I do copyediit over the phone from the manuscript rather than sit there and be insulted by the AI, or spend any time at all attempting to toggle it off. Nobody wanted this and nobody wants this

Looking for the Hindu Love Gods (Warren Zevon + most of REM) version of "Raspberry Buffet" on Spotify and coming up empty.

MAGA: Vaccines are worse than slavery!

Also MAGA: Slavery wasn’t so bad, why do you people want to teach kids about slavery?

Cornelius, reading from the Sacred Scrolls

“Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Ye, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him…”

Rod Serling, PotA 1968

A good rule of thumb: If a surveillance technology exists, it will eventually be weaponized and abused.

Bunker Rule No. 1: The people in control of the bunker are lying about what’s outside the bunker.

When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there who said you could petition Anguirus with prayer

It's really easy to get discouraged, so if you are interested in being discouraged, I can give you some quick and simple tips.

plants are just like animals, except in the ways in which they are not.

Sorry, but I find the expression "Merry Christmas" offensive. "Happy Holidays" is also unacceptable. The same goes for "Good Morning" or "Hello" or any type of greeting, or even eye contact, before lunchtime. Or at any time.

And just like Sally Field, we like you, we really like you!

Animal Farm was published on this day in 1945. Everything Orwell warned us about is now referred to as Orwellian, in an irony that can only be described as Kafkaesque.

I expect this will be how I will be remembered and eulogized.

the true story of Radiohead’s OK Computer is that Thom had a laptop but every time he’d say “where did I put my laptop” the band would say “Thom it’s called a computer” just for a laugh, but then one day he beat them to the punch line and said “My laptop OK COMPUTER” and they all laughed. Even Ed