feb 7 in idea barrages

If you want to study accents, you’re going to have to watch a lot of people making their vowel movements.

In Soviet Old Navy, performance fleeces YOU!

One of the beauties of the English language is that “inept” and “in-app” sound almost exactly the same. The language knows, even when we don’t.

The parasocial relationships of “influencers” were presaged by the home shopping channels and the local morning radio shows. It’s all about letting yourself believe the slightly famous are your friends you chat with, to fill some hole in your life.

Mitch Albom may be able to tell you the five people you’d meet in heaven, but if you don’t, I can tell you the two people you’d meet in hell: one of them will be doing an Austin Powers impression, the other will be doing a Borat. They will try to sell you on bitcoin for eternity.

The sequel to ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES could’ve been ROBIN HOOD: BURGLAR KING.

The Smirnov Double Inversion, however, takes it to its logical extreme, flips the joke to sadness and the country to us, now. For example: “In modern America, dream lives you.”

Sometimes a parody comes into your head out of nowhere. You just say “Doug Funnie” and you realized you can say it with the same cadence as “God Money” in HEAD LIKE A HOLE. The English language is such a usefully ragged tapestry mutt. Little threads going everywhere.