Recent content by JLT

I was reading an article in the New Yorker about AI-generated "companions" with whom you could have a relationship. It bought up an interesting question: If you published a story that included your posts and the posts of the "companion," would you have to share a writing credit with that digital...

When I moved to New Mexico, I found that you could buy booze at the grocery store, but when the store was open on Sunday, the booze section was gated off. And on my first visit to Utah, the grocery stores didn't have wine at all. I had to go to an ABC (alcoholic beverage control) stores like...

Brooks is on record saying that Madeline Kahn was the most gifted comic actress that he'd ever met. Madeline and Gilda (and John Belushi) left us too soon. I don't think NBC knew what a gold mine of talent they got when these folks were hired for the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on...

To which Groucho might have added, "I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll make an exception." But one of my favorite quotes from Lincoln was his response to being served a beverage: "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

When I broke open the cookie that came with my Panda Express order, I found only a blank strip of paper. It was, needless to say, unfortunate.

Not sure what you mean there, Homer. A lot of his fiction was pedestrian, but the Foundation series hugely influenced subsequent science fiction. And his non-fiction writing was a model of clarity and insight. Speaking of dirty limericks, Playboy ran a page of them by Shel Silverstein (I think)...

Ray Bradbury was a piker. Isaac Asimov claimed to have had up to five typewriters all going at the same time. He said that he was delighted when he got his first word processor, because it meant that he didn't have to switch chairs anymore. He only had to substitute one floppy disk for another.

And, needless to say, those paratroopers would have to have visit the future to hear Rocky cry "Adrianne!"

Unlike many lovers, who are on record as saying "Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God ..."

generonym A word I got from Benjamen Dreyer's "A Word About..." column. He defines it better than I can: "which though it looks/sounds like what parachutists used to popularly scream when they were hurling themselves out of airplanes is in fact wielded to apply to a brand name/trademark that...

Yup.

A prime number indeed. Your next one will be 73. I hit 78 a few days ago. In many ways, I am more a 78 than a 33 1/3...heavier, thicker, and not lasting as long. (And aware that people much, much younger than me may not get the reference.)

I can just hear Weird Al singing that song.

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

We could do a whole thread on song parodies: Downtown (with apologies to Petula Clark) If you don't like the radio in your car You can always go Downtown Just leave it parked in front of any old bar For half an hour or so Downton Some punk will steal your radio But don't you go a'stewin' Just...