june 23 in idea barrages

We’re thinking about this whole “Morbius 2: It’s Morbin Time” thing all wrong. What if it’s a movie about a fictionalized version of the making of Morbius, where Jared Leto is actually a vampire and is played by Willem Dafoe?

A food truck. That sells soups. And we call it “THE ALL-TUREEN VEHICLE”.

Arrogant prosecuting attorneys have the courage of their convictions.

Starfield hates Space Mondays.

Interestingly, if you have more than one Fonz, the plural is still Fonz. It’s like deer. One deer, twenty deer. One Fonz, twenty Fonz. You can have an entire cool of Fonz and the word is still Fonz.

A Dune themed Steely Dan parody “Any Muadib Will Tell You”.

Does the far-right have ANY self-awareness? “The Proud Boys”. “The Patriot Front”. All their organizational names sound like something a heavily-concussed 3rd grader would come up with after watching two-thirds of a Mel Gibson film.

Celebrity exists not for the celebrity’s sake, rather for the masses to be pacified against the pain of their lives of quiet desperation via vicariously living through our briefly venerated then quickly discarded false gods. It’s not a bug of our culture, it’s a feature.