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So I enjoyed writing that review last night of the “groundbreaking” 1960s movie Blow-up.\u00a0 Mocking something so utterly dumb was life-affirming.\u00a0 It’s like watching that video of Musk brow-beating that dopey BBC reporter, just wonderfully satisfying.<\/p>\n

Today we have a party to go to in the mid-afternoon so it’ll be a limited writing day because I also was handed a honey-do list by Camera Girl and there was a seriousness in her demeanor that leads me to believe that stalling will be seriously frowned upon.\u00a0 Well, uninstalled new windshield wiper blades and blocked driveway drains are the stuff of wifely discontent so I guess I best bestir myself.<\/p>\n

On the plus side I knocked off another 2,000 words on the story.\u00a0 That’s another 2%.\u00a0 Pretty good, pretty good.\u00a0 And on the topicality front I did add an AI character to the story.\u00a0 And that was before the current mania.\u00a0 It was probably more an homage to “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”\u00a0 Interestingly I’ve made mine a girl and she’s possibly the most enjoyable character in the book.\u00a0 I’m trying to decide whether to kill her off or her creator.\u00a0 One of them will have to go.<\/p>\n

We had a ninety degree day on Friday.\u00a0 That’s pretty damn hot for mid-April.\u00a0 But we’re back in the fifties today.\u00a0 But the heat really activated the dreaded mayflies.\u00a0 Yesterday a cloud of them enveloped me while I was pumping gas.\u00a0 Four of them followed me into the car and I was swatting at them like a lunatic while trying to drive on a busy road.\u00a0 And the pollen is so thick you can taste it on your tongue.\u00a0 People are walking around coughing up a lung.\u00a0\u00a0Ah the joys of spring.<\/p>\n

But life is good.\u00a0 We turned the heat off a few days ago and there was still a balance in the heating oil account.\u00a0 So Dementia Joe hasn’t quite bankrupted me yet.\u00a0 Camera Girl will put aside her soup recipes and all sorts of warm weather provender will appear on the menu.<\/p>\n

I was reading through the daily news and opinion rags with distaste.\u00a0 The left is made up of dishonest people and idiots.\u00a0 But the Right is hardly a paragon of virtue and intelligence.\u00a0 Even when they get something right often it’s like the whining of the village idiot.\u00a0 It’s just too painful to listen to.<\/p>\n

I was watching a vlogger post about how camera photography was dying and how phone photography would kill it off any day now.\u00a0 Maybe he’s right but that just tells me people are just too lazy to use the best tool for the job.\u00a0 But he has a certain point.\u00a0 The convenience of the smart phone has taken a heavy toll on the use of conventional cameras.\u00a0 But despair seems a little melodramatic.<\/p>\n

Well I better get on with my chores or I won’t get fed today.\u00a0 Camera Girl is a Harsh Mistress. So enjoy the day and I’ll see what I can think of to comment on later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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