apr 4 in idea barrages

Build a drum kit entirely out of Gatorade containers and perform as The Electrolyte Orchestra.

Your musical about the behind-the-scenes drama behind a cooking show will be called PUREE FOR HOLLYWOOD.

The ideal name for an all-woman punk band is, of course, “Kristin Glover”.

The cult of the Instant Expert is toxic in all forms of populism, on the right AND the left. On the right, anti-intellectualism, on the left, insidious distrust of experience. The idea if someone’s telling you this isn’t all that easy, they must be corrupt as opposed to having learned from trying.

The worst thing about social media is the way it isolates people into little corners where they can mutually convince each other of impossible things then waste astonishing amounts of energy on things that could never be, letting the monsters run wild in the meantime.

If you’ve made fun of Trump fanatics for refusing to accept the truth of a situation and instead falling back on their devotion to Dear Leader, that’s good, but you gotta turn that mirror on yourself or else you’re damn nearly as bad as they are.

You can’t logic your way out of reality, you can’t lecture your way out of reality, you can’t cajole or condescend or debate your way out of reality. It’s what’s sitting there in front of you, like it or not. It’s not waiting for the right set of magic words. It just is.

Principal Skinner looking through the empty ruins of a 4-H Club, almost achieving self-awareness. “Why there is no hunger for a scary drastic immediate revolution here, either? Am I so out of touch?” The moment passes. “No, it’s the voters who are wrong.”