There is no apparent way to update Xfinity's information about my phone number and email, and so I have to pay my bill by sending them a check using the post office. This is frustrating. It makes me feel like I'm stuck in the 20th century.

Some of us aren't beating the AI drum as much as the rest of you because it makes possible things like the video of the President of the United States beating up the Prime Minister of Canada with a hockey stick. When AI stops being a toy for childish sociopaths it can have a place at the table.

Anybody know the 1963 British film BILLY LIAR? This young guy is not making any effort to solve his problems because he keeps retreating into his fantasies....

..... Like who we currently have as President if I was being too subtle for you.

Maybe this is falling through a moral trap door, but TWO Trump terms has mellowed my opinions about Nixon and Reagan.

I remember books, not movies, being society-wide obsessions -- Stranger in a Strange Land, The Hobbit -- and I wish we could get back to that.

Taratino turned being "the flavor of the month" into a 27 year career. Sorry, but if your big final story asks us to get wistful about Matt Helm/Dean Martin movies and off-screen you dis Hitchcock, who let you in, anyway?

Way the hell back in 1970s high school, I had a poem published in the school lit magazine. My closest friend asked me What The Poem Meant. About 4 years later, our friendship had a definite end point, but that request for The Meaning Of It All should have been my first hint.

You know, I could probably post AI video of William Faulkner telling me I'm a great writer --- but that would be vain and stupid.

It occurred to me today where I have heard of things like ICE's electric shock gloves. It's the type of thing Dr. Doom would have in Fantastic Four comic books.

I'm committed to writing at least two to three pages a day, even if I'm not working on anything.

Novelist Elmore Leonard hated amnesia as a plot gimmick. Well, we're in a cliched amnesia story only somebody forgot to include the amnesia. On the daily, Trump does one terrible thing after another and we're expected to act like none of it ever happened. Name one of our battleships after you???????

I don't know. That little cartoon lighting bolt probably looks better than, you know, me.

And we're back! My Bluesky was offline all afternoon. Hey, I get sleep also. I understand.

I think there's this idea out there that Americans are pretty much decent people. I don't believe that at all. I think some of us are real shits.