This is frustrating. I cannot concoct an argument that counters this.

Watching the most recent music video of Toomaj Salehi who has been sentenced to death by the government of Iran basically for protesting them and rapping.

https://youtu.be/Jpi7d_uQ5Ec

The first witness called in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial was David Pecker. This is reminiscent of the first witness called in Al Capone’s first criminal trial: Frank Dickjoke.

Worked with an acting coaching client on a scene shooting soon, and among other things we played with knowing what your character is after while simultaneously not believing the other characters are being totally honest with what they're saying. Cool how perception and intention can interplay.

Good news.

https://apnews.com/article/net-neutrality-fcc-broadband-regulation-cc8421bc4f11a3e0f6ffc22c358fbfd0

Happy to again have my writing in this week’s This Week This Week show tonight!

The news, but funny.

Go see it if you’re in Los Angeles!

Get tickets from here: https://openfisttheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/

🫴🐦 > 🌳🐦🐦

Supporting our friends who are protecting us and our friends is a good idea. Glad we are again now.

“The name for the group of U.S. citizens who more or less would like to be permitted to murder their fellow citizens with (among other things) their cars is ‘Republican.’ You could also say ‘evangelical Christian’ or ‘conservative’ or ‘confederate’ or ‘MAGA’ or ‘white supremacist,’ if you like; there are plenty of synonyms, all of them identifying groups made comfortable by the thought of imprisonment and bad use and death coming to others they deem unworthy of life. I'm told that it would be beyond the pale to say ‘Nazi,’ because there is apparently an important distinction to draw between Nazis and people who want exactly what Nazis want and pursue those things using the exact same methods and language and rationales, but give themselves non-Nazi excuses for doing so, and if I ever remember what that distinction is, I'll let you know right away, because I am a huge fan of precision and nuance.”

“… we should also acknowledge that the Democratic Party has a leader who has, for example, not tried to overthrow democracy in order to establish a white Christian dictatorship, and has actually walked with striking workers, and hasn't published plans for dispatching roving gangs of deputized brute forces to round up millions of people, and he doesn't appoint judges who are aligned with and/or bribed by fascist white Christians, and he's not facing 91 criminal charges while posing an active threat to the lives of the judges and jurors, and so on and so forth, and so despite many failings, if he and his party wins, Americans Who Want to Kill Americans will not be as empowered as if the white Christian party wins.”

https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

Just learned this song is based on a real partnership for a drug-free America PSA.

Song: https://youtu.be/oSPT27XyY1U

PSA: https://youtu.be/XGAVTwhsyOs

And this is the actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383422/

Worked with an acting coaching client on material they're going to play, and explored how it can go viscerally. How much space you take up and how hard you metaphorically push the other characters can transform how you do what you do.

NASA is seeking future innovative methods that could help retrieve rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars. Gig work apps, like Uber and Grubhub, offered to pick up the rocks, but NASA’s no wage-theft policy killed that plan.

I am thrilled to be one of the writers of tonight’s This Week This Week show!

The news, but funny.

Go see it if you’re in Los Angeles!

Get tickets here: https://openfisttheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

The super wealthy will get a salary/compensation cap. The only question is whether it will be gentle, or ungentle.

It has always been that way throughout history, eventually.

https://bit.ly/HowToAvoidGuillotineWrist

“If management fails to reach a deal with their unionized writers, picketing would begin on Wednesday, April 24, outside Sesame Workshop’s offices in New York City.” - Writers Guild of America, East

Interesting read: https://post.news/@/dabeezer/2fEZ2xs9OjlRPAMeUjouEcIYG2A