* Large and noisy dog that he didn't know and which we had allowed into our house.

In Murphy's defense, he lashed out on the entirely reasonable belief that I was about to feed him to the monster.*

"When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough to find out what I had initially failed to understand."

"Students often turn to A.I. only for research, outlining and proofreading. The problem is that the moment you use it, the boundary between tool and collaborator, even author, begins to blur."

Yay! Biscuit is such a sweet dog. We loved having her for a couple months.

Uh-huh, it's bullet proof protected
Uh-huh, luxury appointed
Uh-huh, everything that you expected
Uh-huh, how did we get elected?

Turn on the television set
Watch yourself on the network news
Pick up the telephone and dial
You can talk to anyone you want to

Well, the red lights are flashing
They're crashing the car
It's a Cadillac, baby
Cadillac, baby

Completely insane... and yet also completely unsurprising from this bunch of dangerous incompetents.

We are currently fostering Biscuit. She's a sweetheart! Her eye operation is coming up soon.