Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialAdam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 12/09/2026More fun with DC house ads of early 1988 4145
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I’m an anxious-avoidant writer (paralytically terrified of starting), I justify procrastination as “percolating” etc. And yet! whenever I force myself to actually sit down and barf shit out, the thoughts that emerge are totally fresh, previously unknown to my conscious mind, and often pretty good! 25665101
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026JIM HENSON wrote a letter to his Children to be opened after his death. It’s entirely beautiful. 9153191096
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialpriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen... 854222811
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...short-stories.coThere Will Come Soft Rains by Ray BradburyThe voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and… 27983460
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialMelanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925 12766002073
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialSusan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 19/06/2026'The New American Gothic' Criselda Vasquez Oil on canvas 72” x 48" 143122862499
paulfoley.bsky.social @paulfoley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026flic.kr/p/4RDQ48flic.krFaith can be a pickle, son. 000
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialDavid Colarusso @davidcolarusso.com · 25/05/2026Having read through the the Pope's encyclical,¹ I'm struck by how much it complements Ted Chiang's observation that most people's fears about AI are really fears about capitalism. ¹ See thread above. 164
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026it’s so funny that i really genuinely believed writing would get easier over time. that’s hilarious. it’s not even a mean lie somebody told me, it’s just a fake thing i came up with. 49161183
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it. 22257711005
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialRian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Reposting this because I revamped my site and the link changed. Added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I think is more interesting than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! rian-johnson.com/scriptsrian-johnson.comrcjohnso / scripts 361222223
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23/03/2026HOWLING 25084831958
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism 472720302
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialCL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 17/03/2026My life as a writer is mainly just finding endless hacks that trick my brain into writing. Seriously, that damn thing throws up so many obstacles. 70145898
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389429562
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialThe Script Reader @thescriptreader.bsky.social · 12/02/2026If you're still trying to break in, you gotta stick to the rules a lot more to prove that you understand the craft. #scriptsky 072
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialJane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Well, okay, some rules. But a lot of the "rules" they teach young writers seem designed to leach the personality from their scripts. Especially now, with AI looming, it's a good time to let a little quirkiness through. 3133
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialCinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 18/12/2025GOLD! Legendary film editor Terry Rawlings' personal ALIEN script used during post-production. Contains all his notes, annotations, and camera coverage. Download the 238-page scanned PDF ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/alien-40th-a... 17423
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialMatinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities. 691674243
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/09/2025Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the 80s and 90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.newyorker.comTeen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of SelfiesAdrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback. 1530530
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialSciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025This up next I think. I think I've only read one ADF and that was the Star Wars sequel George Lucas asked him to write, A Splinter in the Mind's Eye, over 40 years ago. Let's see how I get on with this one. 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading 3243
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialDrew Morton @damorton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025We’re so back. gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-...gizmodo.comAI Cheating is So Out of Hand In America's Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming BackPen and paper is back, baby. 3459
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialSkot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 18/05/2025“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.” -Frank Capra #BOTD 0317
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 6429824
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialSecret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024 420263115849
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11/09/2024The year 2348: the american pangalactic presidential elections require each candidate to debate a specially trained lunatic to test their mettle. No one knows where the tradition came from. 141728336
Reposted by @paulfoley.bsky.socialJohn August @johnaugust.bsky.social · 10/04/2024Today on Scriptnotes @kenwhite.bsky.social joins us to debunk lawyer scenes in movies and TV. johnaugust.com/2024/lawyer-...johnaugust.comLawyer ScenesJohn and Craig lawyer up with criminal defense attorney Ken White (aka Popehat) to look at legal scenes in movies and TV, and separate the tropes from the truth. How do lawyers actually prepare a case? Will they meet a client in jail? Do they need to gather evidence themselves? And what happens when they 3496
