Blog (Field Notes from the Timeline)
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An Ironic, No-Star Review of The Wrong Girls (2026), a Stoner Comedy Masterpiece
Photo by Esteban López on Unsplash A few weeks ago I saw this trailer for a movie called “The Wrong Girls” and I’ll be honest… it looked pretty funny. It must be on some sort of very limited release because for every movie theater it’s playing in here in NYC, it has…
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An Ironic, No-Star Review of The Wrong Girls (2026), a Stoner Comedy Masterpiece
Photo by Esteban López on Unsplash A few weeks ago I saw this trailer for a movie called “The Wrong Girls” and I’ll be honest… it looked pretty funny. It must be on some sort of very limited release because for every movie theater it’s playing in here in NYC, it has…
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Maybe I’m a (Musical) A-hole
When I’m listening to a song, I think it’s infinitely lame when somebody declares, “This song is old.” Every song is old because it was recorded in the past. Call me a purist, but the only time music is “not old” is if it’s being written or recorded right now,…
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Maybe I’m a (Musical) A-hole
When I’m listening to a song, I think it’s infinitely lame when somebody declares, “This song is old.” Every song is old because it was recorded in the past. Call me a purist, but the only time music is “not old” is if it’s being written or recorded right now,…
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Notes From an Accidental Tourist at a Critical Infrastructure Summit on Capitol Hill
Several weeks ago, I received a curious email from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology in Washington, DC. They wanted to know if I would like a press pass to attend a Congressional Summit on Critical Infrastructure & Cybersecurity on Capitol Hill. I still do not know exactly how I ended…
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Notes From an Accidental Tourist at a Critical Infrastructure Summit on Capitol Hill
Several weeks ago, I received a curious email from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology in Washington, DC. They wanted to know if I would like a press pass to attend a Congressional Summit on Critical Infrastructure & Cybersecurity on Capitol Hill. I still do not know exactly how I ended…
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Guess How Many Times ChatGPT Gave Me Slop Instead of a REAL Press Release
The following is an actual transcript of a conversation between a Human Being and a Large Language Model. Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash SHAWN WICKENS: So you’ve helped me write press releases before, correct? While I am a traveling stand-up comedian and performer, I don’t have you helping me coming up…
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Guess How Many Times ChatGPT Gave Me Slop Instead of a REAL Press Release
The following is an actual transcript of a conversation between a Human Being and a Large Language Model. Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash SHAWN WICKENS: So you’ve helped me write press releases before, correct? While I am a traveling stand-up comedian and performer, I don’t have you helping me coming up…