You know how much I love great writing. I got a big surprise when I found an old autobiography on Amazon by the late, great John Houseman. The surprise is: The man was a spectacularly great writer. The book is Unfinished Business; the paperback was published in 1988...
“Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.” I recently read an article about how A.I. was supposed to reduce the workload of those in the world of writing. Instead, literary magazines have been inundated with A.I.-generated stories....
Lance Ulanoff is prolific US editor-in-chief for TechRadar. On February 25, 2023, he published an article titled: ChatGPT showed me just how far it is from writing a blockbuster. When he first learned of this AI program’s authoring ability, he momentarily lamented...
Fifty-seven years after the hit show Mister Ed went off the air, and 53 years after Bamboo Harvester (Ed) died, something finally occurred to me. Something’s wrong in the tune. The theme song is in two parts. First part is the show’s opening, followed by the...
On a whim last night, I did a Google search for a guy named Strange de Jim. Some older folks in the San Francisco Bay Area will know that name. Strange was a tipster with a marvelous sense of humor. “Tipster?” you ask? “Who did he send tips to?” To a legendary daily...
