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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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Solar System Space Opera

 


Happy New Year! My podcast, A New Mythology for the New Millennium, continues with my Solar System Space Opera. 

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I wrote the prompts, but the music is Suno AI-generated. Suno is very pop-oriented and it was interesting to see how it could be pushed to produced more nuanced music. This project explores how AI prompts and music offer a new way of presenting themes in my writing. 

I will follow up later in January 2025 with a podcast on the mythological or occulted history of the solar system fits with my Dark Matter literary symbolism.

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