T. Darr
@yesquite.bsky.social
Screenwriter, author, editor, mediocre drummer
As in “please don’t put that turd in my ass” or “please, make with the turd already?”
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
As in “please don’t put that turd in my ass” or “please, make with the turd already?”
Omg I’m literally weeping. My blanket’s all fucking wet now, thanks a lot.
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Omg I’m literally weeping. My blanket’s all fucking wet now, thanks a lot.
That’s how I got my start! As an admin at a tech startup, I asked the overworked marketing VP if I could help out w/copy. He tested my skills, said yes. My turnaround was fast, I boosted conversions, so he made me a copywriter. That was my career for years. And it was killer prep for screenwriting.
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
That’s how I got my start! As an admin at a tech startup, I asked the overworked marketing VP if I could help out w/copy. He tested my skills, said yes. My turnaround was fast, I boosted conversions, so he made me a copywriter. That was my career for years. And it was killer prep for screenwriting.
I think you’re taking this all a bit too seriously and personally, don’t you?
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I think you’re taking this all a bit too seriously and personally, don’t you?
Nobody should be forced to pay for a subscription to figure out if their cheese is poison.
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Nobody should be forced to pay for a subscription to figure out if their cheese is poison.
There’s plenty of room in cinema for cotton candy like Tarantino’s movies, but he shouldn’t kid himself. He’s much closer to Michael Bay than Stanley Kubrick.
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
There’s plenty of room in cinema for cotton candy like Tarantino’s movies, but he shouldn’t kid himself. He’s much closer to Michael Bay than Stanley Kubrick.
I think there is an epidemic of loneliness, in general.
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I think there is an epidemic of loneliness, in general.
Meryl Streep was my first choice too but I cast her with Steven Seagal in a His Girl Friday remake. The mismatch of energies would be weird as hell, but Streep and Nielsen could actually work.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Meryl Streep was my first choice too but I cast her with Steven Seagal in a His Girl Friday remake. The mismatch of energies would be weird as hell, but Streep and Nielsen could actually work.
I grew up dirt poor in Texas. I’m a socialist and a woman. So I know this place is deeply flawed. I’m moving to CA soon! But your assessment of TX doesn’t reflect my reality. There‘s been no daily competition. My communities are strong, diverse. It IS hot as hell. But I kind of like it.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I grew up dirt poor in Texas. I’m a socialist and a woman. So I know this place is deeply flawed. I’m moving to CA soon! But your assessment of TX doesn’t reflect my reality. There‘s been no daily competition. My communities are strong, diverse. It IS hot as hell. But I kind of like it.
Over four decades I’ve seen breathtaking beauty in Big Bend, Pedernales Falls, Caddo Lake. Gorgeous trees in Houston, Austin, Wimberley, countless small towns. I’m sure I’d be dazzled by Maine! The older I get, the more awestruck I feel in nature. I just reject your winner/loser premise.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Over four decades I’ve seen breathtaking beauty in Big Bend, Pedernales Falls, Caddo Lake. Gorgeous trees in Houston, Austin, Wimberley, countless small towns. I’m sure I’d be dazzled by Maine! The older I get, the more awestruck I feel in nature. I just reject your winner/loser premise.
This fixation on naming one state “better” or “more beautiful“ than another seems silly to me when there’s so much beauty in varying topographies. But your writing says 80% of Texans have never seen real trees. Tongue-in-cheek, I’m sure, but you sound unlucky in your travels of Texas. And angry.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This fixation on naming one state “better” or “more beautiful“ than another seems silly to me when there’s so much beauty in varying topographies. But your writing says 80% of Texans have never seen real trees. Tongue-in-cheek, I’m sure, but you sound unlucky in your travels of Texas. And angry.
Many Austin neighborhoods like mine enjoy vast canopies of old-growth trees (hazardous in ice storms!). This is true all over Texas; it’s too big and diverse to be easily defined. This article views the state through a narrow aperture. Good for clicks, bad for learning the more interesting reality.
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Many Austin neighborhoods like mine enjoy vast canopies of old-growth trees (hazardous in ice storms!). This is true all over Texas; it’s too big and diverse to be easily defined. This article views the state through a narrow aperture. Good for clicks, bad for learning the more interesting reality.
Good question. But insurance aside, these studios are making a risky bet on the audience’s appetite for old controversies. They’re too out of touch to notice the tide of entropy has already changed direction. Most execs just don’t grasp the vagaries of culture.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good question. But insurance aside, these studios are making a risky bet on the audience’s appetite for old controversies. They’re too out of touch to notice the tide of entropy has already changed direction. Most execs just don’t grasp the vagaries of culture.
I’m going to try and convince my friends to watch Bugonia, which I find strangely festive like all Lanthimos movies, but I suspect
we’ll end up watching something less deranged.
we’ll end up watching something less deranged.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I’m going to try and convince my friends to watch Bugonia, which I find strangely festive like all Lanthimos movies, but I suspect
we’ll end up watching something less deranged.
we’ll end up watching something less deranged.
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams radically realigned my understanding of the possible in film. Unlike most cinematic depictions of dreams, these hypnotic shorts fully embrace the narrative wisdom of the subconscious. Just take his hand.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams radically realigned my understanding of the possible in film. Unlike most cinematic depictions of dreams, these hypnotic shorts fully embrace the narrative wisdom of the subconscious. Just take his hand.
Are we talking about untying the cleat hitch knot keeping my personal poop knife safely dangling at knee level in my bathroom, driving it to my bro’s house, following the groaning sound to his toilet and passing it like a baton? Or just shouting over Dog Day Afternoon, “Dude just use the knife!”
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Are we talking about untying the cleat hitch knot keeping my personal poop knife safely dangling at knee level in my bathroom, driving it to my bro’s house, following the groaning sound to his toilet and passing it like a baton? Or just shouting over Dog Day Afternoon, “Dude just use the knife!”
