Excellent! I love her and I love Fresh Air!

Exactly. It’s about AI except when it’s about religion except when it‘s about alcoholism except when it’s about social media except when it’s about narcissism, etc. But it is still FOCUSED & not meandering, which is fascinating to me. Genuinely exciting to try to unravel each episode. Plus, its fun.

Stay strong, Derek. I hope things are looking up.

He actually looks the best out of everyone there

He shoulda talked to Gene first, got something that looked really great like his

I haven't watched a soap since Luke & Laura, pre-wedding, but for a summer when I was a kid, my babysitter was wayyyyyy into General Hospital

Ha, no, not a snowball's chance!

Also:

YIKES with the lipstick print

I remember a Richard Price interview where he talked about shifting from fictional autobiography to more researched fiction in CLOCKERS. He said that he started mining his own life and couldn’t be present, that taking his kid to the ER for a broken arm, he‘d think “This would make a great scene…”

Thx for this; I just read that article. Whether he fabricated the Stewart interview or not, his presence in it was so overt I had trouble (in the screen grabs posted) figuring out who was the interviewer and who was the interviewee. I find (probable) charlatans like this utterly fascinating.

i think she’s just defending her own Method, which is to take a Xanax and slouch

Yes

Amazon Music is free with Prime, FWIW

100% agreed.

Me too—that was the one remaining useful tool on Twitter.