Jim Marino

This is my annual ritual peace-out until Easter.

Peace!

Keep hope alive.

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

I know, but Moon Boy seems dreamy and cool. Mars Boy is like a Mars Bar: kinda gross and apt to melt in almost any warmth.

Sure. But you aren’t going to see the back of him. He’s too shrewd.

My Italian ancestors did not come here for the Scots-Irish culture.

My Irish ancestors were actively fleeing the “Scots-Irish culture” that colonized and starved them.

(“Scots-Irish” is a word with an actual meaning, whether Mars Boy knows it or not.)

They (and especially Affleck) have always been shrewd and clear-eyed career planners.

I realized long ago that Affleck was never going away, even if more talented actors were.

The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.

("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Why, Valentine, what braggadism is this?

At least it didn’t say “THE BARD.”

That’s just painful.

But have we mentioned… his landscaping?

Fuck Heathcliff
Marry Darcy
Kill Rochester

Pretty sure that’s always been the obvious ranking.

The real AI story is how the press amplifies scammers and spammers.

Fortune Magazine platforms a known AI fraudster’s hype.

The NYT hypes a spammer who clogs Kindle with 200 slop romance “novels,” taking her word on her profits.

THAT is the story. THAT tells you what’s happening.

It really is funny watching AI people talk about AI as intelligence. Like Jim Henson telling everyone on Sesame Street how scared he is of "the thing that lives in the can."

The GOP is used to DHS being the thing that no one wants shut down, that would be irresponsible to shut down.

But this week DHS employees fired a laser weapon in active commercial airspace. To destroy a Mylar balloon. How will we ever get by without those people?

One thing I think the Writers Guild really got right in our last negotiation was asking "Even if the tech doesn't work, how could they use it to pay us less?"

You were super cool in the Peak Blogging years.

No. She has the machine do the typing, too.

9 Feb 1567: Mary Queen of #Scots visits Darnley in the company of Archibald Campbell Earl of Argyll. Darnley would be found dead after an explosion during that night, that of 9-10 Feb.

Why are there all these banjo-picking vampires outside Levi’s Stadium, demanding to be invited in?

"Super Bowl, it's-a no football. They use hands. Stupid-a fúcking game."

Which ones aren’t?

"... as the work was copyrighted in my own name, there seems little we can do. The publisher expressed to my attorney his desire to meet the author, his admiration for the book. He relayed an invitation to a party in his home last night."

Hail the traveler. A great life's work. (3/3)

"... Anonymous, no return address, postmarked Grnd Cntrl Stn. The stories reveal my deepest secrets. The most intense and intimate movements, relations of my life. Only one person could have written them. Or had reason to. My attorney is investigating the possibility of a lawsuit, but ..." (2/x)

The great James Sallis has left this world. Here is a fragment of his classic story, "Binaries" (Orbit #9, 1971):

"Someone has written a collection of short stories and published them under my name; they have even put my photograph of the book cover. I received a copy in the morning post." (1/x)

Winter Olympics tip:

if your country can’t get at least silver in the biathlon,best STFU about seizing Greenland.

Is this the one with chopped sirloin?

If I make an $80 lasagna, the ghost of my immigrant nonna is gonna materialize and whack me with various spoons. Might be worth it for the family togetherness.

Minneapolis has real Boston 1775 vibes lately. No surprise that John Adams—a moderate farmer and lawyer, yet the principal agitator for independence—was radicalized against the English crown by its Eye of Sauron-like brutality against his city.