Fascinated by proper pop icons like Robert Smith and Prince, who seem to have woken up one day, thought 'I have an idea for a Look' and just 100% nailed it. Like that Look was already out there and they just walked into it somehow.
Tapping the sign again.
Meta is building a AI-powered Mark Zuckerberg avatar to give employees guidance and feedback. At Block, Jack Dorsey believes an "intelligence layer" will eliminate the need for any managers between himself and 6,000 staff. Both CEOs are envisioning the same kind of omnipresence and control.
Aw thanks David! Keep up the good work
I really liked this series, David. Lots of food for thinking.
Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.
Goodness but I love that bit at the end of an Agatha Christie where Poirot gathers everyone in the library and spends an inordinate amount of time telling each person why they are a deplorable human being. Extremely open to a real life version of this set up, ideally in a billiards room.
Accurate
I am literally saying my name aloud as I do it to make it real and sincere
Signing books and my signature is so bad I could probably go into the witness protection program, change my name and still use the same signature
Look, I’m late to the Geese discourse but I personally think Ducks and Rabbits are just as good. All any of them are missing really are opposable thumbs, neediness and guilt
Like the people who treat the Sopranos like a movie about a plucky mobster trying to do crime well or the people who hate Skyler in Breaking Bad because she's getting in the way of Walter White being a cool crime badass.
I think the Gordon Gekko/Wolf of Wallstreet thing is more about the "bad fans" that Emily Nussbaum wrote about who always think charismatic characters are meant to be rooted for.
I was always aware of the liberal critics who really thought Verhoeven was being pro fascist but thanks to social media I've also come across fascist FANS of Starship Troopers who think Verhoeven was being pro fascist!
The maddest version of this is all the people - mainly in America I think - who watched Starship Troopers without realising it was satire.
I read and reread all the Narnia books over and over and loved them without ever twigging they were Christian allegories. I guess we were so embedded in such an explicit Catholic culture here that the very obvious allegory was too subtle :)
There's definitely a stage of life thing too. There are books that I wasn't ready for and books I was too late to.
Irrespective of whether they REALLY got it or not I do like the idea of saying "oi you're reading it wrong" to people.
(though now I'm definitely going to respond to every bad review with "oi you, you're reading it wrong")
There's something fascinating in the notion that you can read something "wrong". It's definitely a thing I've done with books that I've come back to later and loved (though it's also overly tempting as a writer to respond to bad reviews with: "Oi you, you're reading it wrong.")
Latest death toll released by the Lebanese ministry of health includes the grim milestone that 100 medics/first responders have now been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2. I wrote about attacks on healthcare a few weeks ago, when it was 42 www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Now THIS is looksnaxxing
I will defend this magnificent bit of Phil-era Genesis TO THE DEATH.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OIk...
I am totally Russian-dolling this now but here's the picture of Phil I drew as a "professional artist"
No one ever expects that really
Just reposted this for "reasons" and have remembered it includes an ILLUSTRATION by me of Phil's happy face which makes me not only a professional actor (hear me in A24's Eternity) but a professional ARTIST.
I'm so sorry, John.
GAH my mistake - my interview with Will Tracy is on FRIDAY. Days are so confusing
