feb 7 in idea barrages

The “power of positive thinking” is a confidence job, sold to you so you’ll sit around dreaming and wishing instead of getting in the way of powerful horrors. The Power of Pragmatic Action, though, that I believe in.

The first rule of Night Flub is don’t autocorrect Night Flub.

A game on Steam about childbirth where you can get the Crowning Achievement.

At Rockafire did Chuck E Cheese
A stately pizzadrome decree:
Let robot bands and balls of skee
Strike up a fearsome symmetry
Charging but a modest fee.

The difference between a “goal” and a “plan”, I struggle with this difference, like so many aging GenXers suffering from “gifted and talented syndrome”. The fallacy that you should just be able to have a plan and excuse it and if you can’t you’re a failure. This life is so much more complicated than that.

Obama, multicultural, consummately educated, born to humble means, what America aspires to be. Trump, spoiled son of a Klansman slumlord, serial rapist, spewing racism with glee, what America conspires to be. May our bright light shine and our dark shadow fade away.

Orville Redenbacher was a true pop icon.

Biden’s avuncular measured Mister Rogers-esque delivery is such a relief. “Relief”. What a word. More important than “joy” when you really really need it.