mar13 in idea barrages

1.) One of the hardest things to admit is that some do their best work with limiters on, not off. Sometimes being confined by rules & regs focuses you while wild riffing lets you be an inconsistent jerk. It’s why I use a Temperance tarot card as my bookmark, to remind me.

2.) Whenever I hear a youtube video say “link in the description” I imagine they’re talking about a Lincoln biopic and end up disappointed, nah, it’s just a link to some other youtube video.

3.) If I ever start a heavy metal band, my stage name will be Gordon Heavyfoot.

4.) Your debate over Scarecrow’s intellect will inevitably devolve into strawman arguments.

5.) My hair, still dark-chocolate straight through at thirty-nine but two days of stubble and the five or six grays on my chinny-chin-chin poke through to remind me, I do not get forever.

6.) When a hipster gets a cut, they won’t use Neosporin, they will only use Retrosporin.

7.) The Titanic hit a Heisenberg, we know that much, but exactly where and how fast it was going, well, we’ll probably never know.

8.) I can’t believe I hadn’t realized that big tech these days are almost a one-to-one analogy to the railroad trusts but, yeah, that’s where we are now.

9.) I realized tonight what the central question of my old sasquatch-in-L.A. novel draft is. “Are you prepared to pay the cost a magic life will demand of you?” As I rewrite, I need to remember, this is the lens I am seeing it through.

10.) It’s hard to “not feed the trolls” on social media, when social media is essentially writing upon the blank spots on bags of troll feed.

11.) We can chart a map of America any number of ways, point-to-point. When naive, I want to chart it out in rock song places, the corner in Winslow Arizona to the snow upon Raton, when angry, from tragedy to tragedy, Orlando to Columbine to Sandy Hook.

12.) Then there is of course Twilight Savings Time, the hour you save by realizing jokes about how bad “Twilight” was are out of currency and you never have to think about that drek again.

13.) Whenever I see a concert advertised for a band where a key member died and they’ve replaced them with some rando but the ad says “Blah Blah Blah Band LIVE” I always think “Not without a necromancer they’re not.”