feb 25 in idea barrages

“If everyone’s important, no one is” is not the lesson to walk away from this life with. “If you’re important, everyone is”. That’s the key to this whole brief ride.

HOT TAKE: I dislike Cincinnati chili too but if you take away the way its misnamed & call it “oddly-spiced Greek ragu”, it’s suddenly a lot less Actively Gross, more just a matter of taste. It SPECTACULARLY fails at being chili but it isn’t meant to be chili, we just misnamed it.

Yes, LOTR is partially about ethnic tribalism but it’s a fantasy story where their ethnic tribalism isn’t about skin tone so when you cast human actors with different skin tones, it doesn’t mess anything up. If they cast a hobbit as 7 feet tall with pointy ears THEN complain.

The song “What I Got” came on and I wish Bill Sublime was still alive so I could explain to him why the money was all gone. It’s because a few lines later, you said to give it all to charity. So you probably just did that and forgot.

Yeah I was mashing Dinosaur Jr’s “Feel The Pain” and that “Melt With You” song together as I drove home, in my head. It’s what I do. It works!

If you ever open a rehab for the fishing addicted, please call it BAIT WATCHERS.

Maybe if they called him something other than The Grinch, he’d be less grinchy. What’s his real name, Bill? Steve? Hey, Whoville, maybe if you had just called him his full legal instead of your cruel nickname, this could’ve de-escalated years ago.

In the Mime Universe, he’s Bill Nye The Silence Guy.