Eric the Blue
Mostly politics, sports, literature, arts reviews
Category: Reviews
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As predicted, I stalled along the long open road of Henry Adams’s History of the US, but, as reading in bed is still my Ambien, I was lucky to stumble again upon the novels of Evelyn Waugh. The one everyone knows is Brideshead Revisited, which was made into a movie as well as a lauded…
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I saw a Replacements tribute show at the Turf Club a week ago and have been listening to their records again ever since. My God. A friend and I like to play the game, Favorite album? Favorite song? For me, it’s changed, and it will again, but tonight my answer for the first game is…
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Shoveling snow. Watching sports on TV. Ubering teens to their New Year’s parties. Debating with myself whether to be asleep at midnight or stay up till my young reveler is delivered home by someone else’s dad. In short, living life all the way up. According to the actuarial charts, I have maybe 15 years left,…
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Got back this morning from running some errands and discovered a dog biscuit sitting atop my mailbox. My mailman–though it’s a she–loves dogs, and always has a treat ready when our ways cross on walks. It’s to the point that the dog gets excited when he sees those postal service vans, and can hardly be…
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The Wikipedia article on Elon Musk’s chatbot commences: Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) chatbot developed by xAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Grok has apps for iOS and Android and is integrated with Twitter…
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