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Ted Geoghegan

@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social

Overly-emotional bi dad who loves cartoons and horror, hosts trivia, and is occasionally lucky enough to make movies // WE ARE STILL HERE. MOHAWK. BROOKLYN 45.

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Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

I pulled a muscle in my left scapula on Wednesday morning, right before catching my flight to Montreal and have been in near-sobbing pain since then. I'm praying that it goes away at some point so I can actually go out and enjoy a movie or some socializing! Yay, getting old!

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Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

My father told me to avoid speaking ill of the dead unless they were scumfuck trash. Then you should speak very ill of them when they're alive, even moreso after they die, and forever onward so their shittiness is never, ever forgotten.

Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

I never thought there would be a day in which I'm not amped for a new EVIL DEAD, but the heartless nastiness of the last few have really bummed me out. I get that Ash had to kill his sister in the mostly-humorless original, but the act was never played for sheer agony. These ones are so MEAN! <1/2>

Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

As someone who is wracked with guilt over basically everything, automated "We're sorry to see you go" messages have never once guilted me into resubscribing to a mailing list that I've just opted out of.

Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

Columbia Pictures ad exec who likely got paid by the word: "What if we add a second really long tagline, like, directly under the shish kebab tagline? And what if we put a third tagline under the title of the film? And what if we put a 23-word warning at the bottom of the poster?!"

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Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I ran a page of my 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage non-fiction book through an AI-detector to see the same, and it flagged a private letter from Ronald Reagan, handwritten in 1986 and lost until I uncovered it, as 100% AI written.

Summer Brennan@summerbrennan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you want to piss off your dorky friends, tell them about next month’s $100M Universal release about the making of a Hollywood horror movie in the 1930s where the film team accidentally summons an Elder God and a giant pustulating mass that then attempts to devour the world. <1/2>

Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gene Shalit (along with his absurd taste in film and fashion) was one in a million. Of TERROR TRAIN, he said “You’d be off the rails if you don’t choo-choose this loco-motion picture”, yet he called DAWN OF THE DEAD “Yawn of the living” and famously loathed THE SHINING. RIP, king of the dad jokes.

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Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I watch A LOT of Murder She Wrote. The strangest thing I find with the series is that, over the course of 272 murders, Jessica Fletcher never once acknowledges the shadow of death that surrounds her. Like, never once. She's always totally blindsided - and never goes, "Seriously, man?! Again?!"

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Ted Geoghegan@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey author friends. I'm seeking an established literary agent for a non-fiction book I've spent the past two years on. Been tooling around on Publishers Marketplace for some time, but thought I'd open it up to friends, as well. Any advice, opinions, or insight would be very welcome!