feb 11 in idea barrages

There are worse ways to spend your day than trying to convince people that the song “Take The A-Train” was a coded message about doing butt stuff.

Abbot and Costello but it’s The Hobbit and Elvis Costello.

The phrase “Doing the Lord’s work” always fascinated me as it implies, perhaps rightly, a God either unable unwilling or absent so here we are, left holding the bag. There’s only us little bald monkeys to do the job of caring for each other so, what the hell, we’ll try our best.

Near the end of a fancy-dress ball, they announce the two-minuet warning.

Being forced to be low carb is a pretty no naan-scents way of life.

Mario barges in, confidently certain he can overthrow the lizard king or giant ape or whatever. Luigi slinks forward, cowardly, scared out of his mind, but it must be done so he tries to do it anyway. I can’t help but appreciate the latter far more than the former.

If you think about it, the human nose is just a double-barrel snot gun.

I mean, “Happy Allahdays” is probably not the BEST way to tell someone they should enjoy their Ramadan but, like, the sentiment is there.