What if...a creature consolation prize?
The best critters I saw at the Rose Bowl Flea Market
Hello!
I’ve been working on some other things recently. My class is coming back! I’ve been playin’ around with different mediums/forms! I’ve been trying to just, I don’t know, exist!
So please enjoy this collection of new friends from the flea market to tide you over between now and whenever I manage to get my thoughts on Puss In Boots: The Last Wish organized. Presented without additional context, obviously:
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My household’s third screen-free Saturday in a row.
Having “Nobody’s Watching,” from Marry Me stuck in my head the last 48 hours (my friend Ale wrote it and it’s a certified earworm).
This Ted Chiang piece about ChatGPT in The New Yorker. The Xerox/lossy compression to AI analogies aren’t perfect, but I really resonated with his argument that “a good first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly [this is what AI does]; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say.”
Girl Scout cookies! Trefoils and Samoas, specifically. If you’ve tried any of the newer ones, please report back!
Fabulous!!!!!