David Simon, creator of The Wire, in an interview with NPR, has the final say on AI and writing.
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At my pit of a school Panini football sticker albums were everywhere. I hated them. But a lot less popular were the movie related ones. I really remember the RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) one and how much my mum hated buying me a packet of stickers.
Now I’m a dad I started the kids off with 100 packs. Let’s see how we get on…
Natalie Morales says, ‘Hi!’
Jaime’s mind was blown today when I showed her that her favourite rabbit used to be on The Middleman with Natalie Morales.
I guess this is her first on-camera prop.
RIP Donald Sutherland
Devastating. I’ll be writing about his work in the next newsletter no doubt. But right now… fuck and damn it.
Not now, Sizemore
I got to read to Jaime’s class today. Killed it.
I thought Not Now, Bernard would go down a storm, but it hot a little differently from what I expected. I guess it’s very much of its age, hell, it was read to me when I was their age. They couldn’t handle the ending.
‘What happened to Bernard?’ one kid asked hesitantly.
’THE MONSTER ATE HIM!’ replied another.
I explained to them that some stories can be read a little differently than just what’s on the surface and maybe there wasn’t a monster at all. Maybe Bernard was pretending to be a monster to get his parents’ attention.
But even then it’s a story about having shitty parents. It’s not very 2024. Also I don’t believe it for a second.
Bernard’s dead, baby. Bernard’s dead.
The second book was more of an instant hit, mostly because I’m way past being self conscious and the book is very good at putting the reader on the spot. I left the books for the class to have and I’m sure the teachers are going to hate me once they have to act the thing out.