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Once every four years, while the World Cup is happening, I make a point of saying that there is only one thing I am interested in wrting about. This time we are hosting the tournament, and if we have been payng attention, we have learned something about ourselves in the process. But let me be more respectful to our co-hosts, Mexico and Canada. We did not host this tournament alone, and it was…
NOTE: My upcoming novella (it's a quick 120 pages) Valparaiso will be out either late this year (2026) or at the very beginning of 2027. You can catch up by reading the 1st sneak peek here , although that section has also been slightly re-wrtitten - the minor changes are just that, minor. Here is the frist full mock-up of the cover: From Chapter Four: Tommy unlocked the front door of The Everton…
From The Guardian: "The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence. "In multiple instances, S&C, which employs more than 900 lawyers and has one of the top reputations for corporate work in the US, filed inaccurately summarised conclusions made…
Movie Pizza Love is a VERY low budget film we shot in 2006 (happy 20th anniversay to everyone who was involved). It took a couple years of struggle through post production to get the film out in front of audiences, which is why IMDb lists it as a 2008 film. My editor friend Marceline De Angelis and I have been working on what we're calling the 'restored 2026 version' of the film. It still isn't…
Before we get started, The Cannes film Awards will be first to point out that they are NOT The Fesitval De Cannes, the big Cannes film Festival in May. they are a month later, in June. You can check out the Cannes Film Awards website here: https://cannesfilmawards.com/ And find the original of this interview here: https: https://cannesfilmawards.com/interviews/peter-wick Your project has entered…
I was involved in a conversation, recently, about kids. "We protect our kids too much these days,"a friend was saying. "When I was a kid we had to learn by making mistakes, falling out of trees, scraping our knees on the pavement when we were learning to ride a bike." I found my self nodding in agreement, thinking about all the scrapes, injuries, bruises, broken body parts, black eyes, etc, that I…
Valparaiso is a beautiful city in Chile, on the coast, about 75 miles from the capital city of Santiago. It is renowned for its street art, or more accurately, its building art. Murals and scenes are painted on buildings throughout the city. The example below might become a part of the book cover when this book is ready to be released sometime later this year. I found the city to be the perfect…
(NOTE: I definitely did NOT intend to do another 'blast from the past' post this month. I was all set to write some sarcastic satirical piece about how President Trump does not understand basic 5th grade math. I was mulling over and over in my mind exactly how I would expose Trump for the moron he truly is. But... then something happened inside me...I discovered that I did not have the stomach,…
(NOTE: this is another blast-from-the-past post I did one earlier this year, something from years ago, that I thought could survive seeing the light of day now. this was actually printed in my college paper back in the 80s (this should explain the reference to people asking me about 'this quarter'). Then, after being printed in the college paper, it made its way into a little collection titled,…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet/Russian rebel and author, once said, "Live your life, not because of the prevailing politics. Live your life in spite of the prevailing politics." But this post is not about politics. It is about artificial intelligence, and the salesmen and billionaires who think they are entitled to tell us how we will live in the not too distant future So let me adapt…
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