King George’s Secret Lobster Kaiju
In a last ditch effort to win the American War of Independence, King George III, with the help of the Earl of Bute conjured a malignant giant lobster to attack…
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June 12, 2024
AI Movie Script: Training Data
What happens when you ask Microsoft Copilot to rewrite the storyline for Training Day with this prompt? Rewrite this storyline that's in quotes and make Alonzo Harris an AI instead…
May 29, 2024
Review: Last Acts by Alexander Sammartino – Chekhov’s Gun Store
What would Anton Chekhov say about introducing a gun store in the first act? To Sammartino, he might say, well done. Sammartino makes full use of the gun shop in…
May 21, 2024
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The Enjoyment of Returning to Japanese
I haven't studied Japanese in twenty-three years. It's hard for me to grasp that. I majored in Japanese Studies. I loved learning the language. Then life took me into creative…
April 5, 2024
Writing My Novel with Refuse to Be Done
This generic image was made with Dalle-2. I've read a lot of books on writing through my undergraduate and graduate studies. While focused on craft, these books don't speak so…
March 28, 2024
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, a Response to Father Coughlin
I'd never heard of Father Coughlin until I worked on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and our Mellon-funded AI grant for CLAMS. We were testing automated speech recognition models…
March 21, 2024
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Celeste Ng Knew Librarians Were Next
I read Our Missing Hearts when it first came out and really enjoyed the novel. The book is about resistance, struggling for freedom, and the dangers of autocracy. It reads…
March 18, 2024
Return to Office or Separate from the Ministry
Innovation! Productivity! Camaraderie! As another CEO says, return to the office or separate from the company, I came across this clip from Brazil that encapsulates the perceived reality of the…
January 31, 2024