.2026 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you get us past the paywall?

18.02.2026 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seriously. The push & pull of “proper formatting” vs. creativity / unique voice / show-don’t-tell (but also please tell) can be maddening. This cuts right through that Gordian Knot!

18.02.2026 02:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Beautifully done!

18.02.2026 01:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Apparently can’t DM unless followed back. Suffice it to say I have copy editing experience with my father’s last book “A LESS PERFECT UNION” about SCOTUS during Reconstruction, including a memorable chapter on the Williams v. Mississippi that greenlit the literacy tests in MS’ 1890 constitution.

16.02.2026 21:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It would be most unfortunate to lose this chapter. May I take a stab at copy editing — gratis — to see if there’s a suitable compromise? Dropping into DMs to elaborate.

16.02.2026 21:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tom Homan is a fascist.

There, fixed it.

15.02.2026 17:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Having become Grey List eligible in the year 19-blah-de-blah (I know, “ouch!”), let me say Happy Birthday!! and assure you there are multiple productive decades still ahead.

15.02.2026 17:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our court system is not working, especially the most important court.

There. Fixed it.

“Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.”

15.02.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Melania (2026) ⭐ 1.3 | Documentary 1h 44m | PG

@daysia.bsky.social #Popcornmeter isn’t the only game in town. Check out the audience reviews of #Melania on IMDb (which is owned by Amazon). Over 50k reviews and avg is 1.3/10

www.imdb.com/title/tt3529...

08.02.2026 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess this rules out Lake Flacid as a future host 🧐

08.02.2026 13:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Most” racist thing implies that he’s seen other racist things… 😳

07.02.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First page of new screenplay “THE ACCELERATED PATH”

First page of new screenplay “THE ACCELERATED PATH”

#FirstPageFriday #ScriptSky #Screenwriting #Comedy

New project started this week!

06.02.2026 15:12 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Might want to strengthen that prohibition against #ICE or #CBP or other #DHS personnel messing with polling places, seizing ballots or voting machines, etc.

Also speedy, enforceable, mandatory penalties for perjury or non-compliance w court orders.

06.02.2026 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monty Python and the Holy Sausage

Monty Python and the Sausage Grail

Sausage, Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Sausage and the Holy Grail

05.02.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democrats moving to & clustering in large coastal cities exacerbates the GOP’s structural advantage.

Dems should migrate, en masse, from the reddest red states into the swingy-est swing states —> AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, WI to create a structural advantage.

Where we live matters!

04.02.2026 18:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This reads like a headline from The Onion. Pity the poor folks who write satire for a living now that reality and satire are indistinguishable.

04.02.2026 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK, here’s a hint… more oxygen isn’t how you put out a fire. Take away the oxygen.

04.02.2026 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I suppose the journalist could say it’s important to expose the lies, or to ask the tough questions. HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT, 10 YEARS LATER?!?!

04.02.2026 14:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why do credible journalists bother going to the White House anymore? Seriously, what’s special about “access” to a pathological liar? They ask questions, he lies, they amplify the lies under the guise of reporting what he said, and spend the rest of their energy fact-checking.

04.02.2026 14:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot showing IMDb rating of 1.1 (out of 10) for Melania

Screenshot showing IMDb rating of 1.1 (out of 10) for Melania

Dang… #Amazon owns #IMDb 😳

01.02.2026 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0