Rambling – Bill Doty

Rambling

April 30, 2025

Every Day Waiting for Your Life to Blow Up

There’s a moment—right after you open your eyes in the morning—that doesn’t feel like waking up. It feels like surfacing from a dream into a gasping panic. Like you’ve missed something. Like a siren was going off and only your soul heard it. For a lot of people, this isn’t just anxiety—it’s muscle memory. It’s...More Please

April 25, 2025

Filmmakers asking for free waivers—some thoughts from a fellow indie filmmaker and new festival director

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I wanted to share some thoughts and experiences as a low-budget filmmaker who recently launched their first film festival. It’s been a wild and rewarding ride, and I’m genuinely proud of what we’ve built. I started this festival because I was tired of submitting to festivals that felt impersonal, expensive, and out of touch with...More Please

April 23, 2025

Just Over A Month Away – For The Land

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In just a little over a month, I get to do that thing I swore I’d stop doing every time I’m knee-deep in 14-hour shoot days and running on gas station coffee and loose prayers. That’s right — I start production on my next film: FOR THE LAND. Now, if you’ve followed along with any...More Please

April 8, 2025

Facebook Marketplace: Where Common Sense Goes to Die

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So I recently moved halfway across the country. That sounds dramatic, but really it just means I left behind a BBQ grill, a couple of decent couches, two too-many end tables, a graveyard of gardening tools, and basically all the things that made my garage feel like a garage and not an echo chamber. I...More Please

March 25, 2025

The Perfectly Crazy Time to Buy the Perfect House

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We bought a house. In the middle of a movie project. With apocalyptic interest rates. While juggling dogs, deadlines, and a growing pile of to-do lists that are starting to whisper threats in the night. So yeah, now is the perfectly crazy time to buy a house. But also? The perfect time. Tulsa was always...More Please

February 6, 2025

Having Coffee with Business Jesus

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Yesterday, I decided to step out of my home office and work on a budget for an upcoming project at a coffee shop in Tulsa. Normally, I’d do this from home, where I can freely pace, talk to my dogs about creative decisions, and not have to pretend to be productive. But since I also...More Please

February 4, 2025

We’re Making a NEW Movie: “For Their Land” Starts Filming This Spring

Movie Rambling

You ever have one of those ideas that starts as a casual “Hey, what if…?” and then suddenly you’re knee-deep in production schedules, casting calls, and scouting locations in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, me too. Back when I was still in Idaho, I pitched a story to a professor at Boise State University who...More Please

January 23, 2025

Do you have a Brain that Wears Glasses?

Rambling Writing

Over the last few years, I’ve personally struggled with being too aware of my surroundings. Whether it’s too much social media, too much news, or just watching the world seemingly fall apart, I’ve felt the weight of seeing things that others don’t seem to notice. What’s most frustrating is watching people around me remain unbothered...More Please

January 10, 2025

Welcome to Oklahoma, Hunker Down

Rambling Writing

Growing up in California, I thought I had natural disasters figured out. Earthquakes? No problem. Fires? Annoying, sure, but manageable. As a kid in L.A., earthquakes were like impromptu recess drills. The ground would shake, and we’d run outside, laughing, pretending we were part of some action movie. Fires? Well, one of those did burn...More Please

January 7, 2025

My Best Dad Joke Nobody Every Laughed At

fark tv Rambling Writing

Back in 2007, I was in the thick of writing and producing Fark TV out of Atlanta. If you haven’t heard of it, don’t worry – it ran on Adult Swim’s SuperDeluxe platform, which is now defunct, like most of my career aspirations at the time. We churned out four to five episodes a week,...More Please

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