au31 in idea barrages

1.) Tonight I learned that the host of “Supermarket Sweep” also played the son of the Howells on “The Harlem Globetrotters Visit Gilligan’s Island” and in some small way the world makes a little more sense.

2.) The Rand Threshold is the point in conversation with a right winger about economics where, if honest, they’d say “Look, I just want feudalism back because I think I’d end up a Lord.”

3.) A parody of Wham’s Jitterbug about the dangers of working in an arts and crafts store called Glitterlung? You could do like a Jethro Tull thing too, I guess.

4.) If you think David Wright is going to ever play major league baseball in a meaningful way again, I’m going to also have to break it to you that the waitress at Hooters wasn’t actually into you.

5.) It takes a pillage to raise a pirate.

6.) More than anything, companies on social media, I want you to understand that if your ads do manage to cheat past adblock, their presence makes me actively less likely to buy your thing out of annoyance.

7.) Take count of all the things that are only part of your life on momentum, because they’ve always been there. Imagine all of them gone at once. What does your life look like then?

8.) Today, I found out there is a rapper who goes by the stage-name “Lil Pump” and I can only assume he’s trying to reclaim his sexual inadequacy as a positive.