july 17 in idea barrages

In the next season of Futurama, because of the lag between animation writing and animation output, will we get a by-then outdated Morbo The News Monster “It’s Morbo Time” joke?

Anyone who doesn’t see the way that separating government from religion improves and enriches both establishments only believes in either as a path to power, not as paths to organizing our inner and outer worlds.

Sometimes I think about the outsider artists who suffered through life, how we revel in the work their torment created, what we may have “lost” if we could’ve helped them be happier, more stable & how… their brilliance still wasn’t worth even a fraction of that awful pain.

Don’t go to the Bank of Ireland and refer to the banker as “the ginger bread man”. They don’t take kindly.

A Bill & Ted where they go to the far future and bring back some Fremen of Arrakis to watch them be horrified by the water discipline at Water Lou’s.

A food truck. Called. THE HAMBULANCE.

And then sometimes all your brain is good for is singing to the tune of “Black Betty” “WHOOOOOOOOA, brown rice it’s, ZATARAN’S, WHHHOOOA, brown rice it’s, ZATARAN’S, New Orleans had a child, ZATARAN’S, its spice was quite mild, ZATARAN’S”.

I wonder how many kids starting their first metal band decide that “War” is the best name for a metal band ever (it would be) and then are disappointed to find it was already taken as a name by a relatively mellow classic rock outfit.