dec 30 in idea barrages

Oh, the abyss is going to stare back. It’s unavoidable from the start. The key is maybe, just maybe, you can make the abyss blink first.

Have we considered that maybe Grandma also say Mommy kissing Santa Claus and so he had to run her over to eliminate the witnesses?

Santa gets to sleep with any parent he gives gifts to for their kids, y’know. It’s in his Silente Nocta rights.

If Die Hard can be somehow said to be a Christmas movie, the Peanuts theme is definitely a Christmas song.

I could never pull off “himbo” but I’m kind of a “hambo” if you squint and I hope that’s enough.

A lot of people hate wordplay because it underlines how all language and most of their meanings with it are arbitrarily constructed. Double meanings are like sugar in their psychic concrete. I myself, however, consider wordplay absolutely pundamental.

Downton Abbey’s film on the PBS caused me to sadly realize how much of our pop culture comes down to people wanting to watch rich people have sex because they wish they could be having sex with rich people. 10,000 years of story tradition & they all just want Ross & Rachel. Blah.

Why call it “Compound Interest” when we could call it “Savings Shavings”?