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Professor of Tetrapyloctomy
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I write. I research and write. I make stuff up and write.

ESOL/ELL/MLL teacher/researcher/deep sigher
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#StuntScript

Anyone ever read "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco and think, The Name of the Rose was a great movie! Why isn't Foucault's Pendulum a movie?

Well, because the book is too damn long to be a movie.

So I adapted it into a four-episode mini-series.
The Kabbalah tree of life. OVER BLACK: QUOTE Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom. -Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, De occulta philosophia, 3, 65 OVER BLACK: QUOTE O.K., do you want to play this game? You are my friend, and we go. Otherwise, too bad for me or for you. -Umberto Eco, US News & World Report, November 11, 1989 IMAGE: THE TEN SEFIROT An image of the ten Sefirot of the Cabbalah "Tree of Life" We zoom into the hidden Sefirot, DA'AT and see: SERIES OF SHOTS: TEN SCENES, 1/2 SECOND EACH --Fouccoult's Pendulum swings in the Grand Hall of the Museè des Arts et Metiers, Paris. --A TRS-80 computer prints out the names of god. --Casaubon, Jacopo, and Diotavelli drink and laugh in Pilede's bar. --Amparo dances wildly at the Voudon ceremony. --The front cover of the book "THE WORLD OF METALS". --Lorenza plays pinball, bumps the table with her pelvis. --Diotavelli lies dying in a hospital bed. --Casaubon runs madly through the streets of Paris. --Jacopo as a young child blows a trumpet in a cemetery. --The beautiful, rolling hills of [BEEP] at sunset. BLACK OVER BLACK: QUOTE Superstition brings bad luck. -Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8 IMAGE: THE TEN SEPHAROT We zoom out of DA'AT and into the top Sefirot, KETER to enter into: INT. GRAND HALL MUSEE DES ARTS ET METIERS, PARIS - EVENING CHYRON: "1984" It is closing time at the museum. A bored GUARD politely ushers guests out past a huge steel ball, suspended by a hook fifty meters above the floor in the grand arched ceiling of the Conservatoire. The heavy pendulum sweeps with deadly WHOOSH, perpetually bisecting a numbered circle inlayed on the floor. A BOYFRIEND and GIRLFRIEND walk past. Girlfriend pauses. GIRLFRIEND It's Foucault's Pendulum! BOYFRIEND What does it do? GIRLFRIEND It proves that…
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
Still doodling instead of writing.
#notwritesky #notscriptsky #doodle #procrastinationnation
A three-eyed frog with a spear and rainbow shield. Not sure what they are doing with the weapons of war, but they look ready to fight something.
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Help settle an argument:

If I use IDENTICAL TEABAGS and put one in a large mug and one in a small cup and fill each with water, which cup has more "tea" in it?

Different amounts of WATER, sure, but I argue that the amount of "tea" (the leaves) is the same.

Others disagree.
#WhatIsTea #science
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
Just saying.

#Ironheart #WhatWeDoInTheShadows #Nandor #Mephisto #SeperatedAtBirth
Sacha Baron Cohen as Mephisto in "Ironheart" Nandor the Implacable from "What we do in the Shadows"
July 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Feeling some Utah Phillips right about now.

"A Robin Hood bandit gives away privately what he steals publicly and a philanthropist...well, you figure it out."

#Workersoftheworld #HoboNation #ThereNeedsToBeAMovieAboutThisGuy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDb...
Utah Phillips - This Land Is Not Our Land
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July 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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POSEIDON'S GATE

After inheriting their family's beachfront amusement park, Hunter and Cellar Kellington have four months to make it profitable or see their family legacy demolished for a condo development.

TED LASSO x THE GOOD PLACE

#ScreenPit #comedySeries
June 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Mermania!
A broke office worker, desperate for a promotion, attends a work-sponsored booze cruise to schmooze the boss, but instead of a VP position, she must fight against getting permanently downsized (ripped apart) by a rampaging merman unleashed by the company.
#Screenpit #HoCo #Fea #Cfin #SeRe
June 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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HOME FOR MONSTERS

Humans didn't know magic even existed until it ended. Now the creatures of myth and nightmare must learn to survive in our world. Enemies forced to live together.

Feature film prequel; half-hour series

#screenpit #scriptsky #co #su #DrDy #SeRe
A dragon in a dirty alley eating out of a garbage can. Shitty AI slop, but I just couldn't draw anything for this. From one of the half-hour comedy episodes: EXT. HOME FOR MONSTERS - DAY MAIL CARRIER approaches the mail box outside the Home for Monsters and hesitates. Mail Carrier looks at the bush next to the mail box. MAIL CARRIER Is that you? Hello? Do you want your mail? Mail Carrier wedges the mail into the branches of the bush and turns to walk off. With a RUSTLE, the bush on the other side of the mail box unfolds, revealing itself to be WIND, a sentient plant-person. Mail Carrier SHRIEKS in fear. WIND Why did you give the mail to Albert? MAIL CARRIER (shakily) Albert? WIND Do you think we all look the same? MAIL CARRIER (flustered) What? No! I just...just thought that, I mean- Wind LAUGHS. WIND I am joking. That’s just a bush. Wind takes the mail out of the bush and walks up the path and into the Home for Monsters, still laughing. Mail Carrier looks at the bush. MAIL CARRIER Could be an Albert. How the hell can anyone tell these days? Mail carrier walks off MUTTERING.
June 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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KHALID AND THE GREAT BEYOND

When an atheistic physicist dies, he and the Goddess of Safe Returns must determine why the dead are going to the wrong afterlives and prevent the destruction of reality.

#ScreenPit #Fea #Co #PG13 #SeRe #Cov #ISA #40up
June 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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HERE SHE COMES

An introverted South Asian woman having the worst sex of her life falls ass-backwards into the adult toy biz much to the chagrin of her eccentric but traditional Indian family.

2 x TV Pilot Winner, Runner Up

#ScreenPit #Scriptsky #Co #Pi #div
Image of a brown south Asian woman, smiling coyly and holding a vibrator with an angry mother figure in the background, and her grinning stupid brother in the foreground. On the side are the accolades for the pilot HERE SHE COMES by Jasmine Aziz and Dan McNeil.
June 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES
An American man building his dream home and preparing for an inevitable attack by the Japanese, is thrown for a loop when the U.S. Army shoots the heck out of a bright orange object in the sky, destroying his new home. #ScreenPit #SFi #Fea #Cov #ISA
June 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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COMPLEX KILLER

Escaping an abusive marriage has a woman moving to an apartment complex with live/work/play options & tight security but missing women & disinterested cops have her playing detective despite her fear it may be her ex.
#screenpit #th #fea
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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SATAN ❤️ CTHULHU!

What happens when the mother of the Antichrist meets the Son of Cthulhu? Love of course! And the end of the world, but whose apocalypse is it going to be? Kisses and curses abound in "Satan Loves Cthulhu"!

feature film

#scriptsky #screenpit #Ro #Su #HoCo #SeRe
What happens when the mother of the Antichrist meets the Son of Cthulhu? Love of course! And the end of the world, but whose apocalypse is it going to be? Kisses and curses abound in "Satan Loves Cthulhu"! The poster is a hand-drawn shitty pic of Satan and Cthulhu staring at each other over the silhouette of our two lovers. Here is the first bit of the script: EXT. ROCKY OCEAN CLIFFS - BLACKEST NIGHT Lit by stochastic lightening, an OLD CRONE (f, 100) mutters GUTTURAL SYLLABLES over the POUNDING RAIN as she trudges up the rocky path to the top of a promontory overlooking the storm-whipped ocean. OLD CRONE Ain fthagan Cthulhu sep mornicus in et ackman alctatan doa! Ain Cthullulu! Ain Yog Shoggoth! Give me your child! Old Crone spreads her arms and the waves CRASH higher and higher until one wave POUNDS over the cliff, washing her away. Lightning CRACKS into the waves. Thunder ROLLS over the ocean ROAR. Another wave WHOOSHES over the cliffs, and Old Crone stands where she was before, sodden and dripping, but unharmed. OLD CRONE Thank you old ones and bless us with your madness! Give us the old gods to once again wake Azathoth! Bring me the spear of Lobon! Oukranos! Zo-Kalar! Tamash! The SHOUTS of Old Crone are drowned out by the violent SMASH of the waves and the BOOM of thunder. SUPER: “30 YEARS LATER” EXT. GOTHIC CHURCH - MIDNIGHT A neo-Gothic stone church with no roof, in severe disrepair, stands forlorn in a field of weeds under the full moon. In the peeling paint on a sign by the entrance the words “ST. LAWRENCE” are faintly seen. EXT. DRIVEWAY - SAME An old, dusty and road-worn black van RUMBLES down the driveway, the engine COUGHS and SPLUTTERS. INSERT - REAR VIEW MIRROR OF VAN A cartoon devil air freshener with the words “STINKY LITTLE DEVIL” hangs from the rear-view mirror. BACK IN THE DRIVEWAY The van CRUNCHES to a halt in front of the dark building. REVEREND JANE HEX (f, 30), steps down from the van and surveys the area. She oozes charm and confidence.
June 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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MARRIED WITH MUTANTS

Zombies, mutants, cannibals and warlords all come and go as Terry, Astor, and Slug try to get by in this post-apocalyptic world that has many of the same problems as our own.

Half hour comedy series.

#scriptsky #screenpit #Co #hoco #Pi
The title "Married with Mutants" over a shitty drawing on notebook paper of a three-eyed mutant. This is slug, the "child" of the titular married couple. And, since I have 1800 more characters: Did anyone notice the apocalypse? Seems the world ended a while ago and things just keep on going, but it’s not all horror and mutants all the time. Not like we see on TV. On TV it’s all fungus-headed killers and either slow zombies, fast zombies or mutant video game zombies ending civilization. But where is the humor? Can’t we laugh at the end of the world? Maybe make friends with the mutants? Astor and Terry didn’t ask to be roommates, but here we are. The wounded ex-wasteland warrior and the artist, not to mention Terry’s little mutant sidekick, Slug, are now roommates, if you can call three walls and a rotten plastic tarp a room. Throw in Zed, an undead neighbor, some cannibals and warlords and you have the perfect neighborhood to kick back and watch it all burn. We can even have a nice day out at the dump! Learn how to survive! The show will teach you: What is proper zombie-stabbing etiquette? How do you politely turn down a free meal from a cannibal? Are bullets a replacement for money or just min/maxing robbery? How do you greet a new warlord? These questions and more are explored each week as Terry and Astor, along with their friends and neighbors, negotiate the wastelands and the various factions that vie for supremacy. Come and join us at the end of the world where everything is eerily familiar!
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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THE JUDAS APOCALYPSE

During WWII, a bookish archaeologist embarks on a perilous quest for a long lost treasure that the Church has zealously kept hidden for centuries.

Top 1% Coverfly
Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival 2024
Finalist, Barnstorm Fest 2024

#ScriptSky #ScreenPit #fea #ac #ad
The Judas Apocalypse; stylized graphics of skull, a Knight Templar, soldiers; "Sometimes secrets are best left hidden"; written by Dan McNeil and Jasmine Aziz; Based on the novel by Dan McNeil
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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WHENCE: Trapped within the borders of a small town consistently plagued by supernatural monsters, an ostracized trio of misfits get a chance to be heroes when the towns original protectors meet an untimely end.

Buffy meets It’s Always Sunny

#screenpit #co #ac #div #lgbtq #pi
#sere #cfin
June 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The Universe's Biggest Bounty

A misfit group of the universe’s deadliest bounty hunters must work together against corporations, governments, mercenaries and each other to bring in the biggest bounty ever offered.

Animated sci-fi western comedy

#SFi #Co #YA #An

#screenpit
#scriptsky
Our hapless hero, Grohl (a monkey-looking being) on a wanted poster. The reward is one billion gillawong (space-money) and he is wanted "alive only". The title "The Universe's Biggest Bounty" is over the poster.
June 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
If anyone would like to trade scripts for feedback, I am off for the summer (being an English teacher and all that) and have time to read!

I have a couple of features and some half-hour pilots.

#scriptsky #scriptsky+ #summercoverage #hotwritersummer
#picnotrelated
Black line drawings of a snake, a fish and a bird trying to eat the fish's tongue. Very poorly done, but an excellent source of procrastination for the writer/draw-er
June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I wrote a song for a script I'm only halfway through the first draft of.
This is procrastination!
#scriptsky #scriptsky+ #procrastinationNation
A robot head with a spiral like a tornado coming out of the open top. A flying dragon-rat. Three arrows pointing at nothing or something. just pointing. I drew it and I have no Idea what it means. I'm still contemplating the statist viewpoint of art, that it must have a clear and apparent meaning. That it must fall into a recognizable form. All ridiculous of course, but how would they view this shitty black and white ink line drawing?
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
All my projects are side projects.
a black line drawing on white background of an octopus. Not a very good drawing, which I can say since I drew it, but cartoony and the octopus is wearing a pearl necklace and has big hearts in its eyes. The tentacles are tangled up and if you look closely one of them doesn't really attach to the body of the octopus in a very believable fashion. Oh well. It was fun to draw. My partner and I are fascinated by cephalopods and it's a theme in our relationship, which is why I drew it. And, just as an aside, isn't it weird that we can type all this in the text description but our posts are only 54 characters or whatever? I mean, I'm just rambling here and only about a third of the way through my limit. I could go on about squids or squirrels or whatever. hmmm. Nothing to say tho. Enjoy your day!
April 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Just got an idea for a Christmas movie. The hook. The gaff. THE INCITING EVENT. Always wanted to try one of these but never got a new take on it, you know?

Nice to know the muse has not deserted me. To celebrate: a doodle!

#scriptsky #scriptsky+
Two bugs fighting. I don't know what else to call it, I just draw when I can't think of what to write. It's a black and white line drawing and the bug on the right kind of looks like a shrimp but with grossly elongated arms with huge claws about to pinch the eyestalk of the bug on the left which looks like a frog with eyes on stalks, a shark mouth and a long tail with a stinger that is going for the other bug. I guess they are not really bugs. There is violence implied here, but not yet happening. In motion. Potential. I went to a museum once and was looking at a collection of a surrealist/dadaist artist and one of her works had been destroyed by a collection know as "Statists" who protest non-representational art. Sometimes I think I agree with them. The artist who had their work destroyed had tied it back together and come up with a cute and clever title for the new work. I'm not sure what all that last bit was about
April 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
Got seven unfinished scripts lying open begging me to write.
What do I do?
Doodle. I doodle.

#procrastinationLife #scriptsky #scriptsky+
six black line drawings of monsters. Top left is a monster head with two regular eyes, then three eyes on top. Middle top is a head with five eyes in a circle. Top right is a full-body ghost-like monster. Bottom left is a monster head with three eyes, middle bottom is a monster from the waist-up waving in a friendly way and bottom right is a monster head with one big eye in the middle and two smaller eyes on each side. They all have their mouths open showing sharp, pointy teeth.
February 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
thenullhypothesis.bsky.social
Got stuck on a script so everyone got gender-swapped.

It's working better now.

#scriptsky #scriptsky+ #screenwriters
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I'm very happy there is the 5 AM writers club, but let's hear it for the late-night procrastination club. Music. Doodling. There may be snacks involved.

#RIPDavidLynch

#OnethingIcan'tfuckingstandiswarmbeer!

#ScriptSky #Scriptsky+
A pencil drawing of a knot, rainbow colored. The drawing came from my headphone cables, which I twisted while thinking of plot connections in my script, to no avail, and the tiny demon procrastination called to me. Made me look at all the pretty colored pencils I bought. All that money I spent I must use them! I can plot while I sketch! I can! And the demon procrastination laughed and laughed and laughed.
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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#FirstPageFriday

THE FAIRY WAR

A decades-old cold war erupts into violence when new technology allows magic to be used in the human world and human weapons to be used in the Fairy world. An elite team of human and Fairy misfits must race to stop the end of two worlds.

#scriptsky #scriptsky+
Text: TITLE "The Fairy War" subtitle: "guns and magic". Logline: Recon Marines with fireball spells. A Gnome with a Glock. Centaurs with auto-cannons. One angry werebear. Two worlds at war and only one team can stop the apocalypse. If they don’t kill each other first. The picture is a (bad) line drawing of a special forces operator holding a gun that is a giant flower. Script: EXT. AREA 51 - ESTABLISHING SHOT - DAY The GROOM LAKE TESTING AREA squats in the vast empty desert. INT. HALLWAY INSIDE AREA 51 With iron gray hair and a razor-sharp uniform, GENERAL ALICE QUAY marches down the hallway, saluting with her good right hand and keeping her PROSTHETIC LEFT HAND by her side. INT. LOCKER ROOM Alice removes her uniform and prosthetic, and with practiced efficiency puts on chain mail, armor and a sword belt. Finally, she reaches into the locker and pulls out a very realistic prosthetic hand with the index finger pointing. EXT. ANOTHER GRAY HALLWAY Alice CLANKS to the end of the hallway and comes to a door with a sign on it in all eight of the UN languages. "WARNING: YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE HUMAN REALM." Alice opens the door and enters. INT. DOORWAY ROOM A large, hangar-like expanse looms liminally around a rock arch holding a wooden door. THE FAIRY DOOR is held partially open by a rock with swirls of irridesent light emanating. Two human guards with rifles and sword belts stand at attention on each side of the door. Alice enters and strides smartly up to the doorway. ALICE You ready? Guard #1 pats their gun. GUARD #1 Got my magic wand ready. GUARD #2 Killus Orcus rat-tat-tatus.
December 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM