328 in idea barrages

3.) Maybe it’s not that madness and art are directly linked, it’s more that art is the evolutionary benefit we manifest to mitigate the advantages we lose due to madness.

4.) Let’s work on replacing “pics or it didn’t happen” with “science or it didn’t happen” in our culture.

5.) The best we can hope for from social networking is a future where the myth of flawless living is dashed by all our permanent records.

6.) Asking for proof doesn’t make you a cynic, it means you’re probably at least mostly sane.

7.) to the tune of DAY-OH: “Baio, Ba-a-ai-o, no one cares ‘bout your politics, bro”

8.) Make a drink etiquette app selling “custom solutions for solution customs”, confused venture capitalists will just give you their wallets.

9.) If I ever start that rent-a-poet service, our slogan will be “put a bard on it!”

10.) Brainy was dumb as hell & screwed everything up but they let him believe he was smart so he’d have an identity at all. Saints, those Smurfs. He would’ve just been Glasses Smurf without their patience.

11.) She mourned her newly discovered allergy to tomatoes. “Arrivederci, Romas.”

12.) Recontextualize “Waiting for Godot” where Godot is there, just off-stage eating, and the leads are servers discussing his lousy tips.

13.) I had this lovely but intense dream where I was able to deprogram a bunch of selfish closed-minded bigots just by sort of cornering them and forcing them to discuss things rationally. By the end of the dream, the world was improving by butterfly effect but I’d also realized it was a dream because I knew there was no way you could get people like that to not either bolt or get irrational. Still. It was nice for a little while.

14.) The “risk” of something that never happens is not a legit reason to further oppress an already oppressed group. Bigots KNOW transwomen in mensrooms are at infinitely more risk than women in restrooms w/ transwomen. Tho they play dumb, bigots WANT that. (I don’t like calling women who just happened to have been born male-bodied “transwomen” but it was the only way to make a 140 character tweet clear.) They want cover for their violence so they pretend there’s violence in the other direction. I am so disappointed when I read people on facebook or whatever who don’t get this, people who otherwise seem relatively open-minded but sort of blindly buy into the false logic of the “our little girls are at risk!” trans-panic bullshit. People who aren’t consciously bigoted but just aren’t self-examined enough to realize that shit doesn’t happen and it’s just a power ruse. It really bugs and disappoints me when people don’t spend five seconds to consider the realities of oppressed categories they’re not a part of.

15.) If a raccoon could be totally tame and disease free, they’d probably be fun pets, they’re sorta cute.

16.) Would a religiously observant Muslim astronaut simply pray in the general direction of Earth or would it be more ritually complicated?

17.) Whenever I see the name of the Met “Conforto” I want to whisper yell it like “El Scorcho!” in that one Weezer song.

18.) What accent quirks irrationally bother you the most? When a heavy southern accent renders “boil” as “bowl” I wanna rip my ear canals out.

19.) I have things to follow up on but I’m trying to give myself the holiday weekend off and… that’s just making me MORE anxious. Isn’t that always the way.

20.) An important advantage of pets is being able to look less crazy when you’re talking to yourself. “No no, I was talking to the dog.”

21.) Eddie Murphy was in a movie where he wasn’t in a fat suit and I briefly didn’t recognize him .Don’t make money your focus, kids.

22.) While I’m live & let live about kinks of course I guess I have a particular aversion to furry stuff as it’s Cronenbergian body horror to me. It’s like… that THE FLY gross transformation stuff is some of the rare stuff I actually have to look away from in movies so it’s just very hard for me to wrap my mind around it being sexy to some people I guess.

23.) Out of the corner of my eye in my facebook feed the word “paganism” looked like the word “priapism” and I did one hell of a double take.

24.) After two months of dieting, not used to a holiday eating. Blaring headache.