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Writer / Amateur Baker / My Mom’s Favorite Middle Son™

San Francisco
Joined May 2013
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Some favorite reads from the first half of this year: LILITH - @ericrickstad EVERYBODY KNOWS - @jordan_harper DEVIL IS FINE - @jverchwrites LET HIM GO - Larry Watson OZARK DOGS & BROILER - @elicranor HOLY CITY - @henrywise05 NOVEMBER ROAD - @Lou_Berney
The world, and Twitter, is ugly right now. Let’s have some book love - tell me your book of the year so far or what you’re reading right now, or tag an author you like and make their day!
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Is this thing still on?
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If you love HOOSIERS and DANGEROUS MINDS you’ll love THE BELFAST BLAZERS (based on a true story) in the spirit of my mantra of Peace, Love, and Understanding… Link to script: drive.google.com/file/d/1wdi… amazon.com/Belfast-Blazers-J… @fullcourtpeace @ThumbleNiz @theJasperGrey
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Got the kindergartner a book light for her birthday. She may never sleep again.
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I’m trying to learn to use a sewing machine and have come to the realization that:
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Did I get any writing done this weekend? Nope! But I did make this peacock cake for my kindergartener’s sixth birthday.
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DKT going for less than the price of a gallon of gas over on the amazon amazon.com/Dont-Know-Tough-E…
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Kindergartner hops in the car after school and the first words out of her mouth are: “What’s a BJ?” ME: 😳 Uh…what? HER: A BJ. What is it? ME: Um… HER: Our teacher said that Zoe is a BJ cause she always picks the music. ME: Oh, a *DJ*! (Crisis averted for now!)
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MIDSOMMAR [2019, dir. Ari Aster]
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Big “Graphic Design Is My Passion” energy from this restaurant that uses both Comic Sans *and* Papyrus as fonts on their menu.
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Got to see my buddy @IvanKander for the first time in almost seven (!) years, and while we didn’t get a picture together, he was kind enough to snap this one of me and my youngest.
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Trying to work with UK production companies: “Well, they just got back from Sundance and right now all their attention is on Berlin. We might have a two-day window to send them something before they set their sights on Cannes and then vacation for the entire summer.”
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(And just to be clear: I am envious of the summer-long vacation model!)
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I hope this film will be great, whether that mean holding true to the novel or whether that mean finding its own feet within its own context. Regardless I’m honored something I made up while working two jobs became something relatively bigger. ew.com/movies/robin-wright-a… – at North Carolina, USA
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Spotify: "Here is a playlist for you based on [kids' music for the car], [creepy research music for Project A], Disney Storytellers, [early-2000s emo for workouts], Kids' Dance Hits, [southern folk research music for Project B]..."
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Spent my birthday ropes-coursing, water-sliding, and cake-eating with my favorite people. A very good day indeed.
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Kindergartener wants to start her own club. Not sure how many members she’ll get with some of these ideas.
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In today’s episode of “Don’t Be This Writer”…
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My youth group was set to perform a “Christianized” version of “Lose Yourself” for an Easter service before someone wisely suggested that we not.
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Thanks for the reminder, @GrangerK16
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