128 in idea barrages

1.) TRUE CONFESSIONS: I still don’t know what the goddamn poke thing on facebook means or is for.

2.) I’m surprised that Uber and Lyft don’t call their oppressed gig-economy-serfs “Venture Carpoolists” or some such.

3.) If you only create Donatello’s dialogue, you’re just a staff writer.

4.) She had to make gallons of mayonnaise a day, so bad was her obsessive emulsive disorder.

5.) For Pokemon there is no Fight Club, there is only… Club.

6.) The bureaucracy around filing all the stuff to renew my health care is a deep anxiety trigger but I got through it. I know this sounds like a silly thing to say but barreling through it without having a freak-out is an accomplishment for me.

7.) Do a magic trick with lingerie, just so you can get to the punchline “A Bra! Cadabra!”

8.) An M. Night Shapoopie film about The Twist dance craze where the twist is that it is the only way to kill aliens.

9.) I’m the best at all the things I’m not terrible at.

10.) They build Potemkin Villages of success to sell degrees and get cheap assistants, for a little while.

11.) Just before the fall of the Roman Empire was Peak Roman Empire. (That awful thing with the Oregon “militia” was Peak America.)