Sisyphus Forced to Push Boulder Inside of a Giant Cubicle
Plus, Scout Finch Fashion for Fall and That Make or Break Beowulf Test
Hello, readers.
I recently finished watching season 2 of “The House of the Dragon.” Not sure I can wait 1-2 years for the conclusion.
At least the internet is helping me cope with the release of an AI-imagining of a trailer park version of Game of Thrones. You can read Andy Meek’s article and watch the video posted on BGR here. Just wait until you get to Bran Stark.
This got me thinking: maybe George R. R. Martin needs the assistance of AI to help him finish “The Winds of Winter.” I know Martin is dead set against the use of any technology while writing (I believe he still uses Wordstar 4.0 that runs on MS-DOS) but maybe he can find the right inspiration with a little help from Google Bard.
Martin claims that despite working “almost every day” on the book, he is nowhere near where he wants to be on the final installment of the Thrones book.
“I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.”
He’s actually been working on this thing since 2010, so he’s now been working on it for 14 years. What has he been doing all this time? Shopping for little fisherman hats? Experimenting with different ways to eat charcuterie? Watching his own TV shows of which he is an executive producer and then hate-blogging about what he would do differently?
It’s time for him to suck it up and just release what he has. Axl Rose had to do the same thing when he released Chinese Democracy. Eventually you just have to eat a shit sandwich and publish the thing, or each year it will become even more difficult to release. Fans will eventually turn their backs on him, or get tired of waiting and no matter what, just trash the thing even if it is the best thing he has ever written. The hype will just be too great to overcome.
An entire legacy tarnished because Martin has a little writer’s block? Is it worth it? Just ask AI to finish the thing already and be done with it already and then he can get back to writing his vampire fanfic Fevre Dream and mixing all of his favorite different cereals.
Anyways…
Our top story today is about Sisyphus’ degrading new task: rolling a giant boulder up a hill inside of a cubicle.
But first we get a glimpse on the next fall fashion trends with tastemaker Scout Finch and check in on the high school senior whose entire future rests on passing this one multiple choice test on “Beowulf.”
“Out in Wester Holler where the trailers lay…”
A student in Mr. Linliner's Senior English class has been led to believe that her entire future rests on a “Beowulf” multiple choice test. If she doesn't do well, she might not be ready for college or even adulthood itself.
The student spoke about her stress: "Mr. Linliner has made it very clear that his class is going to get us prepared for college. I guess my professor will also give us weekly reading checks where we must remember Grendel's height or recall the name of the mead hall."
The student can't even fathom how this might affect her entire future. What will her adult coworkers think of her if she can't remember these things at Pub Trivia?
It's time for ham costume-chic.
Ah, the 1930s! It was a glorious time, especially in the name of style. Tastemakers cite the Great Depression as a memorable fashion heyday, from the slouch hats to belted waists to large yoke collars.
But there was one fashionista from that time period who is getting a second life in the stay-home era with her iconic ham costume: Scout Finch.
Traditionally, women were tall and slender with narrow hips, but Jean Louise Scout challenged all of that with her frumpy and dumpy school pageant costume. The Mrs. Crenshaw-sewed chicken wire and brown cloth cured-ham costume is surely making a comeback this season!
Now he can finally "concentrate."
Sisyphus' job just got a lot more demeaning! Zeus ordered that the punished Titan must now must push the boulder up the hill within the confines of a cubicle.
"There are a lot of sights and noises on the hill and I can't have this guy getting distracted, '' said Zeus.
"However, Sisyphus will now have an overhead bin and a few new shelves for his personal effects."
Realizing that the punishment is a pretty good one, Zeus plans on putting a few more cubicles on the hill and expanding the workforce.