You could start a bar fight over A.I.’s many pros and cons. I’m picturing pocket protectors and bottles of ZIMA flying around the room! Mine is a perpetual state of fluctuating ambivalence. I will stipulate that in my medical career as a radiologist, I embrace it as an adjunctive tool (notions of our replacement beingContinue reading ““You can’t lose skills you never had…””
Tag Archives: writing
“FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SELF-DEALING WORTHLESS SACK OF SHIT!!”
It’s hard to imagine the Grifter-in-Chief lowering the bar any further, but he’s done it. Yesterday, Trump 2.0 announced a new Swampland Slush-Fund to fraudulently reward people who beat-up cops and tried to overturn an election (based on Trump’s own brazen lies and disgraceful failure to acknowledge defeat). These are people who pled-out or wereContinue reading ““FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SELF-DEALING WORTHLESS SACK OF SHIT!!””
“They’re HERE… and they’re LOUD!!”
I started reading the collection of short stories by Martin Amis called “Heavy Water” and straight away he has inspired me. In the first story “Career Move”, we get a flailing screenwriter who has submitted numerous efforts to an industry insider but to no avail. In an angry letter after many months without reply, heContinue reading ““They’re HERE… and they’re LOUD!!””
“Marching Marginalia”
Like many, I’m deeply ambivalent about artificial intelligence with all of its countless advantages and dangers, both the known and unknown. A.I. credibly threatens to disappear entire job titles without a clear pathway for their replacement. Human creativity is being actively coopted through unattributed imitation, if not blatant theft. We see the destructive capabilities ofContinue reading ““Marching Marginalia””
“DEMAGOGUE Records presents…”
… the complete back catalogue of the incomparable and highly consequential musical artist COVFEFE. The sound of an entire socio-political movement that broke like a category-5 tropical (septic) cyclone. No graphics required. He neither asked permission nor forgiveness. No shits were left to be given — it was all there in the music. The highsContinue reading ““DEMAGOGUE Records presents…””
“Black Mirror”
“It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” — President Donald J. (for Jackass) Trump on COVID-19 in 2020 KenContinue reading ““Black Mirror””
“Old Fezziwig!”
A Merry Christmas to everyone from Great Exudations! This year we have a special treat for you. That timeless traveling troubadour, Tommy Treacle, was in the studio with me earlier this week and we were discussing all things Christmas. Below is a lightly edited version of our conversation. Enjoy! Host: Welcome back, Tommy! It’s beenContinue reading ““Old Fezziwig!””
“Trivialities”
My wife was ribbing me the other day about someone’s name I couldn’t remember. It was right there at the tip of my tongue, and, given a month or two, I would have recovered it all on my own. Sadly, now that I’m on the wrong side of 60, these these happen not infrequently. TheContinue reading ““Trivialities””
“What more can you ask of life…??”
It’s an interesting thought experiment to ask yourself what you truly want out of life. I mean pizza, wings, beer and sports all have their place in augmenting our lives. But, then again, that depends on the pizza. Let’s be honest, most are mediocre. Many sound great in description and even look delicious to theContinue reading ““What more can you ask of life…??””
“The Yellow Brick Roads Not Taken”
They say it’s the journey and not the destination. Hard to argue with that kinetic theory of life and our elusive search for happiness. And yet — to wax Zen — it seems the more complex the problem, the simpler the solution. In short, as Warren Zevon succinctly put it as he was dying ofContinue reading ““The Yellow Brick Roads Not Taken””
Great Exudations 