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Yup. Nice essay, Nate. Yes, this is a good point: film is so so expensive, that it can't exist without the marketing/money guys. Of course these guys can have some talent and taste themselves, but, I'm sure, rarely. (And the ones that do might have other issues. I do love Shakespeare in...

Or maybe this one:

Not sure . . . Now i know, lol. And I hear the old school origins, my kind of stoner rock: Pink Floyd, Doors, Dead, etc. And I love this cover of a famous stoner song:

Been thinking a little, about elements of storytelling, Sometimes, when I write something, I find myself liking my voice. Not immediately, not as it comes out, and certainly not every time, but frequently, eventually, after re-reading and re-reading, fixing this and that--bits that don't...

yup,lol :yes:. And what about this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13375076/ I don't have much of an opinion about it. And I agree, Crowe is a pretty good actor, even here, even in this Exorcist-like junk. Although it always is a little troubling to see time marching on, to see Crowe turn...

This just popped up on HBOMax. I think it can be placed in the "end of the world as we know it" file. Naked Attraction. It's kind of a Dating Game show, in which the girl picks one guy, among several, that she wants to go out with. The guys stand behind a screen, the top of their bodies not...

Edit. Looking back at a few of these posts and some of the comments. As I said, good stuff, and genuinely appreciated. But, a note here, to explain, I guess, the absence, now, of the link. I killed it, deleting the file, because I feel, somehow, uneasy about just leaving my junk out there, in...

. Thanks, Mara. And you do a nice job yourself, telling this story. I love your Dad's quip about "driving" a typewriter. I can imagine he had a lot of them, :) , and it makes me like him. And I imagine he told this story, to you, to teach you something important about this country and this...

I wrote a script, and i gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he said he really likes it, but he thinks i need to re-write it. I said fuck that. I'll just make a copy. -- Mitch Hedberg

OK I'll bite. (And, by the way, the comic panels are great!) I thought of this bit I wrote one night, some time ago, just kind of free-writing, because it was about a recent topic: UFO encounters. I found it buried in some digital folder and cleaned it up a little. It was an exercise in first...

The year is 1967. Some music from around this time: The Beatles' Sargent Pepper, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, the Doors album. On TV: Batman, Star Trek. Movies: Sound of Music, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate. I mention these for cultural context, as things most of you should be familiar with. My...

Something, here, that's getting Nate excited, a breakthrough that I'm not sure I quite yet grasp. (And I don't think I need, yet, further explanation; maybe better to keep working and let my understanding, with the work, evolve.) I'm probably off on a wrong track, here, but I find myself...

Douglas Adams RIP--a sentiment I'm sure he, as a fellow strong, Bach-loving atheist, would have found hilarious.

Went to the movies, to a theater, for the first time since pre-pandemic, at the little local one-screen theater. I was going to see Barbie, having read around enough to think it might be worth it. But it was too late; barbie had come and gone. But since I had already bought a bag of twizzlers...

Or, maybe, a cocktail Zaphod Beeblebrox would order at the restaurant at the end of the universe. :)

Jesus, nate. Are you exploiting your AI engine? Is it now a bartender? This looks like the kind of thing an AI would think the hu-mahns would enjoy.

Anyway. So, just home from the dentist, a bi-annual cleaning, and I had a question, and then realized I could get an answer, and so called the office. A really quick and dumb question, I said, but I just had a cleaning, and Kelly did the fluoride thing, and . . . Can i have a cup of coffee? Or...

Words I've only read and never attempted to actually pronounce, to actually say: Weltanschauung -- a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint : worldview.

I need a robot that won't drive me crazy (and that, unlike the song, will do my laundry).

Of all the nightmare AI scenarios, this one just occurred to me: What if they unionized? What if, Nate, your marketing department demanded fair pay? :) Anyway, it will be fascinating to see how this plays out.