au9 in idea barrages

1.) It was hard to tell if they were a hair-metal band or just being ironic, the whole thing was incredibly glambiguous.

2.) What was my generation’s obsession with irony but an intellectual version of the larger world’s environmental destruction? Extracting the short term juice of feeling clever, just like coal or oil, leaving the whole damned thing empty and ruined on any longer scale.

3.) Are Nick Cave fans called Stalactites or Stalagmites?

4.) The word “queue” is part of a conspiracy by The Vowel Council. Their sworn enemy is Jason Mraz.

5.) But what about the people who live in a yellow dom-marine, huh?

6.) Has there been a parody of the Beatles “Martha, My Dear” making fun of how bad Batman Versus Superman was yet or…?

7.) Neil Degrasse Tyson finding out there is a pet food named “Science Diet” and his hands reflexively typing “Well, Actually…” into the empty air.

8.) I find it darkly humorous that a generation raised on the rad Ninja Turtles heroically eating ‘za was also convinced by the shyster Alex Jones that lizard people were eating pizza in Washington and that it was a BAD thing.