This is very nice. I also have some report cards from high school that were pretty impressive. I’ll post those later, but meanwhile, watch CUPERTINO tonight.

CUPERTINO. Thursday night. Episode 2. A good episode. No Hugging Face, but pretty darn close.

They need to stop stealing plot points from our season. Tell them to create their own plot points.

A quick postscript about CUPERTINO: there was no product placement in it. We scripted in TGIFridays because I worked there in college, and we thought the bumblebee costumes would be funny. And when I was a struggling writer I wrote in a corner booth at IHOPs. Also both businesses said we could use them. So thank you, TGIFridays and IHOP. Both are still good for struggling writers.

Good interview with the Nobel prize winner in Literature. No matter how much I write, or how old I get, or how much I live, I’ll never be as cool as this.

CUPERTINO. Ex-drug-lord, one time priest, now lawyer and occasional superhero, Mike Colter. Who said America has no second acts?

Tomorrow. CUPERTINO. 10 pm on something called a TV.

I like Chick Bongo. This is one of my favorites.

I love this guy’s lip readings. They’re like HAL-level lip reading.

Ella has the makings of a star. I’ve never seen an actress so young have such confidence in her comic skills. Here’s a bit about her character.

CUPERTINO. Fun vignette of Busy’s character, Natalia.

CUPERTINO. I could watch Rene in anything. But she’s perfection in this femme fatale-esque role.

These guys are great. Their Hollywood roundtable is still their best, but this is good too.

Nik Dodani. Really funny actor. Can turn the driest line into a laugh line. Loving him.

CUPERTINO. Fun cast. Check it out this Thursday.

Fair warning; I’m taking over my postings for a while with CUPERTINO content.

A wise section from Pope Leo's speech today to artists: We live in the age of search engines that offer us thousands of instantaneous answers. Yet, no matter how powerful they may be, they merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want. In the age of technology and consumerism, the great danger is not only censorship but also homogenization, and not merely imposed silence but the noise that makes it impossible to listen. Art is a different kind of “search engine.” It does not proceed by indexing but by inquiry. Indeed, its inquiry is a focused attention that is not satisfied with the mere sum of facts, for it never ceases to dig deeper, seeking the thread that unites them. Your art, when it resists homogenization, when it draws our gaze, when it compels us to pause before that which cannot be consumed, is a form of cultural and spiritual regeneration.