july 27 in idea barrages

Why call it “public domain” when you could call it “I.P. freely”?

Once again, I won the Boilermaker by sleeping in until 1PM in an air conditioned bedroom twenty-some-odd miles away. I’m really on a streak! Zero dehydrations, zero bloodied nipples, zero traffic jams!

What with the code names and the random raids on “The Man”, weren’t Robin Hood and his Merry Men just Heynonnynonnymous?

If you believe Sesame Street is behind a conspiracy, you can always tell the disbelievers “That’s just what Big Bird WANTS you to think.”

There’s a really good pun about the Mormons colonizing the desert Southwest and the phrase “Utes were wasted on the Youngs” but probably I’m not the one to parse that one out perfect.

In death, we all become the imaginary. Perhaps the inverse is true. Perhaps the contrapositive as well.

It’d be an interesting exercise to write a story where 9/11 was actually a collection of the worst aviation accidents in history, tamped down by a vast FAA conspiracy with a history-altering claim of terrorism to cover their own asses but… I fear people would believe it real.

You know what’s a really great sarcastic phrase to yell at someone who has pissed you off? “Have YOURSELF a MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS!” It just works.