“Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t play!” I was thinking about the Disney movie Air Bud from 1997 and imagined what steps the coach would have to go through today if they wanted to train an impressive beast like that. I asked everybody’s new friend ChatGPT about what…

Heating up the house with a figurative bonfire of creativity & inspiration. Crackling embers & sparks catch the thermal updraft & cling to the texture of my expectations. Ash drifts along the floor & serves to choke off the distractions. Burn, brain, burn. #BusinessPoetry

Marvin Finch is sitting with his friend Lucy: “I ate WAY too much last night. There were these two bugs on a cotton blossom; I had already picked off a dozen at lunch but I just HAD to have another. One was a big fat juicy one and another was smaller and not as filling. I know I shouldn’t have, and I feel really guilty, but …” and he trailed off. “Then what?!” Lucy chirped impatiently. “I chose the lesser of two weevils.”

Olivia went to San Francisco for the Navy ships & Blue Angels air show. She stood by the wharf, and as she was marveling at the battleships, a jet flew by very close — dousing her with ocean water mist. As a result, the hair above her eyes had a never-before-seen magnificence, which she termed “Eyebrows on FLEET”.

I worked at Pizza Cove on First St. in Gilroy CA 89–90. We served primarily softball teams and one guy was a regular who would plunk in about $10 at around 8 PM when they came in from the games and put in a variety of songs for his team…