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January 01, 1990 - November 18, 2012 + Martini Shot
Please RT 
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Long talks about the most powerful part of the human body, if you work in television. It's the thumb. The thumb that tweets.
Basic Math
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My dog has a rubber toy that has a hollow core, and what you’re supposed to do is fill the core with peanut butter or...
Why Make Yourself Crazy?
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Rob Long tries and fails to baby-proof his brain. It's a complicated metaphor, but...
Genius Bar
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Rob Long learns something from the people who work at the Apple Store: when you go on break, always take off your T-shirt and ID...
Arm Tap
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Rob Long tries to follow the only rule in screenwriting: he tries not to be boring.
Eighty Percent
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Rob Long muses on the only two things that anyone in Hollywood really cares about. Getting credit and getting paid. Not in that order.
Joke Insurance
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Rob Long on who gets credit – and money – for what on a writing staff. And more importantly, who gets blame.
Get Mean
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Rob Long discusses the three stages of a writing staff – when everybody's nice, when everybody's funny, and when everybody's mean. It happens fast.
It Would Be Nice
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Rob Long goes to a French restaurant, tries to break the rules, and fails -- and he twists the whole thing into a parable about...
Boom Shadow
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Rob Long drives around and gets lost, and then does what people do when they're in the car and trying to figure things out: he...
The Compliment
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Rob Long can't take a compliment from an executive, and as punishment, he's subjected to an awkward personal conversation. It was worse than it sounds.
The Spread
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Rob Long talks about the cruelest thing you can do to a room full of writers. No, not more script notes. It involves lunch.
Take Your Writer to Work Day
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Rob Long spins a writer's fantasy. What would it be like to spend a day with a studio or network executive, and give them notes...
Second Date
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Rob Long talks about golf, dating, food poisoning, and how all three are perfect ways to describe the television business.
Goat Cheese
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The only thing Rob Long doesn’t really like is goat cheese, but for some reason, people still want him to try it. How that’s like...
