I’m staring at a copy of Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole, and thinking to myself “why have I never heard of this until now?” As I often say in this space, There are Holes. I suppose I say it quite a bit more now that Josh Brolin did it so eloquently on Outer Range. Moving on, I’m happy to be able to move back into the comfort of Jon Oliver offering snippets of wisdom and comedy on a weekly basis. The end of the writer’s strike meant the return of Last Week Tonight alongside a plethora of day and night time talk show TV. The real shows have yet to return, but be sure they will be arriving shortly after the SAG strike is resolved. What bugs me about strikes is that it seems inevitable the Strikers will have their needs met. The entire point of the employers holding out is to see if the strikers will break, but any good strike force knows that they have the leverage here. Sure, they are hurting now, but the public won’t stand for scabs in acting and in other areas (such as automakers) there just isn’t a workforce to replace them. This corporate conundrum is a huge part of why automation and AI usage is such a growing threat.
Some Thoughts:
- About time to rip the fictional band aid off. I will be devoting ALL of November to Nanowrimo-style writings for the 10 minute rule. That means 30 days and 300 minutes of new fiction is coming your way shortly. I don’t even know what it will be! That part excites me most of all.
- Going back to Josh Brolin for a minute… This man auditioned to be Batman. He would’ve been spectacular. I wonder who the newest caped crusader will be?