Kev Quaid

2022 Drama Award Winner, 2025 Drama-Top Finalist, Black List 8/8/9, 2026 Capital Fund Hot 100 List “Fearless”

[Digi @digiii]

I'm in love with this quote:

"The entire point of life is to take chances on dreams that seem crazy to most, but feel like destiny to you."

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Kev Quaid @ThePaleWriter]

@GoIntoTheStory Die hard Detroit Lions fan… Since the 90’s…. I can relate

[Sopranos World @SopranosWorld]

We’ll miss you 😢

[Alexander Delarge 655321 @AlexDelarge6553]

People don't know that prince is a top 10 guitarist to ever live. Watch this shit! (Took me a while to believe this)

[Kev Quaid @ThePaleWriter]

Johnny called it back then. A movie about the making of Rocky would be a hit: I PLAY ROCKY. Coming soon!

[Czar 🐦‍🔥 @iamsmartZY]

Steven Spielberg reveals that after Jaws became a massive hit, something strange happened: everyone around him suddenly stopped giving him honest feedback.

Steven Spielberg: "Jaws came out and Jaws was a phenomenon, and people stopped talking to me. All of a sudden all that input stopped. I started to make Close Encounters and everybody was quiet, as if I knew what to do. I didn't have all the answers. I was desperate for collaboration, for opinions."

Steven Spielberg: "One hit movie and there was an intimidation factor which I had never experienced anything like before."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.”

— Mike Tyson

[Psyche Wizard @PsycheWizard]

Epictetus was right when he said:

[Kev Quaid @ThePaleWriter]

Final day of intensive three week sales training. New gig. Lots of memorizing and studying, last test today then I’m on my own schedule again, which means I can finish my rewrite that’s been stalled for two weeks… I have it all planned out, just zero time to enact the notes.

[Script Pipeline @ScriptPipeline]

Sadly, Dave Trottier passed in March. Just learned today, 4 months later. Hadn't seen anyone post about it. 😔

If you recognize the name, it’s because Trottier was such a huge name in the screenwriting universe. For decades. His Screenwriter’s Bible lived on many shelves, in all its 90s cover art glory.

Can’t quantify how many writers first got the urge to try screenwriting because of Trottier. RIP 🙏

[Modern Notoriety @ModernNotoriety]

Nike has released a new Erling Haaland ad ⚽️

“The Five Stages of Haaland”

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Preta :) @pretademaiss]

odeio quando eles fazem bons memes kkkk

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

No red card.
No penalty.
No yellow card.
No foul.
No review.

FREE FOLARIN BALOGUN.