@RobbieBarstool@ChrisKlemmer Harrison Ford was too old for the character. Patriot Games is actually supposed to happen before Red October, chronologically.
@ingelramdecoucy From what I've been told, it was getting observed at some HBCUs at least since the 90. So it was building up to be more than just a niche regional holiday.
Michael Pollan explained his entire writing process to me in 70 minutes. Afterwards, he said: "Man, I just gave you a whole semester's worth of lessons in a single conversation."
Timestamps:
0:48 Does coffee make you more creative?
3:37 Do drugs make you creative?
10:45 How psychedelics shape your thinking
12:57 Journaling
16:29 Michael's routine
18:55 Writing a 1st draft
20:34 Why write in the first person?
26:09 The Cow Story
34:08 Balancing stories and facts
39:02 Metaphors are a cheat code
42:48 Finding good questions
51:25 Reading novels
55:40 How Michael does research
1:01:43 What makes a good character?
1:08:35 Art expands consciousness
1:11:05 Michael's top writing lessons
You'll find the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.
First SCOTUS opinion of day is in the case about whether users of recreational marijuana forfeit their Second Amendment rights. They do not, says Justice Gorsuch for a unanimous-ish Court. No dissents, but a couple of justices concurred instead of joining Gorsuch's opinion.
@maxinemoonxx I said "yiffing" on a conference call with coworkers back at the main office. I was on speakerphone, and someone walking by their conference room knew what that meant.
@nerdimmersion Who is the movie for? It's a PG-13 movie for a set of toys aimed at 8 to 11 year old kids. There's no current cartoon series for it, and the guys in their 50s that grew up with the original cartoon are too worried about losing their jobs to AI to spend $50 for tickets and snacks.
@catturd2 I only know him from a song he did with Little Big, "Turn It Up", which is probably not your bag... The hook from this song was used a million TikTok memes: https://t.co/xPNLLyQuIv
@CooperZurad Software is built from packages of code like Lego blocks. Your program is like a castle from those blocks. Every so often one of those blocks needs to be replaced, and maybe the replacement is not the same shape as the old one. But you still want your castle to look like a castle
@fiago7 Chicago is at the same latitude as Rome. New York City is the same latitude as Madrid. Los Angeles is the same as Casablanca. Wear your sunscreen.
@japan_nobunaga Even if the police cared, most DA offices don't prosecute petty theft cases. So there's been a rise in organized theft, where the same products are stolen in multiple stores. Then the products are fenced through street vendors, Facebook or Ebay.
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@transport_6641@xsyntryk1 The used mash is technically renewable biomass and being bought by powerplants that are getting government handouts because they are "green" energy. This is like the US govt subsidies for corn ethanol driving up tortilla prices in Mexico.