apr22 in idea barrages

1.) The train at the end of the tunnel sees you as a darkness in the terrifying agoraphobic great wide open.

2.) The biggest lie in telling a story is pretending that you the teller are not there or, even worse, that you can somehow be impartial. Don’t make yourself the story but do lay your biases and process bare, context is everything and you are part of that context.

3.) We don’t all get the rebirth that spring-time promises but that doesn’t mean not to try. Every once in a great while, something amazing happens. We live on this earth for many reasons but one of the most important is to bear witness to the rare amazing.

4.) “There are no atheists in foxholes” seems less like an argument for organized faith and more an admission that, yeah, when up against the wall, the human imagination can come up with all kinds of crazy forms of bargaining.

5.) Part of why I could never work in advertising is that I believe “Ellio’s - It’s Technically Pizza!” would be so refreshingly honest that people would buy the hell out of it.

6.) There’s probably some good stories in finding out the last time historically-famous people had sex before their deaths, the logistics of that coupling and why no longer until the abyss.

7.) They should’ve released the Tolkien movie this 4/20 weekend so the trailers and hash-tags could’ve all been like “Tolkien Up!”

8.) If I’ve learned anything about struggling with privilege, it’s that allyship is not a status or an identity, it’s a process. I don’t get to call myself “an ally” I’m a person trying my best to be an ally, often stumbling but trying to be better each day.

9.) Sometimes I watch PRINCESS BRIDE, that part where he explains how he slowly built up a resistance to iocaine powder through years of micro-exposure and think “well, no one’s ever gonna be able to kill me with Tylenol PM”.