birthday barrage in idea barrages

1.) In this nightmare, there was a formerly aristocratic family living in the ruins of a mansion and I tried to help them see through their madness in the rubble… and it turned out the thought-dead patriarch was a vampire living in the basement. I defeated the vampire but in the vampire’s death, there was an unleashing of magic and I fell back through history, through the ages, witnessing the history of the family. Everywhere I popped in, I thought I was witnessing the beginning of their vampire line until I saw something else that made it clear they went back even further. Through New York, through London, through Rome, Sparta, Babylon, back past the kings of Mesopotamia, past recorded word. Always another set of priceless artifacts of human history, always another vampire progenitor, always further back to go in the legacy of blood and horror. (I don’t like sleeping.)

2.) In America’s history, there have always been two things. A legacy of monstrosity and the potential to do better. Make your choice.

3.) Please inform if you know anyone radicalized in an “alt-right”. Nazi, KKK, “Proud Boy” or other white nationalist terrorist cell.

4.) Wage Love But Carry A Knife In Your Pocket, Just In Case

5.) Why do with five SAT words what you could do more effectively and elegantly with a single curse?

6.) Buy a bunch of American flag stickers the size of license plates. See a truck with some racist bullshit on it? Cover it up!

7.) When people are faced with proof that they are monsters, they will find any damned way to pretend they aren’t as such.

8.) Someone ACTUALLY said “Trump is fighting the entitled ones!” on facebook. Trump. The born-rich draft dodger. How brainwashed.

9.) The best bad pick-up line is “Did you fall from the sky? Because I’ve always wanted to have sex with a woman who can fly.”

10.) Bad humour has no bounds. Good humour knows when to punch up and when to shut up.

11.) D&D is improv theatre with math.

12.) How did it take me 38 years to realize no one ever called anyone a “rascal” and it was always a bowdlerization of “asshole”?

13.) When Yosemite Sam fired his guns in the air, he was shooting up right in front of us all.

14.) Some times call for bards singing songs of love, others for skalds roaring praise of those who beat back monsters.