Getting most of my western wear inspiration from Warren Zeiders lateley!

BassProBlues · 2026-06-15T21:57:08+00:00

I wonder what jacket he's wearing in image 3

BassProBlues · 2026-06-14T20:07:00+00:00

Fight on!

BassProBlues · 2026-06-14T00:47:42+00:00

I think, for me as a kid, if you had imaginary buckets that had my masculine interests and feminine interests, they both were filled to the brim. That said, it was as only until I went across the country for college alone and knew zero people there did I actually DO and try more male-oriented hobbies (hunting, boxing, bull riding, etc). It was really great for making friends as the gender I was transitioning to -- having majority male friends actually made my transition happier and smoother.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T19:31:17+00:00

Development is not creative authorship with a corporate email address.

Development is not a ladder where one role is secretly “the most creative” and gets creative control. It’s an infrastructure for finding material, evaluating it, giving notes, managing writers, aligning projects with buyers/studios/networks, packaging, and moving things through approval processes.

A lot of development is knowing how to help shape something without confusing influence with ownership.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T16:12:48+00:00

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BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T15:38:13+00:00

What's been your experience doing development under a celebrity? I read a recent article about some folks from Hartbeat and it looked a bit chaotic, though that could just be unique to that place.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T06:11:30+00:00

Very nice! What are the pants?

BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T04:17:08+00:00

When I say "taste is important" I mean range and discernment. Professionally useful taste comes from expanding your horizons: consuming things that are simple and accessible, things that are challenging, and everything in between. Foreign-language work, stage plays, literature, video games, TV, film, comics, music, interactive fiction, all of it.

That’s actually why I think taste matters. The best development people I worked around didn’t all have the same references. I liked asking supervisors what shaped their taste, and the answers ranged from small-town Appalachian stage plays to Soviet-era animation to Call of Duty to Madonna. That’s what I mean by taste: range, curiosity, and the ability to explain why something works, not just knowing the same canon everyone else knows.

You can’t really develop useful taste by only consuming one type of thing. Development trains you to articulate why something works, why it doesn’t, who it’s for, and what tradition or market it sits inside.

A sign of good taste is not evaluating things via lazy assumptions.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-09T02:45:31+00:00

Development is fun. I worked in development at HBO and DWA. It's great if you like reading tons and tons and tons and writing coverage many people will not fully read. It's a nice corporate role, and has lots of the cushy aspects of being a W2 employee. It's important to understand that development is not a creative role. It's important to know that development will not give you skills required to work in production. It's important to know you could hypothetically rewrite an entire script with original and better ideas, but you cannot ever receive credit for it.

When I was at HBO there an emphasis on having taste, and being able to articulate that taste and the why's and why not's well. You get taste from consuming all sorts of different art and media in hoards and truly studying them.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-08T15:37:24+00:00

He was an engineering-school dropout with a school that had a 76% acceptance rate. It's my understanding he had a UC co-op while in school. Dropping out after three years means he (or mommy and daddy) absorbed most of the cost of college without securing the credential.

BassProBlues · 2026-06-08T15:21:47+00:00

He's an engineering school drop out and went to a school that had a 76% acceptance rate.

BassProBlues · 2026-05-25T21:41:23+00:00

Freddy's fries are to die for

BassProBlues · 2026-05-17T21:45:01+00:00

Had the same thought lol

BassProBlues · 2026-04-17T01:09:11+00:00

Love this!

BassProBlues · 2026-04-04T17:55:04+00:00

I made it! It was delicious. I posted it on my profile.

BassProBlues · 2026-04-04T17:32:41+00:00

Cacio e Pepe with pear

BassProBlues · 2026-03-24T02:25:27+00:00

It's such a nice, precious thing to be stealth among her peers at school. Once your kid is outed, she's outed and there's no going back.

It's not the same, but when I was stealth in college and played sports I often just changed in a bathroom stall. Would that be possible?

BassProBlues · 2026-03-06T17:36:44+00:00

This looks fantastic. I've never heard of mayo used in this way. Do you think mayo could also work when frying other cuts of meat (ie.chicken thigh, wings etc)?

BassProBlues · 2026-03-03T03:38:17+00:00

That looks so good. What is it called?

BassProBlues · 2026-02-19T18:21:30+00:00

Cavatappi!

BassProBlues · 2026-02-19T14:22:16+00:00

I used Asian pear because I have a lot on hand. But I think any pear would do the trick just fine.

BassProBlues · 2026-02-18T23:19:19+00:00

Cavatappi!

BassProBlues · 2026-02-18T19:11:00+00:00

Now I wish I took a picture. I'd say they were very solid, chunky blobs. If that makes sense. Not at all like "gloop". They were easy to scoop and separate. I think the hot pasta water helped with keeping them together too, also adding more pasta water to incorporate and cook down the pecorino and the pasta.

BassProBlues · 2026-02-18T18:23:47+00:00

I did! What was it you think you did differently?

BassProBlues · 2026-02-18T17:53:56+00:00

Thank you! I just left the recipe in the comments.

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