Buddhist, Christian Gnostic, Born in Gotham, Mountain raised. U Pitt educated (Criminal Psych & English literature). Uber, Screenwriter, Engineer in training.
The Mind of A MAD man
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Brandon Sanderson is writing his own Mistborn script. First draft done in July... second draft only half done now. Guy writes novels like breathing and the rewrite still takes longer. Writing is rewriting. The only way around is through.
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"Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements." The Buddha and the Gnostics agree on this... the light was never lost. Just covered. Clear the dust. (Anguttara Nikaya 1.49)
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Eight different starting QBs since Kirk tore his Achilles in 2023... and the answer was the guy who already knew the playbook. Oldest plot there is. Odysseus comes home. #Skol
"Ultimately in Kirk we saw an opportunity to acquire an accomplished quarterback and improve the Minnesota Vikings" - GM Nolan Teasley on acquiring QB Kirk Cousins
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Best script note there is... "Is there an audience for this movie?" Most bad movies aren't bad writing. They're a room full of people nobody asked who it's for. Ask it on page one, not after the trailer drops.
Scarlett Johansson says some studio movie offers she's gotten have been so bad that she's had no choice but to respond: "It seems irresponsible to make this."
“Am I making something that other people want to see? Is there an audience for this movie? I’m not making a movie just for me. “Sometimes I get studio projects that I have to say, ‘I don’t think you should make this. I don’t know who you’re making this for. It seems irresponsible to make this.’” (via Los Angeles Times)
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40 more on-target throws a season... that's the difference between a defense carrying u and a team that actually wins in January. Kirk isn't flashy. He's accurate. Sometimes the boring answer is the right one. #Skol
Looked this up...
The Vikings have a 13.7% off-target throw rate since the beginning of 2025, which is the highest of any NFL team.
In 2022 & '23 with Kirk Cousins, the Vikings had an 8.3% off-target throw rate.
That's about 40 more on-target throws over a season. Critical.
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Publius (Oliver B. Johnson III) retweeted
BREAKING: Raiders trading QB Kirk Cousins to the Vikings for a 2027 third-round pick. (via @adamschefter, @rapsheet, @mikegarafolo)
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Bartender. Uber driver. Screenwriter. J.D. in training. ASU Online in January. People ask when I sleep... I tell em the story doesn't care. The only way around is through.
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"That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves." Same rule for writers. The story inside you that you never write... that's the one that eats you alive. (Gospel of Thomas 70)
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Cregger went from sketch comedy to Barbarian to a $400M Resident Evil. Studios pay for the IP... audiences pay for the voice. Write the weird thing. It's the only way in.
Director Zach Cregger‘s “Resident Evil” has notched a notable box office milestone, climbing to $400 million in global ticket sales.
His reboot of the ’90s zombie video game has earned $157.399 million in North America and $242.6 million overseas for a worldwide haul of exactly $400 million. It’s now the highest-grossing installment in the 24-year-old horror franchise, toppling 2016’s “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” with $312 million globally.
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First loss is the end of act one... every good story needs the hero to get punched in the mouth. 6-1. Bills come to U.S. Bank next Monday night. Now we find out who these guys really are. #Skol
"I know the guys in that locker room are built the right way and the standard that we have, it will show" - QB Kyler Murray
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4th straight offseason saying "we're gonna run the ball"... that's not a plan, that's a New Year's resolution. Gibbs went for 150+ on us Sunday. Fix the ground game or 6-1 is just a great first act. #Skol
The Vikings' offense has many issues, but the run game remains problematic.
The team talked about prioritizing it for the 4th straight offseason. Tons of changes over time: RBs, iOL, TE, OL coach, etc.
Right now, they rank 31st in rushing success rate and 27th in EPA/play.
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Question I ask every draft: is this a film, or just a series of moments? Moments are easy. The stuff connecting them is the whole craft.
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6-0, the only unbeaten team left, and we're still the underdog at Ford Field. Good. Underdogs get the better third act. 1 PM. #Skol
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An adaptation isn't the book. The writer decides what he loved in the original and cuts everything else. That's not betrayal... that's the job.
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The old meaning of "true" was aim. His aim was true. The sword was true. Good fiction works the same way... it doesn't have to be factual. It has to hit what it's aiming at.
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