july 17 in idea barrages

EMPATHCIZE! It’s like AEROBECIZE or JAZZERCIZE, except we just put on spandex and try our best to understand the feelings others.

Scratch the surface of anyone laboring so hard to live a performative try-hard “distant cool sexy guy” persona & there’s a creepy sex criminal “pick-up-artist” beneath. Not just famous guys like Russell Brand either, you smell that narcissist grease, you know the monster beneath.

Why call it “garlic” when you can call it “vlad blocker”?

The most metal name for a band ever would, of course, be Dumlaut.

The difficulty with a set-back is to try & figure out how to spin it into something you can build off of, for future personal growth, not just let it beat you down in a manner compounding even further. 2 steps forward after 1 step back, to say. How one does that I’ll never know.

DON’T LIGHT MY HEARTH / MY ACHY BREAKY HEARTH / THE CRACKS WILL SURELY END IN FIRE / CUZ IF YOU LIGHT MY HEARTH / MY ACHY BREAKY HEARTH / IN FLAMES YOU’LL CERTAINLY EXPIRE

DU / DUMONT / DUMONT WAS / DUMONT WAS FOURTH NETWORK

A Jewish deli / Indian food fusion restaurant called SITTING SHIVA.