feb15 in idea barrages

1.) Maybe you’ve mistaken power over others for a freedom of your own. Maybe you’ve mistaken a lack of responsibility to help your fellow humans for a freedom of your own. They look like freedom from a distance but are freedom’s twisted shadow selves, there’s no good there.

2.) Some minor gods, you can evoke their power and bring their influence into the world, just by saying their true names, such as the Greek god of lazy mediocrity, Bazinga.

3.) With a romance holiday coming up, I just wanna say: remember, the person with whom you really share love won’t be your perfect idol who you always feel like you gotta impress, it’s the person you can comfortably feel like your true self around.

4.) Do Superman’s super-senses give him Immaculate Perception?

5.) Performing as a Rockette seems pretty uncomplicated day-of-show but in the preparation, there is a whole lot of legwork.

6.) Soon we’ll reach the point of absurdity of elongated election cycles where it’ll lap itself and people will start announcing for the 2024 elections in late 2019, like rich folks applying for the exclusive pre-schools before the kid’s even born.

7.) You know, if you’re REALLY all so sick of Valentine’s Day, you could just make me so rich and famous that my half-birthday is a national holiday that overshadows Valentine’s Day. You can do that. You can make it happen if you hate Valentine’s that much.

8.) This report on the death of the Photomat with the rise of the digital camera is a developing story.

9.) I just realized that those hairless wrinkle cats look like a pig that just went on an intense crash diet and now I can’t unsee it.

10.) Ask for some of that paella for friend is eating and then yell NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH IMPOSITION!

11.) Today’s song for Ollie the dog was to the tune of “Feels Like The First Time” and went “DOG’S GOT A FAT BUTT, DOG’S GOT A VERY FAT BUTT”.

12.) When they declare a national emergency because of a made-up crisis involving minorities but we’re supposed to say they’re not vectoring toward fascism.

13.) Every time I see the ad for White Claw Hard Seltzer, I think it says “White Clam” and the idea of clam seltzer is so gross that, even knowing that I’ve made the mistake, I’ll still probably never buy it for that reason.

14.) If I could “clear the cache” on my brain occasionally, as one does a web browser, I’d probably be, like, 40% mentally healthier.

15.) You didn’t “lie”, the “truth of your experience has changed since your last statement”.