Very scary to ask for something, even scarier to get what you asked for.

'We've lost our way': Clifton's operator gives up on downtown Los Angeles The proprietor of Los Angeles' legendary Clifton's has given up on reopening the shuttered venue.

I’m bummed Clifton’s is closing but I did notice that the first hour you spend there is great and then afterwards you realize you’re in Hell and need to escape. Clifton’s extracted a heavy toll from all those who walked through it.

I’m approaching middle age which means, depending on the day, I either think to myself, “Am I so out of ouch?” or “Thank God I’m so out of touch.”

We have new people on our show this season and it’s always funny when they ask us vets, “But wait, doesn’t ____ contradict _____?” and we just smile and say, “Yep!” The fun of working on a dinosaur show.

The context of this post will become clear a year from now. Stay tuned!

That Alex Hirsch video making fun of Standards and Practices was too kind to them honestly.

We just screened the animatic for the third episode I AD’d. Rewarding myself by venturing out to Chinatown for a screening of an Ida Lupino movie, THE BIGAMIST. Hollywood!

Also managed to score an extremely reasonable round trip to NYC. Folks,

No wait in security at SeaTac. Very quiet here tonight. Maybe we should keep the Straight of Hormuz closed until after my trip to Spain next month

Happy Easter

For context, I’m visiting family this weekend, I did not fly from LA specifically to visit this store but it would be funnier if I did

Visited the Rick Steves store in Edmonds, WA to prep for my Spain trip and sure enough Rick was there.

Taking my parents to THE DRAMA as any good son must.

"You may have a C button, but you still can't 'C' the obvious. It's de press-ing that you haven't switched it up by now. The true joy of gaming is in the pressing, of the buttons, to make Mario do a jump. I don't need others to C me sticking it to Bowser, this is a soliturtle journey.."

Almost nobody here at the Burbank airport tonight. Maybe the oil crisis isn’t so bad.

Oh thank god [matter I cannot discuss publicly]

Sorry but Belle took the beast’s name when they got married. Her name is Belle Beast and she can no longer vote.

You know work has let up a little bit when I start drawing for fun again

Liked HOPPERS a lot but it would be much funnier for the discourse if the animals were trying to stop low-income housing from being built over their pond.

Genuinely heartwarming that something so staggeringly misconceived can still be released by a major studio and not be noted into mere mediocrity. There’s hope for Hollywood yet.

I’m spending two weeks in Spain this May, starting off in Madrid, which means I can finally live my dream of being in a real life Pedro Almodovár movie. Ideally one of the comedies.

How busy have I been this past month? Only just now am I on the way to see THE BRIDE.

ART OF AMERICAN DAD when?

One Battle After Another gets best picture and the orchestra plays Steely Dan. We all win.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: Finally a real movie wins best picture

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The Academy rightfully acknowleding the true star of 2025 cinema.

I’m boarding a little dance in my newest show and it’s specific enough that I actually do have to time it audio, which we almost never do on AD. The SBP editing tools are infuriatingly limited but alas it is extremely satisfying to see my animation come to life in real-time. That’s how they get ya

I helped out the retakes department on this episode so every time you see a TV screen in Act 3 just know it was me, carefully resizing a PNG graphic in perspective to replace another graphic.

A SINNERS over performance would be exciting if for no other reason that that very few movies that have homaged TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT have done so well in award season.

Oscar discourse baby! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is my pick for best picture. It’s funny, thrilling, and moving in all the ways we want movies to be; it’s a genuinely exhilarating experience.