mar24 in idea barrages

1.) Making gravy from scratch brings up fond memories.

2.) Your album of death-metal covers of R.E.M. songs will be called “Problematic For The People”.

3.) You don’t want to make the cool kids jealous of you with your success. That would make you too much like them. Instead, make them angry that you succeeded by leaning into your uncool weirdness. That’s the goal.

4.) I haven’t been able to enjoy a horror host show since my dad passed away. It was so much a… thing that we shared. Doctor Who’s the same thing. They feel… less without being able to talk to him about them.

5.) When they say you’re ripping your heart or your soul out and spilling them out on the page or the stage, they’re either mistaken or purposely self-aggrandizing. You’re creating a reflecting pool of the world and finally glimpsing your soul in that mirror.

6.) His sex life was like warm weather in the Adirondacks, so long ago it feels like it never happened at all.

7.) I feel like we’re one more budget cut away from Utica not even admitting that potholes are a bad thing, rebranding them as safety-enhancing speed limiters.

8.) What little optimism we can muster in this crap-sack world is precious and should be used on our own personal lives to get out of bed in the morning. Don’t waste it on sports, realism is just fine for sports.