june 1 in idea barrages

Just because someone else refuses to accept your shared humanity doesn’t give you the right to do the same. Your commission to be humane is not thusly discharged. Violence only begets violence. Some of these people deserve jail, no one deserves the guillotine. Ever.

If you didn’t name your home movies from your Greek vacation “Acropolis Now” why did you even go to Greece?

I just realized that the Jeopardy College Tournament is being sponsored by a loan company. Of course it is.

A book is a movie you get to see in your head. Everything else is and should be gravy. If you read a book as the appertif at the head of a movie “feast” you will always be disappointed.

I don’t believe in “waiting on the muse” but I do know that I need a certain amount of new stimulation to get new ideas. I can feel my brain eating its own tail like a tortuous ouroboros of thinks already thought through. Basically all I got are puns and current events.

A dating site for accordionists called Squeezr.

Why don’t we call microwave ovens “defrigerators”?

The daytime may be ugly or glorious, depending on the conditions on that given day, but the nighttime, she is always beautiful, eternally uniformly beautiful.