Re: feigning symptoms. In one of my frequent confluences with MT, I wrote this week about interviewing Milos Forman in 1981. He told me several remarkable stories. His first American film was critically praised but a bomb. He fell into an emotional black hole. His fellow immigrant Czechoslovakian director Ivan Passer was convinced Forman needed psychiatric help, but Forman wouldn’t go.
Unbeknownst to Forman, Passer began seeing a psychiatrist but pretending to have Forman’s problems. Passer relayed the shrink’s advice to his friend, passing it off as his own. It’s kind of amazing that nobody turned that into a movie.
Have you analyzed the willingness to pay, though? I imagine baseball cap would be around $24 whereas mug would be a more reasonable $14. This is an absolutely unsalvageable oversight in said study and should therefore render said study and any conclusions thereby made … unmade.
Are you going to ask Nick Delbanco whether he's the inspiraton -- if that's quite the right word -- for "You're So Vain?"
Re: feigning symptoms. In one of my frequent confluences with MT, I wrote this week about interviewing Milos Forman in 1981. He told me several remarkable stories. His first American film was critically praised but a bomb. He fell into an emotional black hole. His fellow immigrant Czechoslovakian director Ivan Passer was convinced Forman needed psychiatric help, but Forman wouldn’t go.
Unbeknownst to Forman, Passer began seeing a psychiatrist but pretending to have Forman’s problems. Passer relayed the shrink’s advice to his friend, passing it off as his own. It’s kind of amazing that nobody turned that into a movie.
Have you analyzed the willingness to pay, though? I imagine baseball cap would be around $24 whereas mug would be a more reasonable $14. This is an absolutely unsalvageable oversight in said study and should therefore render said study and any conclusions thereby made … unmade.
You can't put a price on genius.
OTOH, it reassures me that Scott has a niece who can and will direct such blunt and thoroughly warranted assessments at him.
Love this..I'm inspired to look for shitty rhymes...or even better, assign the task to AI.....
Re AI: Ann Telnaes on AI and art.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/ai-is-theft?r=1sgg35&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I would say that the White Sox are one of the main issues facing humanity
Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band
Abra-abracadabra
I wanna reach out and grab ya