I feel for Cara Delevingne because she’s bonkers like me, if even if her style of being bonkers is a bit more self-destructive than my type. But the looks I’ve seen of her from tonight’s 2023 Met Gala are really good.
I’m just a rando, but I just eyeballing what I see, Ms. Delevingne did a great job. She’s an amazing subject just in general and she came to serve tonight. She definitely has a timeless beauty to her.
There’s a reason why they pay her the big bucks, as they say.
Please understand where I’m coming from — I’m bored and feel like letting off some steam by writing about the 2023 Met Gala because it’s value free content. So, please don’t get too worked up.
This is Alexa Chung tonight. For those of you playing the home game, you’ll know I’ve had something of a celebrity crush on Ms. Chung for some time now. I’m no fashion expert, so, please ignore my opinion, but I not impressed with this look on her.
Ms. Chung is a very attractive woman, but this outfit does her no favors. But I am just a broke ass rube living in the the middle of nowhere. So, lulz. I’m sure I’m missing something. I’m sure that in the eyes of high fashion this outfit is great.
Seeing Ms. Chung in this picture reminds me that we’re all getting older, especially me.
I’m all for Hollywood writers getting a better deal from the studios, but to get that is probably going to require some industry-wide pain. The thing I’m worried about is that if the writers’ strike lingers longer than any of us might otherwise expect, there is a possibility that, lulz, AI-generated scripts could fill the gap.
Technology usually advances dramatically in times of crisis, so it’s reasonable to assume that it’s possible that if we find ourselves in month three or four of a strike that the major studios, in desperation, will turn to ChatGPT and other similar LLMs to write scripts.
And, remember, the vast majority of TV and movie scripts…suck. They’re formulaic and horrible and yet because of the economics of the industry they get produced. So, it’s very possible that there will at least be some experimentation in AI generated scripts.
That’s how progress happens in abrupt, unexpected ways, shit like a lingering strike. So, it will be interesting to see how things work out.
I’m of the opinion that given the capitalist imperative that Hollywood as we know it is careening towards an astonishing revolution. It’s just a matter of if it’s within five years or 10 years. The longer the writers’ strike lasts, the more likely that we’ll wake up in late 2024 to most of scripted entertainment being done without the benefit of ANY human writers.
I do think, however, that if such a nightmare happened, that we would see a significant increase in the popularity of live theatre.
At day 31 of my final push to finish the second draft of this novel, I’m feeling pretty good. It’s at least possible that I may even have some slack in my projected chronology to the point that I can go through the entire draft a few times before I hand it over to other people to stress test.
So, in a sense, my ability to control the process is going to be reduced because I need other people to cooperate. And given that I have no friends and no one likes me, my ability to get someone to not only agree to read the novel, but to finish it and give me good input is probably pretty limited.
They say, of course, that if you want people to beta read for you, YOU have to be a beta reader. I’m totally prepared to do that, of course, but I probably need to get back into the habit of reading just in general so I can transition into reading other people’s second drafts a lot easier.
As it stands, I really struggle reading anything that I haven’t written.
At the moment, I have a series of scene summaries written out that I SHOULD be able to simply go through one by one and find myself at the mid-point. Once I’m at the mid-point I hope — HOPE — things will go even faster. I probably am going to do a once over on the “Fun & Games” part of the novel before I push forward into the second half of the novel.
But, in general, I’m very pleased with what I’ve managed to come up with. I feel like I’ve finally gotten my writing to something akin to professional. I feel that once I edit the second draft a few times, that by the time I hand the beta draft over to readers that they will be reading a novel that is equal to something they might find in the bookstore.
That, at least, that’s the goal.
If nothing else, the story I’ve come up with is really interesting and I could see if people really like it that I will have a base of support for the next novel in the series. But a lot — A LOT — could go wrong that will if not squash all my hard work, at least dramatically change the context in which it’s done.
But, anyway. As I keep saying, you have to work on what you do know, not on what you don’t know.
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