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Going Back to Malibu Jack's

  One of Malibu Jack's matchbooks. Source:  Reddit .  The reader's willing suspension of disbelief depends on believable detail, driven by plot and characterization. I have the perfect locus of nostalgia and a watershed moment when a happy time and place crashed, burned and ended. First, the location. I and my dear friend, artist, Chris Dorosz , keep talking about Malibu Jack's, a California-style restaurant which opened in 1985 in the ByWard Market in Ottawa, Canada . Picture this:  Lost Boys  and  Less than Zero  were in cinemas;  Miami Vice  was on the television. Everything was covered with neon and palm trees. Malibu Jack's tapped into the fad and Ottawa's teenagers converged there for crab croissant sandwiches, cheeseburgers, homemade potato chips and tacos. People remember the restaurant on  Reddit ; and some of its recipes are still circulating online . One of the busboys, Stephen Beckta, was so impressed by his experience there ...
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A New Mythology for the Turn of the Millennium: The Podcast

The blog will now begin exploring the power of AI to discuss the stories I have been writing for over a decade and plan now to bring closer to publication. Since AI is considered a universal threat to creators, I will discuss what it means to work with this exponentially-growing medium as a commentator and potential fictional character in itself.
 
To that end, I have a new podcast series about my fictional writing: A New Mythology for the New Millennium. This first podcast was generated by AI and is the start of a new journey, building on the work I did at Histories of Things to Come and on Patreon, Discord and Telegram. It will also profile the millennial characters and storylines in my fiction.
 
The AI voices are a bit weird, but that is part of the exploration. They make conclusions about my writing, a form of odd literary criticism from 'out there.' Link to the playlist. Link to Podcast #1. Can an AI which is commenting on human arts become a critic - or a metafictional character inside those arts? We will see.
 



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