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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, friends!

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/12/2025

At this comic shop in Santa Barbara I appreciated the real spiderwebs getting in on the theming.

A hanging sign that says “Metro Entertainment Comics Games Toys” with a Spider-Man figure and real spiderwebs backlit by the sun.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/11/2025

What a nice reminder. Thanks @david-william4.bsky.social! & here I was going through the day with zero awareness that today’s the anniversary of A Christmas Story Christmas! To commemorate, here’s a photo from right before filming the first shot and another of the last shot before we wrapped.

Director Clay Kaytis taking selfie on the exterior “Chicago” set of A Christmas Story Christmas on the Nu Boyana backlot in Sophia, Bulgaria.

Looking over the shoulder of Director Clay Kaytis at Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) at the typewriter. This was the last shot filmed before wrapping A Christmas Story Christmas.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 10/11/2025

That 🎄🎅🏻 mood is right around the corner!

Dates for when A Christmas Story Christmas airs on TBS and TNT. TNT: December 19 6:45pm ET/3:45pm PT. TBS: December 14 12:30pm & 1am ET/PT, December 25 8pm & 12:45am ET/PT

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 10/11/2025

Glad to see the Super S is still going strong

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 25/10/2025

@lightboxexpo.com was huge, packed full of enthusiastic artists, and exciting as always. @bobbychiu.bsky.social has created something special to look forward to every year. Here’s our panel on Friday, you can’t see the screaming, cheering audience, but they were there, trust me.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/10/2025

I’ll be at Lighbox Expo this Friday, speaking on a panel at 3:30 - Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films - with my Angry Birds directing partner Fergal Reilly @f3rgal.bsky.social. Hope to see some familiar and new faces there!

Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films

Civic Auditorium | Maureen Fan, FERGAL REILLY, Patrick Osborne, Clay Kaytis, Jony Chandra, Katherine MacDonald
Recent animated game adaptations have crushed it with fans like Arcane or at the box office with Sonic. Making them is hard though: these games have rabid existing fanbases much larger than comics, the games are still ongoing, some have thin story, and Hollywood + games have had a storied history with many previously failed film adaptations. Hear from the creatives, who adapt these beloved IP into animation, share how they do it well.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 29/09/2025

I sat in one this weekend!

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 11/09/2025

What a deal! Can’t believe no one’s taken it. 🤮

A raggedy-ass used office chair left at the curb for a week with a piece of tape on it that says, “FREE!”

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/07/2025

The ONLY upcoming emoji that matters:

Image of upcoming Bigfoot emoji, strangely he’s posed in the opposite direction of the famous film frame.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 07/07/2025

If you fall off your roof with no shoes on and your wife doesn’t see or hear you, does it count?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 02/07/2025

How the West Was Won (1962) #filmlocations at Convict Lake, CA

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 20/06/2025

I made this video last year, just over a week after my dad passed, where I talked about how it all helped me to re-prioritize my life. At the time I had posted it on IG, but I dumped Meta a while ago.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 19/06/2025

My dad passed away one year ago on June, 19. A year goes so fast. I miss him and still think about calling him all the time to tell him about what happened during my day.

My dad and me in his convertible 1960 Austin-Healey.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/06/2025

There’s this stone in my bathroom floor, right in front of the toilet and I can’t help but see a face every time I take a sit (ahem). I’m getting Johnny from Karate Kid on Halloween vibes. Or maybe the Misfits? Who does this look like to you?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/06/2025

I watch tons of different stuff but I love how when I fall asleep watching YouTube on tv, it knows to start playing seven episodes of Norm Abram’s New Yankee Workshop back to back. Peak algorithm. #chefskiss

A screenshot of YouTube showing four played episodes of New Yankee Workshop starring Norm Abram.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 10/06/2025

I spent almost three weeks and $1500 in new tools and raw walnut lumber to make my equivalent of an Ikea desktop 😂 BUT IT’S THE FIRST THING I’VE EVER MADE AND IM SO FUCKING STOKED!!!! She’s beautiful.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 03/06/2025

It brings me continual joy that Zelenskyy voiced Red in the Ukrainian version of The Angry Birds Movie. Feels appropriate

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 22/05/2025

If you’re in L.A., I definitely recommend you give the @skirball.bsky.social a visit for the Jack Kirby exhibition (free on Thursdays!). If you’re not totally versed in Kirby (like me) it’s the perfect-sized show to get your feet wet, and get inspired.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/05/2025

I baked my first cake all from scratch and I’m sorry to say, it wasn’t very good. I’m sensing a pattern: my first try at baking most things is pretty miserable. You win some, you lose some. In case you’re wondering, not much flavor, dry and dense, and the buttercream frosting tasted generic

A double-layer yellow cake with chocolate frosting on a platter that is printed with blue flowers. A slice of cake has been removed. You can’t tell by the photo but the cake was dry and not very tasty.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 04/05/2025

Actually, he’s 100% correct about one thing 👇

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 26/04/2025

The sun finally made an appearance.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 26/04/2025

“Come out to the Seal Beach Car Show, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.” BTW, we affectionately call those “car condoms.”

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 14/04/2025

Positive side-effect of food poisoning: I had time to watch The Beatles: Get Back. Fascinating look into the creative process of pressure + genius. In one month they created some of the greatest songs ever. I was relieved to find there was no “bad guy,” just four guys trying to keep it together.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 13/04/2025

Saw The Eagles at Sphere in Vegas on Friday night. Absolutely incredible experience. And within 30 minutes of leaving, absolutely incredible food poisoning kicked in (not Sphere related). Made it home yesterday but I’ll be in bed all day wishing for a 🎵 “peaceful easy feeling” 🎵

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/03/2025

Today is my Dad’s first birthday without him. Miss that guy.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 12/03/2025

The sugar dust at the bottom of the Frosted Mini Wheats box – don’t knock it ‘til you try it.

A bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats cereal with a decadent pile of sugar dust from the bottom of the box resting on top in anticipation of getting eaten.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 12/03/2025

“Alms for the poor.” - this little rag tied around a snow stake.

A rag tied around a snow stake that looks like a little beggar, saying, “Alms for the poor” with his cupped hands extended

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 11/03/2025

Today I made a bunch of loose tenons out of scrap walnut. Not perfect but they’ll work. That clickity-clack they make is so satisfying.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 11/03/2025

Sometimes things ain’t so bad.

National Forest boundary sign in front of of Carson Peak

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 23/02/2025

I tapped my first hole today. Gotta admit, it was pretty thrilling.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/02/2025

Post your most popular art from Twitter. Cats aren’t mine but the edit is

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/02/2025

What is up with Apple Music taking the three best tracks on the Drive Soundtrack offline?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 06/02/2025

I assumed it would be the first lesson but Duolingo saved this gem for day 656

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 02/02/2025

Happy Groundhog Day, and in case you were unaware, Groundhog Day was Michael Shannon’s first theatrical feature credit as “Fred” at the age of 19.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 02/02/2025

I told Siri to “play some music” and damn, she did not disappoint. BTW, if you haven’t listened to the almost 10 minute “Finale (William Tell Overture)” by Zimmer you gotta do it at least once in your life. It is… unique.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 20/01/2025

The 4th book I started reading in 2025 is the first one on the recommended reading lists from The Well-Educated Mind: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605), translated by Tobias Smollett (1755). 140/942 pages in & it’s surprisingly funny! Didn’t know much about it and I’m enjoying it. #booksky

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/01/2025

What’s a book that you HAD to own, couldn’t wait to buy, and STILL haven’t read/opened? I’ll go first:

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/01/2025

Funny you’d mention Riley - I was going through books yesterday and saw this one. The resemblance is uncanny

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 13/01/2025

Just deleted all Meta accounts and apps. Actually… felt good. Extra good as I got a notification from Bluesky in the middle there. Bye, Felicia

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 04/01/2025

Current reading: The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. About how to actually get educated by the things you read (and a bit of WHAT to read). And The Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts & O.A. Westad. I’m just getting to the appearance Homo Sapiens!

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 04/01/2025

My first book of 2025: The Lost Cement Mine by James W.A. Wright. Collection of Wright’s newspaper articles on the legend of a found, then lost “ledge of reddish cement spangled with flakes of purest gold” in the area of Mammoth Lakes, CA. They say whoever finds it will find death! Whos with me??

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