sept 23 in idea barrages

I wonder if the Australians got revenge on us by advertising “Coors… American for Beer” on their native shores.

Your terrible rap-metal song about Super Mario Brothers 3 will be called “I Did It All For Tanooki”.

I am a big fan of reasonable takes that can never go viral like “The new Matrix movie doesn’t look like it would be interesting to me but if you’re looking forward to it, I hope you enjoy it.”

Whhhhhhhhen a chunk of your thigh goes in a sea-snake guy, that’s a moray…

In the end, social media isn’t so much Plato’s Cave as Plato’s Caverns, a tourist trap out at the waning edge of civilization. Walk through, watch the shadows, pretend they matter, learn the meaningless difference between stalactites & stalagmites, buy a pennant in the gift shop.

A shoegaze song called “Apathy in the U.K.”

A Counting Crows parody about the Martian Manhunter called “Mr. J’onzz”.

If our culture regarded fame as a distasteful necessary-evil associated with being well-remunerated for doing good work instead of a desired end unto itself, imagine how much more we’d get done and how much healthier we would be.