We can all agree that Diana Taverner in Slow Horses is related to the American Tavners from Patriot, right? It's the family business. Maybe the spelling was changed at Ellis Island.
This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all
Thank you for making Defector a thing. All you writers over there are really good and help me get through, and occasionally understand, These Troubled Times.
When he attacks Norway, that'll trigger Article 5 of the NATO charter and potential military action against the USA. Trump, the master strategist, is already deploying troops to various states in anticipation of this event. Always a couple steps ahead.
Yeah, each of his books grabs me at some point, but making sense of them requires keeping track of so many things! Before starting I tried to refresh my memory by heading to the internet, and got lost in all the lore. I'm not sure if I'll pick up books 6-10(!) of Stormlight. I'm kinda sad about it.
Just started Wind and Truth, the latest Sandersonian epic tome. It clocks in at over 1300 pages. I like it, but I don't know if I have patience for epic fantasy anymore. It seems more a function of being in the back half of my 40s more than the internet's brain rotting powers, but both play a part.
I just watched Groundhog Day with my kid. While watching I thought, "Boy, Andie MacDowell looks *a lot* like Margaret Qualley." That's because Ms MacDowell is Ms Qualley's mom. Turns. Out.
Surely that info was somewhere in my brain, dormant. I'd seen their wiki pages before tonight.
For a while Flagpole Sitta was one of his all time faves. He told me this on the way to school one day and I said, “did I ever tell you John Roderick played in this ba–“
General song, this one below by a band called Splashdown.
Our tastes overlap quite a bit. He discovered Eminem on his own somewhere and has several of his songs in the mix. He only listens to albums when he’s in the car with parents.
My own retired baby is charting his own course through music, and like yours has little use for albums. It makes no sense to me! At lease he's a Long Winters fan like his old man.
Like I said, it's a fuzzy idea I have, but maybe I ought to stop thinking "surprise" and start thinking about "originality". The best art has something new, which is in some way a surprise?
Anyway, I probably ought to just check it out, like you say...
Does the Sora stuff ever surprise you? I've been thinking about this fuzzy idea about good art being able to offer up surprise that *seems* to have some connection with humanity. Can the current models do that?
(Full disclosure: I'm overly skeptical about AI, but I try not to be a dick about it.)
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
