Eric Grant
@themovieman.bsky.social
Writer, etc. Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist.
MFA Screenwriting Fellow at Chapman (He/Him)
Co-founder, ActionLinesMedia.com
ericgrantwriting.com
MFA Screenwriting Fellow at Chapman (He/Him)
Co-founder, ActionLinesMedia.com
ericgrantwriting.com
I've been saying this for months and I'd want Cole to play Mary's Chaperone during this run
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I've been saying this for months and I'd want Cole to play Mary's Chaperone during this run
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fiancé ran into the bathroom to find me on the floor wheezing with laughter
it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
September 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
fiancé ran into the bathroom to find me on the floor wheezing with laughter
Rosemary's Baby does something very few movies pull off which is to have a character react exactly how the audience wants them to react and STILL have the villains one step ahead. No "You idiot, don't go in the basement!" moment
in your opinion, completely subjective, no metrics and no judgment, what are the best written movies of all time? I don't care if you have never seen a screenplay in your life, just which story itself is the most moving and complete and perfect to you?
August 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Rosemary's Baby does something very few movies pull off which is to have a character react exactly how the audience wants them to react and STILL have the villains one step ahead. No "You idiot, don't go in the basement!" moment
apparently Chuck Mangione loved being a part of King of the Hill so much that he once attended the writers room office olympics and played the opening ceremony theme
July 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
apparently Chuck Mangione loved being a part of King of the Hill so much that he once attended the writers room office olympics and played the opening ceremony theme
showing my fiancé The Osbournes for the first time and it really is an iconic early-2000s time capsule
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
showing my fiancé The Osbournes for the first time and it really is an iconic early-2000s time capsule
incredible that my first Onion issue arrived on the same day and the exact envelope size as my MFA diploma……
do we think @bencollins.bsky.social is hiring?
do we think @bencollins.bsky.social is hiring?
July 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
incredible that my first Onion issue arrived on the same day and the exact envelope size as my MFA diploma……
do we think @bencollins.bsky.social is hiring?
do we think @bencollins.bsky.social is hiring?
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
But don’t worry Ohio State has already announced a mandatory AI class
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
More research on the cognitive deficit of relying only on AI... you can't even remember the information you called up. That's how learning works! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
June 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
But don’t worry Ohio State has already announced a mandatory AI class
Love @emilynussbaum.bsky.social highlighting one of my favorite lesser-known artists.
I discovered Berg when my grandmother told me our family’s beloved gefilte fish recipe came from a cookbook Berg wrote in character as Molly Goldberg. It rules.
I discovered Berg when my grandmother told me our family’s beloved gefilte fish recipe came from a cookbook Berg wrote in character as Molly Goldberg. It rules.
A great comedy history piece from @emilynussbaum.bsky.social on Gertrude Berg; I hadn't considered Berg as a powerful 1930s antidote to Father Coughlin before. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom
Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Love @emilynussbaum.bsky.social highlighting one of my favorite lesser-known artists.
I discovered Berg when my grandmother told me our family’s beloved gefilte fish recipe came from a cookbook Berg wrote in character as Molly Goldberg. It rules.
I discovered Berg when my grandmother told me our family’s beloved gefilte fish recipe came from a cookbook Berg wrote in character as Molly Goldberg. It rules.
Got 7s across the board (with one 8!) for my true crime neo-noir on @theblcklst.bsky.social with the best write-up I’ve ever received
Read it here: blcklst.com/projects/178...
Read it here: blcklst.com/projects/178...
June 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Got 7s across the board (with one 8!) for my true crime neo-noir on @theblcklst.bsky.social with the best write-up I’ve ever received
Read it here: blcklst.com/projects/178...
Read it here: blcklst.com/projects/178...
Hollywood loves multi-hypenates and people who can "do it all" unless you're a writer who can write both genres. That's illegal. Pick one genre. Never cross genres. How could they possibly know where to staff you if you can do both??
May 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hollywood loves multi-hypenates and people who can "do it all" unless you're a writer who can write both genres. That's illegal. Pick one genre. Never cross genres. How could they possibly know where to staff you if you can do both??
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Awareness is our purpose—curiosity and art and discovery. That's the everything. I don't think we should let anyone tell us any different.
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
The Everything & The Submarine
Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.
www.the-reframe.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Awareness is our purpose—curiosity and art and discovery. That's the everything. I don't think we should let anyone tell us any different.
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
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Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs
The same location along PCH, two years apart
May 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The same location along PCH, two years apart
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The mass adoption of AI is rapidly killing critical thought.
Thinking is being outsourced to ChatGPT, bosses are replacing jobs with AI, and we’re heading for a tipping point.
We have to fight back before we lose the cognitive functioning to resist.
www.jphilll.com/p/thinking-i...
Thinking is being outsourced to ChatGPT, bosses are replacing jobs with AI, and we’re heading for a tipping point.
We have to fight back before we lose the cognitive functioning to resist.
www.jphilll.com/p/thinking-i...
Thinking is being outsourced to AI
Big Tech, Oligarchs, and the termination of critical thought
www.jphilll.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The mass adoption of AI is rapidly killing critical thought.
Thinking is being outsourced to ChatGPT, bosses are replacing jobs with AI, and we’re heading for a tipping point.
We have to fight back before we lose the cognitive functioning to resist.
www.jphilll.com/p/thinking-i...
Thinking is being outsourced to ChatGPT, bosses are replacing jobs with AI, and we’re heading for a tipping point.
We have to fight back before we lose the cognitive functioning to resist.
www.jphilll.com/p/thinking-i...
ben having to post this four times in a week is making me really consider watching Hunt for Red October tonight
May 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
ben having to post this four times in a week is making me really consider watching Hunt for Red October tonight
last week an hour before pitching to 10 diff execs and managers I stole one (1) pepperoni off my friend’s slice and it splattered grease all over my new white shirt
god sends the greasiest pizza slices to his whitest tshirts
May 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
last week an hour before pitching to 10 diff execs and managers I stole one (1) pepperoni off my friend’s slice and it splattered grease all over my new white shirt
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gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
As his first act, Pope Leo XIV declares Malort to be an acceptable substitute for wine during communion
May 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As his first act, Pope Leo XIV declares Malort to be an acceptable substitute for wine during communion
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I am honestly in awe of people who teach at colleges and universities. I would not have the stomach, the heart, the patience, or the temper to face what is described here. nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I am honestly in awe of people who teach at colleges and universities. I would not have the stomach, the heart, the patience, or the temper to face what is described here. nymag.com/intelligence...
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
www.bbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
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Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
Seth Rogan’s final line before getting into the ambulance on this week’s #TheStudio… my fiancé turned and said, “I’ve seen you make that face at so many family dinners after a fight.”
April 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Seth Rogan’s final line before getting into the ambulance on this week’s #TheStudio… my fiancé turned and said, “I’ve seen you make that face at so many family dinners after a fight.”
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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death