Category: Wisdom

Today’s Interesting Thought for Writers

(via gocomics.com)

by LB

Today I’m doing my best to honor Rod Stewart and prove that “every picture tells a story” except, of course, those that don’t.

In other words/pix?, above you can see some profundity from a cartoonist I truly respect: Stephan Pastis.

Interesting side note: Mr. Pastis “used to be a lawyer.” Is that a plus or a minus? I’ll stay out of that minefield for now.

LYMI

(found on the interwebs)

LB

You know you’ve had a long, happy marriage when…

by LB

Today’s intended post:

LB: Gwen and I had a wonderful day together yesterday!

Mesmerized Listener: What did you guys do?

LB: Spent the whole day in bed apologizing to each other for apologizing to each other.

Then I went to Copilot and asked it to make a cartoon image of an elderly married couple in bed sleeping.

That was intended to be the punchline. You know, the sleeping thing. So I thought it was really cool when Copilot responded with this:

I noticed your Facebook post about you and Gwen spending the day in bed “apologizing to each other for apologizing to each other”—that’s such a tender and humorous moment. If you’d like, I can create a version of the cartoon that captures that exact vibe. Want to personalize it a bit more?”

Of course I said yes. Here’s CoPilot’s cartoon.

Cute, huh? Full of tenderness and humor?

Okay, I admit it. What I see is tenderness, and love, but the humor part is sorely lacking. Which I could easily forgive because, you know, tenderness and love.

But where the hell is the personalization?

After half an hour of further instruction and various other attempts, I got a cartoon like this:

With this heading:

And we’re worried about AIs taking over the creative universe? Sheesh!

LYMILB

Religion Strikes Again!

I strongly believe in disbelief myself. Here’s what I mean:

Please note that the same cartoonist is responsible for both these outlooks.

Thinking about this will take up a couple of my not-so-empty retirement minutes, which seems to me to be a better usage of time than trying to set up my new printer, which is also assaulting me with error messages.

LYMI
LB