may 29 in idea barrages

So many ASMR videos on YouTube seem to be about getting shyly flirted with by a lady barber or masseuse. What does this say about our collective psyche, about our culture’s weird obsession with docile transactional intimacy? What do we want? What are we being told to want?

I look at the “birthdays” thing on facebook and realize, no, don’t send them greetings, they’re no longer living, the book of faces merely maintains them a ghost. The digital residue of a life. I don’t think our minds were ready for this, we’re barely two steps out of the trees.

A movie about a bee-themed super-villain called HONEY-BAKED HARM.

It’s not so much that hearts can un-break, it’s more that sometimes your ability to love can find a way to rewire the surrounding redundant arteries and veins to find a way to beat again. Healing is an erratic patch-work act but thank God sometimes it works nonetheless.

If I could edit audio at all, you would have to put up with a Beatles/Shrek mash-up called “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My DONKEY”.

“What’s that glop going on the dog’s neck?” twitched the nervous tick.

If Baskin Robbins doesn’t call its mascot Bascott Fitzgerald, someone missed a trick.

LESS ELIMINATION, MORE ILLUMINATION!