apr15 in idea barrages

1.) I just realized the ultimate “You Wanna Feel Old?”: there are people on the road, right now, as we type, legally driving cars who were born after the attacks on 9/11/2001.

2.) Many people have had much much harder lives than I have. I’ve had some rough times but between those rough times, I’ve had it easier than most. Still, the last couple of months have been the hardest of my life and, while things may eventually get better, that’s not going to change for a long while yet. Gotta just keep pushing through. I’m sorry if I had been absent or loopy or angry. We’re just all pulling together to try and survive all this. And we continue to.

3.) All things considered, the themes and events of the movie LOGAN may not have been the best movie for today, for me, despite it being really really good.

4.) The next time some person who’s old in their mind and closed in their heart tells you how bad the lyrics are to pop music these days, tell them to dial up “Do The Hustle” on their Victrola sometime. Pop music has always been largely repetitively vapid, is and always will be.

5.) I wonder if someone in the area should book an event to counter-programme that corporate nu-metal shitshow going down in Syracuse in July. Some kind of Corkathon?

6.) Do you know why we look out for the weak, the sick, the tired, the impoverished, the strays? Because at some point we’re all going to be that way, if we’re even lucky enough to be that. All the bootstrap survival-pack lies we tell ourselves won’t change that. We are all strays.

7.) Genius and four dollars gets you a latte at Starbucks. An I.Q. of 73 and your slumlord daddy’s millions, you get to sit in the White House. It’s mostly just luck. Hard work helps if you were already lucky to begin with but it’s mostly just luck. Smarts mean blessed little.

8.) Yelling out your window for people to go away is antisocial media.

9.) Oh boy, all these death-worshipers running around so happy we’re blowing up brown folks overseas. Bet they’ve all got stacks of faux-military “challenge coins” in their desks that they certainly didn’t earn in service. Jesusing Christ.