oct 4 in idea barrages

“So why are we going to start World War 3?” “We gotta defend Saudi Arabia from Iran, bro! 9/11, bro!” “Wait, who were all the funders and most of the suicide bombers in 9/11, again?” “Saudi Arabia, bro, but don’t worry, we have always been at war with Westasia!”

Clone Mark Ruffalo 22 times. Start a football team called The Ruffalo Bills.

The exploitation of para-social relationships by con artists on social media is the exact same phenomena as the exploitation of para-social relationships by con artists selling patent medicines & goat gland surgeries on early border-blaster AM radio stations. There is zero difference.

On a long enough timeline, we will get to a Shrek sequel where Mike Myers has to say “you better Shrek yourself before you wreck yourself” and it may be punishment enough, finally, for THE LOVE GURU.

You have no idea how long I thought that in Radiohead’s “Creep” the lyrics included him calling himself a “widow”. I was like “what is that a metaphor for?”

If you’ve exhausted yourself at vigorous play, you have fun yourself ragged.

Imagine some edgelord actually doing it, getting into Area 51 and getting just far enough to see… a bunch of old moth-balled stealth aircraft experiments… before getting dragged away to a jail that cannot be legally named.

DC could nick the Marvel plot about The Vision trying to start a suburban family, Martian Manhunter and The Vision are basically analogues in some writers’ approaches to them, and call it “Keeping Up With The Jonzzes”.