Dylan Park-Pettiford
@dylanpark.com
Writer. Director. Habitual Line-Stepper.
TV: Bosch. All Rise. 68 Whiskey.
BOOKS: Roadside. Occasional Magic. How To Tell A Story. Marvel Comics.
REPS: CAA, Rain, Afterhrs.
TV: Bosch. All Rise. 68 Whiskey.
BOOKS: Roadside. Occasional Magic. How To Tell A Story. Marvel Comics.
REPS: CAA, Rain, Afterhrs.
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Dylan Park-Pettiford
@dylanpark.com
· Jan 16
Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home
Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home [Park-Pettiford, Dylan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home
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This book is a love letter to my hometown, a memorial for my brother, a treatise for a better America, and a lot of things in between.
The roads I've taken have had tragic endings, but some have led to auspicious new beginnings, and I wouldn’t be here with out you.
www.amazon.com/Roadside-Jou...
The roads I've taken have had tragic endings, but some have led to auspicious new beginnings, and I wouldn’t be here with out you.
www.amazon.com/Roadside-Jou...
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Your daily reminder that protesting a tyrannical government and participating in acts of civil disobedience are the most American things you can do.
October 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your daily reminder that protesting a tyrannical government and participating in acts of civil disobedience are the most American things you can do.
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Several Arizona writers—including ASU alum @dylanpark.com and professor @mdbell79.bsky.social—sound off about how the Valley of the Sun helps inspire & support their work. 🏜️
Get the scoop in PHOENIX magazine: ow.ly/CAvA50WPTZq #ASUHumanities
Get the scoop in PHOENIX magazine: ow.ly/CAvA50WPTZq #ASUHumanities
Media News: Sonoran Stories
For more than 50 years, PHOENIX magazine's experienced writers, editors, and designers have captured all sides of the Valley with award-winning and insightful writing, and groundbreaking reporting and...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Several Arizona writers—including ASU alum @dylanpark.com and professor @mdbell79.bsky.social—sound off about how the Valley of the Sun helps inspire & support their work. 🏜️
Get the scoop in PHOENIX magazine: ow.ly/CAvA50WPTZq #ASUHumanities
Get the scoop in PHOENIX magazine: ow.ly/CAvA50WPTZq #ASUHumanities
Hey, so has anybody else been thinking about 2028? Specifically the part where Trump refuses to leave office and the only way to remove him is through a military coup bringing us perilously close to a second civil war? Or is that just me?
August 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hey, so has anybody else been thinking about 2028? Specifically the part where Trump refuses to leave office and the only way to remove him is through a military coup bringing us perilously close to a second civil war? Or is that just me?
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ASU film alum & TV screenwriter @dylanpark.com spoke w/ @samdingman.bsky.social @kjzz.org about his memoir "Roadside" which details his upbringing, service in the Iraq War & journey home again (BTW we're hosting him at ASU Book Group this fall—stay tuned).
Listen: ow.ly/HJFl50Wwqkj #ASUHumanities
Listen: ow.ly/HJFl50Wwqkj #ASUHumanities
After Pat Tillman inspired this writer to enlist, he discovered his own family legacy
In his new memoir, “Roadside,” Iraq veteran Dylan Park-Pettiford tells the unlikely story of his decision to enlist in the military. Or at least, he thought it was an unlikely story.
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July 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ASU film alum & TV screenwriter @dylanpark.com spoke w/ @samdingman.bsky.social @kjzz.org about his memoir "Roadside" which details his upbringing, service in the Iraq War & journey home again (BTW we're hosting him at ASU Book Group this fall—stay tuned).
Listen: ow.ly/HJFl50Wwqkj #ASUHumanities
Listen: ow.ly/HJFl50Wwqkj #ASUHumanities
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On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Dylan Park-Pettiford -- TV writer, combat veteran and author of the memoir Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...
July 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Dylan Park-Pettiford -- TV writer, combat veteran and author of the memoir Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...
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I stumbled upon @angryasianman.bsky.social + @originalsp.in when COVID hit over here and after the Atlanta spa shooting while I was searching for a better sense of community online as an Asian American.
So I squealed w/glee when I suddenly saw a friendly face pop up on the podcast. 🖤 @dylanpark.com
So I squealed w/glee when I suddenly saw a friendly face pop up on the podcast. 🖤 @dylanpark.com
On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Dylan Park-Pettiford -- TV writer, combat veteran and author of the memoir Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...
July 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I stumbled upon @angryasianman.bsky.social + @originalsp.in when COVID hit over here and after the Atlanta spa shooting while I was searching for a better sense of community online as an Asian American.
So I squealed w/glee when I suddenly saw a friendly face pop up on the podcast. 🖤 @dylanpark.com
So I squealed w/glee when I suddenly saw a friendly face pop up on the podcast. 🖤 @dylanpark.com
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Man, @dylanpark.com is a trip to talk to, and his book ROADSIDE is straight fire — as I said, my big complaint is that there isn’t more of it! Check out our convo here!
On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Dylan Park-Pettiford -- TV writer, combat veteran and author of the memoir Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...
July 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Man, @dylanpark.com is a trip to talk to, and his book ROADSIDE is straight fire — as I said, my big complaint is that there isn’t more of it! Check out our convo here!
lol that’s the stylistic choice of the editor. And I think he chose to do it that way because that’s how the creators of Alien stylized it.
June 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
lol that’s the stylistic choice of the editor. And I think he chose to do it that way because that’s how the creators of Alien stylized it.
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Took a few well-deserved days off from my corporate job and spent yesterday doing nothing but lazing in the blazing Phoenix sun by a pool with a cocktail and @dylanpark.com’s book… which I started and already finished.
As I told him: I chuckled, I laughed, and then I cried. 10/10 recommend.
As I told him: I chuckled, I laughed, and then I cried. 10/10 recommend.
June 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Took a few well-deserved days off from my corporate job and spent yesterday doing nothing but lazing in the blazing Phoenix sun by a pool with a cocktail and @dylanpark.com’s book… which I started and already finished.
As I told him: I chuckled, I laughed, and then I cried. 10/10 recommend.
As I told him: I chuckled, I laughed, and then I cried. 10/10 recommend.
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Perfect day across the river from St Paul
June 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Perfect day across the river from St Paul
“Stunning power and poetry.” — Rick Cleveland, Emmy award-winning writer, ‘The West Wing’
“A funny, tortured, and heartbreaking journey.” — Elliot Ackerman, award-winning author
“Vulgar. I’ve counted 6 dick jokes. Why do you curse so much? Are you trying to embarrass me?” — mom
“A funny, tortured, and heartbreaking journey.” — Elliot Ackerman, award-winning author
“Vulgar. I’ve counted 6 dick jokes. Why do you curse so much? Are you trying to embarrass me?” — mom
May 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Stunning power and poetry.” — Rick Cleveland, Emmy award-winning writer, ‘The West Wing’
“A funny, tortured, and heartbreaking journey.” — Elliot Ackerman, award-winning author
“Vulgar. I’ve counted 6 dick jokes. Why do you curse so much? Are you trying to embarrass me?” — mom
“A funny, tortured, and heartbreaking journey.” — Elliot Ackerman, award-winning author
“Vulgar. I’ve counted 6 dick jokes. Why do you curse so much? Are you trying to embarrass me?” — mom
My mom is staying with me for the next week and a half. This morning I woke up to her knocking on my door. “So, I have some thoughts about your book...”
May 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My mom is staying with me for the next week and a half. This morning I woke up to her knocking on my door. “So, I have some thoughts about your book...”
Blocked and reported for hate speech.
May 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Blocked and reported for hate speech.
It’s incredible what human beings are capable of, yet we’ve spent a majority of our history killing each other over arbitrary lines on maps, imaginary deities, shiny rocks buried in the ground, and skin pigmentation.
End the wars. All of them.
End the wars. All of them.
May 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It’s incredible what human beings are capable of, yet we’ve spent a majority of our history killing each other over arbitrary lines on maps, imaginary deities, shiny rocks buried in the ground, and skin pigmentation.
End the wars. All of them.
End the wars. All of them.
Hey friends, if you haven’t snagged my book and still want to, do me a favor and support our friends at my local bookshop, Village Well Books & Coffee. You can grab a copy in store or online at villagewell.com.
Village Well
Village Well Books & Coffee is a bookstore-café in Culver City, California.
villagewell.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hey friends, if you haven’t snagged my book and still want to, do me a favor and support our friends at my local bookshop, Village Well Books & Coffee. You can grab a copy in store or online at villagewell.com.
Bay Area friends and family, I’m coming home.
May 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Bay Area friends and family, I’m coming home.
My dead friend’s father is promoting my book to all his MAGA buddies like it’s gonna be some star-spangled red, white, and blue American war machine propaganda.
He’s probably gonna hate the part where I said the war in Iraq was illegal and his son died for no reason.
He’s probably gonna hate the part where I said the war in Iraq was illegal and his son died for no reason.
May 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My dead friend’s father is promoting my book to all his MAGA buddies like it’s gonna be some star-spangled red, white, and blue American war machine propaganda.
He’s probably gonna hate the part where I said the war in Iraq was illegal and his son died for no reason.
He’s probably gonna hate the part where I said the war in Iraq was illegal and his son died for no reason.
Hell yeah
Just arrived three weeks earlier than expected!
My wife got the box and asked if I ordered a book and I said no. Then I asked who the author was and I yelled, Fuck Yeah I have something to read now!
My wife got the box and asked if I ordered a book and I said no. Then I asked who the author was and I yelled, Fuck Yeah I have something to read now!
May 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hell yeah
❤️❤️❤️
Just arrived today! Been looking forward to this! 👏👏 @dylanpark.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
❤️❤️❤️
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If you're in LA, it'd be worth catching this
May 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you're in LA, it'd be worth catching this
LA, can’t wait to see your faces.
May 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
LA, can’t wait to see your faces.
Unc: You know that feeling when you’re sound asleep and the garbage truck coming down your street wakes you up then you remember you haven’t taken the trash out?
Me: The worst.
Unc: That’s what Vietnam felt like 24/7/365. Except if you didn’t get the trash to the curb on time men died.
Me: …
Me: The worst.
Unc: That’s what Vietnam felt like 24/7/365. Except if you didn’t get the trash to the curb on time men died.
Me: …
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Unc: You know that feeling when you’re sound asleep and the garbage truck coming down your street wakes you up then you remember you haven’t taken the trash out?
Me: The worst.
Unc: That’s what Vietnam felt like 24/7/365. Except if you didn’t get the trash to the curb on time men died.
Me: …
Me: The worst.
Unc: That’s what Vietnam felt like 24/7/365. Except if you didn’t get the trash to the curb on time men died.
Me: …
My barber’s been on vacation in Hawaii for weeks and I’m unkempt, disheveled, lost.
April 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My barber’s been on vacation in Hawaii for weeks and I’m unkempt, disheveled, lost.