n11 in idea barrages

1.) In retrospect, maybe I should count my blessings that failed in Los Angeles when I was younger, all the moral quandaries I’d be indirectly connected to now had I “made it”.

2.) I will cop to being out of touch: I honestly thought Greys Anatomy had been cancelled eight-to-ten years ago.

3.) All I’m saying is, now THOR 4 can’t have a “please hammer, don’t hurt ‘em” joke and for that, we are all diminished.

4.) Life is a constant state of being ransom-wared by your own biological processes.

5.) Try to imagine a person so gallingly cruel they thought “we need a term that will make being a good person sound like it is bad… I know… VIRTUE SIGNALLING!” Impossibly, that person is out there somewhere.

6.) His grandfather changed their last name from Drumpf to signify their long-standing and continuing family tradition of believing that all things of value must end with p.

7.) LESS CONTENT, MORE CONTENTMENT

8.) If stoners get 4:20PM, at least allow those of us with worried minds that cannot shut off from the anxious cycle 4:20AM. We need something and almost no one is using it, anyway.

9.) No, actually being healthier DOESN’T feel better than a McNugget tastes. They are awful but they are awful delicious and if I don’t end up spending my extra years helping a lot of people and finding a great love, I’m going to feel ripped off. Coulda been eating McNuggets.

10.) The more random information you introduce into your life, the more you learn & experience from all angles, the more complicated your inner workings get, the better you can pretend that you aren’t just a collection of crude needs but from the chaos, something with a will, a soul.

11.) Ah, this damned human race and our lives like a minnow trap. Smart enough to get into trouble, not smart enough to get out of it, left to thrash in this liminal mesh with the bread we so chased.

12.) They always find a way to let talent forgive a man’s misconduct, Woody Allen raised his own step-daughter to be his next wife and they still let him make movies. A woman, they will crucify for the sin of ambition alone. This human race disappoints me so bleeding much, sometimes.

13.) I never thought I’d response to the news “Yet Another Star Wars Trilogy Announced” with resigned exhaustion but here we are in The Bad Timeline. As a kid, I would’ve been overjoyed. After the prequels, disgusted. Now just… a slow tired exhalation.

14.) One of the few Italian stereotypes that applies to me is my temper, I have a very slow fuse to anger but once I am mad, it… lasts. I can’t shut it off. I seethe and I seethe and it lingers forever. What most gets me is when I perceive people disrespecting me by not respecting the people I hold dear. Insulting me directly, I can usually laugh off but when I feel like you disregarded me by disrespecting those close to me, I can really go off. It’s not a Berserk Trigger exactly but it maybe setting off a Berserk Timer.

15.) If you believe CK’s victims and Moore’s victims and Weinstein’s victims and Allen’s victims and Trump’s victims and Polanski’s victims but you go into tortured conspiracy loops to not believe Julian Assange’s victims so as to preserve your worldview, that’s on you.

16.) My yearly reminder: whenever a bigot tells you “it’s not Happy Holidays, it’s Merry Christmas!” ask them very innocently “you don’t celebrate New Years?” It’s fun to watch their hateful little minds break.

17.) Whenever I see a “PT Cruiser” mentioned, I briefly forget it is a car-type and think “what’s a part-time cruiser?”

18.) I just can’t buy that CK didn’t know “when you have power over a person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question”. I don’t buy that he was ever that unaware or stupid. I don’t buy the “I’m A Dumb Ol’ Dad Who Wasn’t Woke Yet” defense. It’s a lie and he’s still lying.

19.) Something I hope the left learned from ‘16 & ‘17: you don’t start a Grassroots Movement by running a vanity 3rd party presidential candidacy that props open the door for monsters. You start in city halls, county & state legislatures, and work your way up from actual grassroots.

20.) Most people with metal detectors on the beach are really just tab hunters.

21.) Remember when they call it “the gig economy” a gig is a spear people use in the night to kill tiny helpless frogs unaware.

22.) Now that the season of lawnwork with pop is ended, the treadmill is fired up. 35 minutes, 1.15 miles, until my sciatic left hip started barking at me. A start.