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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

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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's a restaurant near me where Washington and his men dined the night before crossing the Delaware to fight the Battle of Trenton. I eat there the night before every family fight I see coming.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Philly has many perks but my favorite is buying groceries on the exact spot H.H. Holmes was hanged.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I know the venue has professionals recording this with $20k cameras, but my shaky iPhone 11 footage from Row 137 will definitely be better. So I must film the entire show.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Producer said my 214-page screenplay couldn't possibly come in under 2 hours. So I hired an actor to read the dialogue and prove it.
the motor-mouthed micromachines actor
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A screenplay is a contract between the screenwriter and the reader. So if I get to the end and don't like the conclusion, I immediately sue the writer.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My kid's being treated for accelerated speech patterns, and the doctors goes, "Are there by chance a lot of podcasts being played in the house at 1.75x?"
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Live shot of Moviepass return
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
People say life‘s too short to dwell on your mistakes, but actually there’s tons of time. You should really get dwelling.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Every year I post a list of all the films I’ve watched Steven Soderbergh watching.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The dog be wagging
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What slop are we currently tolerating?
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
look, it's the running of the people with no morality. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
wsj.com
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you were a grifting wannabe dictator, what movie franchise would you leverage state power to reboot?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Pain is temporary. Film is forever. My head hurts.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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?"
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
it’s almost like they should release more children’s movies deadline.com/2025/12/zoot...
deadline.com
‘Zootopia 2’ Stampedes To $158M 5-Day Opening, Still 2nd Best For Thanksgiving Release; $215M+ Promo Campaign Fueled By VW, McDonald’s, More – Monday AM Update
Disney's Zootopia 2 is opening to $140M at the 5-day box office, while 'Wicked's 5-day Thanksgiving stretch is $90M.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. I’m so sorry you’re reading this.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Refreshing
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
At my house we're getting into the microdrama space.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I watch lots of movies on my laptop but i do it in a movie theater
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
he was a thought leader in the thoughtless space
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I can never remember if DEFCON 1 or DEFCON 5 is the bad one. And I work in the situation room .
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.”
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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."
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This fall, the horror film everyone’s been talking about. It’s SLIGHTLY MISPELLED MONSTER.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
And that's how the Toronto Rangers made it into my script.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...
techdirt.com
The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If you had to be jailed, what cinematic universe would you want it done in?
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tony Gilroy says you get paid for like 4 days a year. Think I had one of these recently, but we won't know for a while.
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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
5a) ways peer critique can fuck you up: * you use it as a to-do list, rather than evaluating on your own * cycle of endless revision * people convince you to take the ambitious, interesting parts out of your story because "they're not working" and replace them with conventional parts.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
bring shame back
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
find someone who looks at you the way a billionaire looks at another billionaire embroiled in scandal. www.cbssports.com/nba/news/mar...
cbssports.com
Mark Cuban defends Clippers owner Steve Ballmer amid Kawhi Leonard allegations: 'Steve isn't that dumb'
Cuban pushed back on reports suggesting Leonard received $28 million for a 'no-show job'
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
listening to this as I avoid my outline and walk to the refrigerator for ice cream.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
These days if i read half a magazine i feel like a renaissance man
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
drop kid at school and then resume podcast on whether we’re under marshall law
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Slowburn bodyhorror where the star gradually morphs physically until he’s identical to the film’s director.
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
nuance overrated
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Jack White makes some points
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dead pixels @scottblaszak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I’m a bit of an expert on sports immorality & I just finished the Michigan Football Cheating report and even I'm impressed.
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