no27 in idea barrages

1.) People who act oblivious aren’t always, really, sometimes we know the worst is probably coming but we act like we’re assuming the best because acting tough won’t change anything if the worst is inevitable and assuming the best might will it into being.

2.) The thing about anxiety is, yes, you can learn to overcome it most of the time but it never becomes easier. It’s as scary every time and it hurts just as much every time, it’s just that… you can push through it, sometimes, until the next time.

3.) Love can’t save the day all by its lonesome but love can make the day worth saving.

4.) The automated telemarketing solicitor robot just said “you guys are harder to get ahold of than it is to get my husband to cook dinner, ha ha ha” and I’m starting to think Western Civilization may have been a mistake.

5.) We write in hope some part of our essential self will end up carved into culture’s firmament and may be passed on beyond our death and, much as with genetic progeny, sometimes we value these traces for purely narcissistic reasons. Nonetheless, it sometimes still helps others.

6.) Home renovation, ripping out the things that no longer work and putting in new things instead of ignoring them or papering over them with amateurish ad-hoc solutions because there’s simply now no other choice. This is a metaphor for my life, doubtlessly.

7.) Sometimes when I’m anxious I will tell myself “just treat it like a performance” because that’s the easiest thing I can think of in the world and, hell, sometimes it even works.

8.) Your lore bard will be named Elvish Costello.

9.) At the salon, doing Brazilian waxes is an entry-level position.

10.) The most obvious way to work a Peter Gabriel song into a parody about school lunches is, of course, salisbury steak.

11.) A line of Incredible Hulk themed frozen meals called Angry Man Dinners.

12.) A great alternate title for Twilight would’ve been DOWN FOR THE COUNT.