oct 18 in idea barrages

The Exorcist reboot sounds TERRIFYING…ly unnecessary.

Did Carol Burnett ever do a gag where in the last skit of the show she was playing a zombie and in the outro when she tugs her ear, she tugs off an entire prosthetic ear? Seems like a gimmie.

Real talk, Utica: “Brooklyn Pickle” doesn’t sound like the name of a submarine sandwich shop, it sounds like the name of a physically impossible sex act that teenage boys gossip about on the schoolyard.

“Hat says you’re evil, you gotta go live in the evil dorm.” Not “hat says you’re evil, you can’t learn magic, it’s for the best”. Not “hat says you’re evil, maybe keeping you away from bad influences will help you change”. Nope. Hat gives you a key to Room 22 in the Evil Wing.

Here’s a riff on the Frankenstein / Frankenstein’s Monster dilemma you probably haven’t considered: yes, there is a difference between Dr. Spock and Mr. Spock but I’m pretty sure Mr. Spock has at least one of the Vulcan equivalent of a doctorate so maybe not.

The Utica Downtown mural should be a painting of a cross-section of people from all the various Utican cultural communities, all coming together as one to complain about the Utica Downtown mural. Nothing unifies the Mohawk Valley quite like complaint.

You learn so much more from failure than from success, if only success didn’t pay so much better.

When you hit the rumble strip, it’s not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you gotta veer a little bit to do things safe and true. Now, when your drivers side wheels hit the rumble strip, that’s when you’re in a whole heap of trouble. Know the difference between the two.