may 8 in idea barrages

In the Southwest, there are dust-devils. Up here, in the early spring, there are “leaves protected from rotting away by the snow” devils instead. It’s an astonishing thing to see.

Whenever I hear an ad for the lawyers “Martin Harding and Mazzotti” up here, I briefly hear “Imzadi” because I am that much of a nerd.

Jimmy Fallon laughing at himself for nothing particularly funny will be the fanfare with which I am welcomed to hell.

You have nothing to prove through this madness. If you can manage to find a silver lining of self-improvement, that’s awesome? But this is deadly madness, if you get through it, you deserve as much a medal as the person who writes The Great American Novel through it.

On the one hand, there are few actors more typecast than the dude who played the sidekick on “Tool Time” in “Home Improvement”. On the other, commercials for tacky gadgets are decent paying gigs.

Actually, the best song to do a COVID-19 parody of would be Built to Spill’s “Aisle 13” but most of you don’t listen to grumpy old GenXer music like I do.

I do wonder, if we’re ever able to do a detailed analysis of all this after the fact, how much being a member of a tight faith community will have been a major vector, that closest communal contact and that most stubborn against closing.

In the land of the numb, the feeling man is pauper and prince all at once.