1126 in idea barrages

1.) Water’s the universal solvent but short-term investing is the universal insolvent.

2.) Strip Thanksgiving of all the colonial mythology, go back to Lincoln’s idea of a plain day of secular thankfulness, that I dig.

3.) The dumbest pirate on a given ship was designated The Pillage Idiot.

4.) After a time travel mishap, a writer from 1869 & a closeted lesbian from 1959 try to survive as roommates in 2015 in JULES VERNE & SHIRLEY.

5.) Two woman scientists pose as men to try and avoid the endemic sexism in science in the hit new comedy BOSON BUDDIES.

6.) Is today CONSUME TO PROVE YOUR PATRIOTISM WEDNESDAY? I get all the horrible shopping hype dates mixed up.

7.) The baking term “stone ground” always makes me laugh. I imagine it spoken by a caveman, explaining something through repetition.

8.) Charlton Heston refused a role voicing a California Raisin, asking with incredulity “A planet where grapes evolved from man?”

9.) Kids who think sitting around listening to The Cure is depression are adorable. When you graduate to Good Eats on youtube, you call me.

10.) Will Smith wants to be our 1st Scientologist president now. I know that would be worse than Trump but I don’t know exactly HOW.

11.) Hipster zombies won’t even think of touching Borg brains. Not 100% organic, doncha know.

12.) Problem is the machine runs on rage. Rage against it perpetuates it. Might make you feel better in the short-term but no vector to change.

13.) I wanna tell these cynical “outsider” politicians “No, I have no training as a mechanic, that’s WHY I should fix your car, I’m an OUTSIDER!”

14.) Few things are black & white full-stop right or wrong. Most binaries are simply false. But hazelnut coffee can go straight to hell.

15.) So it turns out the greatest love song ever written is by Electric Light Orchestra. Yeah. I wouldn’t have guessed either but here we are.

16.) When you crash & you burn & you’re not “back home for T’giving” you’re just “back home” the last thing you want is that Wednesday barcrawl.

17.) lifehack: every attractive person you do not know personally on Twitter is either a bot or rents photos of an attractive person.

18.) Since we created Al-Queda fighting Russia and ISIS fighting Al-Queda, I wonder what horror we’ll create with THIS overreaching botchjob.

19.) If Putin nukes Ankara tomorrow, how many years before we go back to calling it “Turkey Day”?