Was so excited to return to the Lands Between to talk about the time Fromsoft finally listened to all my letters and phone calls to make Pro Wrestler Beowulf a boss fight. Hollywood Hulk Hoarah Loux rules and I always learn something about stories when I talk to Aysha. Check it out!

What you do with this information is none of my business

Billionaires are like vampires in that a wooden stake through the heart will kill them

Oh, sorry HAL, didn't know you owned every time this human being sheds tears! My mistake. Make sure you bring your piggy bank to the next funeral she attends, I've got a feeling she's holding out on your intellectual property there

We've finally started uploading episodes to Youtube again, and I'm glad we are, but there is something uniquely galling about being given an AI-driven copyright strike saying we unlawfully used someone else's music, and when you check the clip in question the only sound is one of our actors crying

"But it isn't TECHNICALLY--" Dude, using the term "second cousin once removed" in conversation in this house is grounds for busting your balls for the next fifteen years. Don't be a dork

The performative obliviousness around Zohran's "aunt" is especially goofy because white people will call fuckin anybody their cousin. Cousin's son? Cousin. Mom's cousin? Cousin. Guy who lived on your street and just showed up to three consecutive Thanksgivings? You better believe that's a cousin

"This AI actor can pronounce sentences but details like believably delivering those sentences in ways that create the illusion that this fictional character is a living, growing human being that exists aren't there yet" is a very long way of saying "it can't act"

Absolute 100% indicator that a person has never made art before is when they tell you gen AI is "so close" now because "it's just the details that look weird". Buddy, the details are 90% of what we do. Everyone who has ever tried to draw a hand and ended up with a five-pronged tumor is aware of this

Maybe once all these assholes get Raptured the rest of us can get something done for once

I love this show. It's my favorite thing I've ever worked on. I hope it speaks you, and please support us so we can keep making it!

We started planning a little more than two years ago. It's had our sole focus for a full year now. We have about half the season written and a third of it recorded and designed. We are readier than ever. And I'm rebounding constantly between wild excitement and feeling like I'm gonna puke

It's honestly too weird to wrap my head around that we've been working on Thirst in secret for so damn long and some people are going to hear it in six days. Like... We sat on the novel for 5ish years before releasing it, but we knew people liked Juno. This is new and terrifying and so exciting

Thirst is rapidly approaching...

generating a large amount of dull bullshit is a solved problem. we've had that down since the dawn of time. the challenge is making anything at all that doesn't suck shit

If you have any interest in American horror - maybe movies in general - you HAVE to go see Sinners (preferably in a theater, if you can)

The whole thing is amazing, but one sequence in particular is one of the most beautiful and transcendent things I have ever seen on film. Holy shit. Holy shit!

We're SO excited about this. RQ has already been unbelievably supportive as we're developing Thirst, and they're as hands-off on the creative process as it gets. We couldn't be prouder to join the home of some of the best audio horror around as we prep to launch the ridiculous and horrifying Thirst!

Catch me at the town limits where no matter how many times you talk to me all I say is "Welcome to Boston!" (If you're looking for me, I'll be right next to the big sign that says "WELCOME TO BOSTON")

I am trying not to flatten people like this empathetically because in part I think my JOB is to understand how people tick, but this genuinely stumps me. Does loneliness really extend for these people from a sense that they haven't talked about themselves enough lately? That's... Unspeakably grim.

Genuine question: can someone explain what joy is to be found by talking to something that has no interior self? Like... Isn't the point of idle chat to share ourselves with one another? I mean this in the most concrete sense. At this point, why not draw a face on a piece of paper and talk to that?

This is all set now -- we may replace it in the future once we've had time to research and vet another organization, but the text is deleted. (You may need to redownload the episode for the description to change.)

Thank you again, Froggy, and thanks for how you brought this to us!

Yes, this definitely rings different with what we know now! Give me a day to bring it to the team so we can find something to replace it with. Thanks for the heads up.

He doesn't seem all that worried about just saying that directly ad nauseum, which makes the thought of him sitting there screwing up his weird little face trying to come up with something scary and it's just some dude again extremely funny

I don't need the monster to be describable itself, really. But if that's the case you better give me a concrete description of something I can latch onto (the mental/physical sensation of seeing the thing, setting, sound, etc) that makes me feel what you're going for. That's called "mood", bud

Lovecraft's favorite horror shortcut (besides, you know, racism): "the thing in front of me was indescribable" "it was a new color I can't describe" etc

Well, tell me something you CAN describe then, Howie, cuz you've clearly got a cool show going in your head and it'd be nice if we could join you

We can't WAIT for you all to hear it (which is why it's seriously, like, 80% of everything I do with my time for months now)

You can really tell we're in the late-game crunch for Thirst production because the squishy stress toy my therapist recommended I get has had the elasticity completely crushed out of it in... Uh, three days

NYT two months into term four: "This Summer's Hit Fashion? A Boot Stamping On A Human Face -- For Ever"

THREAD: How the threat of martial law exposes the weakness of Trump in this moment

Make no mistake: the Trump regime’s threat to declare martial law, invoke the Insurrection Act, and repeal habeas corpus is nothing short of terrifying. I won’t lie about that fact.

It also exposes great weakness