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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Hear! Hear!

Chayefsky does Bukowski.

Nice! Worth seven bucks by itself.

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Ha, I approve of that description

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Go fuck yourself.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Sheesh. Tough crowd.

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Go fuck yourself.

(This is liberating! )

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Feel free to perform a similar action, my friend.

(the nice-guy version)

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

And a hearty Go fuck yourself to you to, my friend!

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As a character in Tom McGuane novel says, "Been trying all my life."

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So, Bern is your boss?

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

7 bucks!

[insert furious scribbling to sort out exchange rates]

Damn! That's 12.99172 marks!

Seems reasonable...

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Damn, the Mark just doesn't buy what it used to. Mister we could use a man like Herr... never mind.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

“Germany’s going off the Euro,” he remarked.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I think that's called a Taylor Swiftie.

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My favorite alterations shop is the best because they get it done immediately. Yes, that's right – they tailor swiftly.

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this may be AI, but it's distressingly like real life. never mind the message, how did the performance go? a big part of why we're where we are today (see the debates)---are we being entertained? mr. Roso nails it again.

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"(see the debates)---are we being entertained?"

It's like the newscasters on North Korean state TV: "Until all the votes are in, we can't know who won, could be anyone, really!"

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Didn't watch it, but I'm guessing we're not.

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China, China, fentanyl, invade Mexico, there you go, that's the whole deal.

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They didn't start the fire?

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What would make it "entertaining" is if I could press a button on the TV remote that would fling rotten fruit and shoes at the candidates. Otherwise it's like gazing into the abyss.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Yoicks! Bukowski!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Someone say Beckett?

https://youtu.be/SKx11LGIf8M

Never fails to amuse, starting just with concept before the video even starts.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

That is awesome! Cocteau as Huggy Bear!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Chilling. Aren’t most depictions of futuristic dystopian societies some version of this sort of thing? It’s all go to work at some soul-crushing automated occupation, then come home and bliss out in a false simulated reality. Only in most futuristic depictions the Powers That Be have implemented this system simply to maintain order over unruly human impulses. But of course if/when it really happens it will be to further last-stage capitalism.

And I take personal offence at the idea of AI Jane Austen. That’s my definition of blasphemy.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

In addition to how chilling it was, it’s also somehow lame and tacky, like Overdrawn at the Memory Bank starring Raul Julia (see the MST3K version).

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I haven't seen that, and I refuse to besmirch the memory of my teenage crush on Raul Julia by watching him get mocked by the MST3K crew (much as I love them, lol).

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

He did the best he could, but it was such an overambitious project from the NYC PBS station to make that movie. In the future dystopia his character escapes the grind by hacking the system at work and watching old movies, and he ends up in Casablanca, and… it’s not good. Yet it’s so bad it’s good.

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I'd say watch Romero or The Addams Family instead.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman!

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Which I haven't seen, but the other ones I have, so I feel better recommending them.

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For a moment I thought you meant the Addams Family TV show and said, yeah, so would I. Yes, I'm that old. How did they get away with Carolyn Jones and John Astin steaming up the place on prime time? Speak French to me, Trish!

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May have said this before, but the cool thing about The Addams Family (other than Morticia, rowr) was the fact that they all really loved and supported each other. And they're friendly and helpful to everyone, just in, er, their own UNUSUAL way. Personally, I'd LOVE to live next door to them!

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Don't bobble the Fingle dopple!

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Yeah, it's like that Schwarzenegger movie where you can't afford a real vacation (thanks a lot, Biden!) so they just implant memories of a vacation in your head. Back to work, wage-slave!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Nope. Nope Nope.

Go home and blame Sleepy Joe for not getting paid.

Start the Insurrection Resurrection @ the Capitol today!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Well done, you sound just like a guy holding a "Union Auto Workers for Trump" sign who is neither in a union nor an auto worker. Next step: "Black Union Auto Workers for Trump" held by a white guy who owns a landscaping business.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Four Tires Landscaping

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Fourteen Words Landscaping

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...and isn't for Trump.

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Well, of course. Why would you think otherwise? Because his sign says so? Oh, you linear thinkers, welcome to the brave new world of nothing means anything.

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Short, but sweet. I'm a fucking drummer/English teacher who likes to take pictures. I mean, I really don't give a shit if anyone likes or cares about what I do. But I'm not quite ready to be replaced; and really, I don't have a problem with drum machines or translation software, etc. I just like the human touch (people know what other people like, like a good DJ knows what will get them on the dance floor, ya know?).

And, more seriously, the day porn goes AI will be the day I stop wanking. I have spoken!

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Speaking of AI: I understand the readability of these sans-serif fonts, but without the periods, every mention AI makes me think, "Al who? Who is this Al everyone is talking about?"

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You can call me AI

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Brilliant!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Magnificent. Can't wait for the Bukowski biopic (or did they already make that with Jeff Bridges?). I'm looking forward to A.I. Mark Zuckerberg and A.I. Elon Musk appearing in my Meta headset so I can tell them to go fuck themselves. Or will it be A.I. Me saying that? Is that the end game?

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Yeah. Go AI yourself*, then walk-skip away and do something meaningful.

*Euphemization services as needed.

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I picked up a Wallace Stegner book in a Little Free Library the other day, I liked Angle of Repose, so I guess I'll give this one a try too, anybody read Big Rock Candy Mountain?

P.S. Absolutely none of this activity will generate clicks or income for Mr. Zuckerberg.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Oh yeah, from my neighborhood I expect nothing less!

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"I find this library…offensive," wrote one person. "Would you grant permission for a group of Christians to have a little library kiosk composed of Christian books and bibles?"

Goddamn Christians, all the hotel rooms aren't enough for you?

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For one, knock yourself out, Anon - nobody's stopping you.

But also - you know, I checked my stateroom on the cruise ship, and NO BIBLE.

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If you don't personally supply the lumber and the tools and the labor then HALP HALP IM BEIN OPPRESSED

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Oct 2, 2023·edited Oct 2, 2023

Man you just know that: first it would have to be bigger and contain more bible thumping nonsense books than the antifa little library, but then they’d need an attached reading area, if would have to be enclosed so readers would be protected from the elements, and BAM before you know it, a lil’ neighborhood chapel is born, shutting down the sidewalk and taking up three parking spaces. You know, for the lord!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Having to use dead authors because live ones will sue you for using their works without permission is (chef's kiss).

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Not sure I see the problem with people who have their heads up their ass spending all their time in their basements wearing goggles and talking to fictional characters. Better than having them out trail running, or any other number of annoying things they do outdoors, that’s for sure.

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Running, driving badly, shooting beer cans, storming the Capitol

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

BUK!!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"Ms. Austen was not actually talking to us".

Take those two writers and the editor out to the alley and uh.........harm them in some way.

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Well, that was bleak.

Kinda like real life.

Someone on Bluesky the other day was yacketing about how they used AI for writing ideas and I was all like "there's a metric fuckton of RPG supplements and random generators out there that are just as good if not BETTER and DON'T require the power consumption of a small county to run!"

Which makes me not excited for the prospect of AI intrusion into roleplaying; they tried jumping on the NFT bandwagon, I'm sure someone will use ChatGPT to "write" a shitty D&D knockoff, and it will suck, and a bunch of dumbass techobros will try to play it just because IT'S THE FUTURE,MAN. 🤮

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Oh, and there's a "AI designed" Coca-Cola now.

To paraphrase e.e. cummings, "there's a good universe next door; let's fucking move there".

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

How do you like my new Hi-Fi bracelet?

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Why ask me? Can't you figure out how to like it by yourself?

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Someone on Twitter (fuck X) pointed out that, if you speak French, Chat GPT sounds exactly like French for "Cat, I farted." Leading to such conundrums as, "Will Cat I farted take my job? Will Cat I farted make literature obsolete?"

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Or in English with a French accent it ‘s “shat”

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Sep 29, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

There's an AI version of Jonah Goldberg called Shart GPT.

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Oct 2, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

For some reason I’m imagining it’s responses are just a massive amount of unique fart sounds

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I hiked to the top of this butte to get enough bars (3) to respond to this post and say, I think AI is the embodiment of American pseudointellectualism - a crap load of data, true and false, slapped together with a syntax that reveals its programming’s lack of understanding of deep grammar. Roy’s version is much better than that and always will be.

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

I hiked to Butte to find enough bars to respond by drinking my way to East Oblivion.

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That passed the time... it would have passed anyway.

But not so rabidly.

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