Lewis LaCook

@lewislacook.bsky.social

poet-laureate of the feeling that something ain’t quite right poet / musician / engineer https://linktr.ee/lewislacook https://lewislacook.org https://open.spotify.com/artist/6SBbL2LlYbNodec3BpQ7Cf?si=cEjqHn0lRySG38KDb7_ilg

Whenever you ask somebody “if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?” they always pick a person they’d personally benefit from. Fuck that. I’m picking the Earl of Sandwich. Taking him to Quiznos. I want him to see the magnitude of his legacy. And a French dip

If nothing else, Elon Musk is extremely useful for discussing film history. Parallels with Thomas Edison and DW Griffith stealing credit, obviously, but he also neatly shows us why we differentiate between claims and product demonstrations vs commercial release.