may21 in idea barrages

1.) Just because a character that is a terrible human being has a few redeeming or interesting traits doesn’t mean you are owed that they suddenly turn out to be heroic at the end. In fact, that would be entirely a stupid cheat. Just like in real life.

2.) The Mets season was already over in March, when the ownership cut off the signings three free-agents short, still lacking for one starting pitcher, one relief pitcher and one outfield bat. This was just the final confirmation.

3.) You can’t talk about “harm reduction” in Boston, they’ll think you’re making a gravy for your pork chops.

4.) Saying you’re good at keeping secrets is a good way to get people asking you about your secrets which is a bad way to keep secrets.

5.) The other interesting thing about getting back into steady work again is finding out that someone invented a six-thirty in the MORNING. That’s wild. Six-thirty in the MORNING. Wonders never cease.

6.) The thing to do is compress a bunch of Milano cookies together so densely you can sharpen them like a knife then go around as a brutal vigilante, fighting crime with the catchphrase “Pepperidge Farm dismembers!”

7.) Since they are both spoken well of but also I never got into them because they seemed too dauntingly complicated to jump into them mid-stream, I like to think of Game of Thrones as “Babylon 5 with nipples and dragons”.

8.) “Richard The Third” but with Wolverine in the title role so that the Roman numeral three can be, like, jagged claw marks.