sept 26 in idea barrages

A semi-autobiographical novel about being a burnt-out former Gifted and Talented late-Gen-Xer in the post COVID hellscape called “The Trauma Bums”.

A creation bard who worked as a sideshow barker before he discovered his magical potential, so his friends nicknamed him “Art Carny”.

In most places, very few people could pick Yukon Cornelius out of a crowd but up in the North Pole, he was a miner celebrity.

AND THEN I SAW HER FACE… AND SHE’S A FACE-HAVER… SHE’S GOT A FACE… NO DOUBT IN MY MIND… SHE’S GOT ONE! SHE’S A FACE-HAVER, IGNORE THE PALAVER, PAY NO MIND… YEAH I SAW HER FACE! AND SHE’S A FACE-HAVER

Why say “I’m funneling beer” when you could say “I’m guzzle-loading”?

I don’t know who the “Randy” was in the amazing Built to Spill song “Randy Described Eternity” was supposed to be but I like to believe, I CHOOSE to believe, it was the late-Eighties MTV character Randee of the Redwoods.

Can we call the kind of person whose entire world is destroyed by a mermaid being played by an actress of African descent a “broflake”? “Broflake” seems like a fun word.

A cover of the Mike Tyson’s Punch Out theme in the style of Radiohead and you call it “KO Computer”.