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Back at Groening’s studio, he is talking up an idea he had for another episode inspired by Kevin Kelly’s death clock. Kelly recently calculated how much longer he had to live — he estimates around 23 years — and posted his own personal life countdown clock online. “I started thinking, wouldn’t it be cool if you had a death wristwatch?” Groening... See more

Futurama Death Clock

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Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

Jim: Well, on the ride to the preview, any thought of writing for yourself leaves me. Let me tell you the greatest story about people who genuinely work for themselves: John Cassavetes did a picture called Husbands and Time magazine called it the greatest film ever made, and you can certainly make the argument for it. They had a scene that took

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

accept the call

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

Characters create façades to mask the things they fear inside – we all do.

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

classic subversion of expectation – an explosion that happens in the life of a character to throw their journey off-course

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

To relieve the pressure, he pictured himself shoveling words into a furnace where they burned to power a colossal ocean liner

Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up

SARAH SILVERMAN (2014) I’ve known Sarah Silverman since she moved to California to do standup when she was twenty-one years old. Back then, she was the young, hilarious girl who was from the same town in New Hampshire as my friend and roommate, Adam Sandler. That always seemed so weird to me, the idea that two brilliantly funny people could come

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

new ‘call to action’.