jan 6 in idea barrages

I wonder how much it would cost to get Eminem to rap the lines “My name’s Barney Rubble and I’m here to say / I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!”

Why call it a “filet o fish sandwich” when you can say “an overstuffed cod piece”?

Don’t valorize your trauma. It isn’t cool, it isn’t empowering, it isn’t edgy. You are wonderful, not because of your trauma, but in spite of it. You are wonderful for your heroic struggle against it. You beat those who hurt you by moving forward not by wallowing in it. You are heroic.

I bet the people who make whisper videos don’t even understand the irony of being sponsored by Audible.

If everyone decided one day to put the needs of others ahead of their own, everyone would have it pretty good. You think that sounds crazy but, really, that’s just each person deciding to abandon selfishness, to put love above fear. If you make that decision, we’re one closer.

The British royalty, at this point, is just a really well-paid reality show that you can’t quit, the money’s great but the only way you leave is via state funeral. You buy the ticket, you take the ride. It’s a shame people can be born into it, of course.

You can’t learn the truths in the born-rich orgy-pits, ivory towers of avarice, laurel wreaths suffocating brains. Pity the landed gentry their shallowness of understanding, while you learn through the holy act of help. Truly, they have their reward in full, up front, in spades.

Have you ever been working on organizing a large number of things, something you’ll only have to do once, and you realize near the end of the project, you’ve gotten very good too late at a skill you’ll never use again? That’s how this life feels too.