Tag: Writing
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Unemployment is Noisy
Hear why I’m so tired and puffy. (And why I keep going on breakfasts and lunches and hikes and sometimes hide out in the library for hours.)
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Just this feeling…
Just this feeling when you part ways with people you care about, people you love. “Get home safe.” “Take care.” “Be good.” Go back out into that world away from me, and come back to me soon and in one piece. Come back with fun stories, and let’s make some fun stories of our own.…
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My Friend Ragan Is Crazy Talented.
I’m proud to pimp the poetry book of one of my dearest friends, Ragan Fox. exile in gayville is everything I love about Ragan. Spot-on hilarious, yank-your-marrow honesty, clever-clever without a hint of “i-mean-if-you-can-understand-but-i’m-sure-you-can’t,” and the next thing you know, you feel like you’ve always known him, and you’re grateful for everything he shared with…
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Just Another Sunday Night (with Cat and Pamie and Pamie’s Mom)
Cat Davis thought she’d be so funny doing a dramatic reading of my first short story. …And then this happened. (Sorry about the hat. I was trying something out. Won’t happen again.)
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Wow, It’s Finally Happening.
This Thursday on ABC, 8:30/7:30c, watch Samantha Who?, episode: “THE DOG,” because I wrote it, which means it’s the only time my name’s in the credits at the front of the episode — the only time my family feels confident in telling people I write on the show. (“Well, otherwise your name goes so fast…
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Making Friday Feel Like Sunday
Someone said to me recently, “If I were in your situation right now, where I was totally unemployed? I would spend my entire morning in my robe, drinking coffee and reading, until it was time to sit outside in the sun, drinking champagne and reading. Perhaps still in my robe. That’s what I’d do every…
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Samantha Who? Returns: March 26th, 8:30/7:30c
Oh, thank God, we are back on the air. But only for like, six weeks. So, tell your friends! Tell everybody. Please. Aren’t you sick of my constant twittering and my sad youtube posts yet? Save me from unemployment. Please put us all back to work with lovely, lovely ratings. I’m embedding the promo, which…
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Saying Your Names
People have written to ask where the Valentine poems were this year. I didn’t do them, for three reasons. One being after ten years of writing them, I thought maybe leaving it at ten and out was a nice round number. Secondly, I’d just completed the manuscript and two straight years of work/strike/work, and was…
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get up (again)
Oh, it’s early. With the amount of people that will be in this living room in thirteen hours, I had to wake up before dawn. Coffee. Writing. Coffee. Writing. Writing. There’s never been a better example of Los Angeles’ hurry-up-and-wait-then-everything-hits-at-once policy than this weekend of script deadlines, out-of-town guests and my first game in the…
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“…usually someone named Josh…”
Rob Long discusses the many ways a tv writer gets paid to be a tv writer, and how (almost) all of them have one thing in common: You have to write.