july 23 in idea barrages

I look back on Bowie’s lyrics and how much of his work was as kind of a modern musical de Tocqueville, an outsider’s eye writing about America and understanding it better than we can ourselves could from the inside.

Almost as bad as intrusive thoughts are extrusive thoughts, where all you can mentally picture is Play-Dough’s Mop-Top Hair-Shop.

The new trend is dipping testicles in glitter and they call it “disco balls”.

An R.E.M. songs based cook-book called AROMATICS FOR THE PEOPLE.

Jesus in D&D would definitely be a Lore Bard with maybe a Life Cleric dip or a Divine Soul Sorcerer dip (race: asimaar, certainly, mostly human with a divine spark) so, if you think about it, He would’ve been the very first Charisma Carpenter.

The difference between having hope and “getting your hopes up” is subtle but important. It’s hard to hang onto the former, sometimes, when you keep getting let down by the latter but… here we are. Trying to hope but not get our hopes up. It’s a hell of a thing.

Set your story in the fictional Buffalo suburb of Idawanna, New York. Fill the cast with lazy contrarians. YES, YES, LET THE PUN FLOW THROUGH YOU.

An important law of toys for my general generational situation: glowing in the dark was a 100% value-add. Do kids still understand this? Do they realize that the coolest thing in the world is glowing in the dark?