sep 16 in idea barrages

Developing your writing is like building furniture on a deserted island. Before you can even have the tools to construct a bed, you have to make the simple tools you’ll use to create the more complex tools first. Don’t be discouraged. There is no shortcut to good work.

If you updated Slaughterhouse-Five for 2023, Montana Wildhack wouldn’t be a Playboy model, she’d probably be an Onlyfans or Twitch streamer but, weirdly, Montana Wildhack would still work as a Twitch streamer name. Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

I feel like “Punk Lemonade” is either the name of a hair-dye in 1995 or a nail polish in 2022.

In Soviet Russia, science donates to your BODY.

In a doc file, the letters themselves are nearly nothing, no matter how long you prattle on, text takes up a comically minimal amount of memory. The heavy lifting is not in the bits and bytes of letters, rather in the invisible bulk of all that formatting. So too for life itself.

On horror movie sets, they should call the continuity person “THE SCRYPTKEEPER”.

Like, theologically, I understand why a person could call it “Good Friday” but were Jesus here, I wouldn’t call it that to His face. Like… Necessary Friday. I think Necessary Friday would be the best way to put it directly to the man from Nazareth.

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in New York, the first person in the Utica area to make “Turkey Joint” candies with actual joint in them will probably make a few quick bucks.