Alec Baldwin is writing a memoir about Trump with famous humorist Kurt Anderson and it was released for order on Tuesday. Baldwin writes as Trump in You Cant Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump, a project inspired by the actor’s parody on SNL which you can laugh at here. Image Via Vanity Fair The satirical narrative covers Trump’s first year in office and is set to reflect on the role of satire in the Trump era itself, along with the aim of posing political satire as deeper truth. It will involve Trump trying to …
These young authors have accomplished something quite incredible, having taken the time out of their busy teenage schedules to, I don’t know, become published authors. 1. Christopher Paolini Image Via Wikipedia Starting at the tender age of fifteen, Southern California’s Christopher Paolini started writing Eragon (2002), an international bestselling fantasy book that kickstarted The Inheritance Cycle. The book has since been made into a major motion picture. In this tale of magic, glory, and power, a young farm boy takes fate into his own hands and becomes a kick-ass sword-wielding dragon-rider. What began as a teenage daydream became a favourite in the YA fiction genre. …
New advances in computer technology continue to surprise and excite us, but it is difficult to tell where these advances are going to take us in the future. The world of AI is changing rapidly and since people are freakin’ out about our impending obliteration at the hands of the robot community, AI researchers have decided to teach robots a lil sumthin’ sumthin’ that’ll decrease this potentiality considerably; that sumthin’ is empathy. Empathy: the difference between right and wrong, the capability to put oneself in another’s position, to understand or feel what another is feeling. Knowing that, yes, taking candy from a …
English novelist, essayist, and short story writer Zadie Smith has written an essay called “Under the Banner of New York” about the tragic event that grieved the city last week. Image Via CNN Smith shares her thoughts on how New Yorkers, in our “elastic social arrangement,” respond to such events, and how we faintheartedly carry on with our week unsure of what to do or how to help. In the moment, however, we do all come together and assist in any way we can. Like many a New Yorker right now I talk a good game but my mind is scattered, disordered. To me, the …
Disney is remaking our childhood fave and we can go see it on July 19, 2019, only 624 days away. HAKUNA MATATA! In 1994, Disney graced our lives with the beautifully animated, perfectly scored, and heartwarming tale of lil lion Simba. We have wholeheartedly not moved on. Driven away from home after the murder of his father and subsequent tyrannical rule of his uncle Scar, Simba wanders around the bush alone and afraid until he decides not to eat Timon and Pumbaa, a fearless meerkat and a party-hungry warthog. Together, the three of them live their best harmonious …
