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Creating intellectual property. It's in a flood zone with horrible soil and traces of lead paint, but I made it.
scottblaszak.github.io
scottblaszak.github.io
look, it's the running of the people with no morality.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures
The former vice president’s political group is poaching top officials from the foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
look, it's the running of the people with no morality.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
If you were a grifting wannabe dictator, what movie franchise would you leverage state power to reboot?
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you were a grifting wannabe dictator, what movie franchise would you leverage state power to reboot?
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
One of the trickiest parts of parenting is forcing your interests on your kid. But it's also one of the most rewarding.
For me.
For me.
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One of the trickiest parts of parenting is forcing your interests on your kid. But it's also one of the most rewarding.
For me.
For me.
You call your parent in a rest home dealing with neurodegenerative disease & you tell them about your writing career for a bit & then you wonder who's really losing their mind here.
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You call your parent in a rest home dealing with neurodegenerative disease & you tell them about your writing career for a bit & then you wonder who's really losing their mind here.
88% of all correspondence between writer friends is explanations why one hasn't read the other one's script yet.
And that's just fine.
And that's just fine.
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
88% of all correspondence between writer friends is explanations why one hasn't read the other one's script yet.
And that's just fine.
And that's just fine.
Pain is temporary.
Film is forever.
My head hurts.
Film is forever.
My head hurts.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Pain is temporary.
Film is forever.
My head hurts.
Film is forever.
My head hurts.
Saw Zootopia 2 in the theater. The 5yo had a lot of questions about the Hail Mary trailer.
"That's not real life, is it?"
"That's not real life, is it?"
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Saw Zootopia 2 in the theater. The 5yo had a lot of questions about the Hail Mary trailer.
"That's not real life, is it?"
"That's not real life, is it?"
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I keep coming back to this:
Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th.
Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.
Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th.
Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I keep coming back to this:
Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th.
Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.
Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th.
Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.
when i handwash dishes one thing I like to do is stack them in a tall complicated tower in a drying rack so that if anyone breathes too hard they'll all come crashing down like a noisey glass scarecrow and scare the crap out of anyone in my house
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
when i handwash dishes one thing I like to do is stack them in a tall complicated tower in a drying rack so that if anyone breathes too hard they'll all come crashing down like a noisey glass scarecrow and scare the crap out of anyone in my house
PARENTING TIP: set timer like "we'll do this for 10 minutes" then set the phone timer for 4 minutes.
and so on. I get 26-hour days with this method.
and so on. I get 26-hour days with this method.
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
PARENTING TIP: set timer like "we'll do this for 10 minutes" then set the phone timer for 4 minutes.
and so on. I get 26-hour days with this method.
and so on. I get 26-hour days with this method.
If you don’t remember it by the time you get home, it probably isn’t worth remembering you’re a hack trying to justify your laziness.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you don’t remember it by the time you get home, it probably isn’t worth remembering you’re a hack trying to justify your laziness.
The most precious commodity you have is your attention.
I’m so sorry you’re reading this.
I’m so sorry you’re reading this.
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention.
I’m so sorry you’re reading this.
I’m so sorry you’re reading this.
New study confirms AI will drink your milkshake but my milkshake will be waiting for me per usual with a side of golden french fries
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New study confirms AI will drink your milkshake but my milkshake will be waiting for me per usual with a side of golden french fries
Refreshing
Breaking:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Refreshing
At my house we're getting into the microdrama space.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
At my house we're getting into the microdrama space.
I watch lots of movies on my laptop but i do it in a movie theater
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I watch lots of movies on my laptop but i do it in a movie theater
he was a thought leader in the thoughtless space
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
he was a thought leader in the thoughtless space
I can never remember if DEFCON 1 or DEFCON 5 is the bad one.
And I work in the situation room .
And I work in the situation room .
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I can never remember if DEFCON 1 or DEFCON 5 is the bad one.
And I work in the situation room .
And I work in the situation room .
Flight attendant to coach screenwriters while closing the first class curtain: “Maybe if you’d worked on more commercial concepts earlier in your life, I wouldn’t have to do this.”
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Flight attendant to coach screenwriters while closing the first class curtain: “Maybe if you’d worked on more commercial concepts earlier in your life, I wouldn’t have to do this.”
Local screenwriter wraps caring about his screenplay.
"These past few months have been so, so unimaginably special, but you couldn't pay me to read that scene again."
"These past few months have been so, so unimaginably special, but you couldn't pay me to read that scene again."
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Local screenwriter wraps caring about his screenplay.
"These past few months have been so, so unimaginably special, but you couldn't pay me to read that scene again."
"These past few months have been so, so unimaginably special, but you couldn't pay me to read that scene again."
This fall, the horror film everyone’s been talking about. It’s SLIGHTLY MISPELLED MONSTER.
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This fall, the horror film everyone’s been talking about. It’s SLIGHTLY MISPELLED MONSTER.
working on a script that involves the NBA, the mafia, FBI investigations, and boatloads of fraud, and I was starting to think it was all getting a bit far fetched...
and then this morning happened.
and then this morning happened.
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
working on a script that involves the NBA, the mafia, FBI investigations, and boatloads of fraud, and I was starting to think it was all getting a bit far fetched...
and then this morning happened.
and then this morning happened.
And that's how the Toronto Rangers made it into my script.
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And that's how the Toronto Rangers made it into my script.