june 5 in idea barrages

For those of your obsessed with age limits in American politics, as if that’s someone one of the more pressing problems, just be careful what you wish for, that absolute record-setting moron Vivek Ramaswamy is 38 years old.

I don’t know how good a mash-up of PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE and FIGHT CLUB would go but “His name was Amazing Larry!” would be eminently quotable in pop culture.

I’ve been told that, in the early days, Burning Man was actually kinda fun but now that it’s just idiot tech-bro millionaires getting high in heavily-polluting luxury RVs, it’s hard to not laugh that their little Bitcoin Bacchanal got ruined by a rainstorm.

Weirdly, the three surviving rock show tee-shirts (R.I.P. Built to Spill shirt, I just wore you out) in my collection are all from shows at breweries. The rise of the brewery as venue in this area was slow but overwhelming.

A microscopic invasion from another planet! “Mercury in Tardigrade!” Coming soon!

Salt, pepper and garlic are, like, the RSTLNE in the Wheel of Fortune bonus round of cooking.

A zombie movie where the zombies are weightlifters from the local gym, making fighting them even harder, and it’s called DEADLIFT.

If you think about it, “opening acts” could be the phrase for sex films instead of the band no one heard of that plays first, it’s all down to random chance that it ended up this way.