This article makes an argument I’ve been pointing out for a while. The studios had Netflix envy and started trying to compete with Netflix instead of selling them content.

So they went from a profitable business selling shows to Netflix/cable/TV & making movies to an unprofitable business chasing streaming revenue and trying to acquire customers. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-07-21/column-hollywood-sag-aftra-strike-strike-silicon-valleys-magical-thinking

The stage is set.

AMC’s surprisingly great adaptation of Interview With the Vampire is coming back for season 2 next year, but in the mean time you can check out this brief glimpse at the all-important Théâtre des Vampires and how it relates to Lestat.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAMOadixFM

RIP Tony Bennett. The legendary singer will be missed but his beautiful music will live on.

Tony graciously joined us at our last MacWorld San Francisco in 2009 and sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”.

It's an amazing, otherworldly sight, if you've ever been lucky enough to witness it.

Probably my most memorable occasion was in the 1990s, on a road trip through Maryland and Pennsylvania... early one summer evening, we stopped at the site of Antietam, the bloody Civil War battle... and there, as dusk set in, the fields all around us unexpectedly began lighting up with thousands of fireflies. It was unforgettable!

Link to comic -- https://xkcd.com/2802

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