sept 21 in idea barrages

You will write your Goonies fan-fiction under the pseudonym “Chunk Tingle”.

There was, in the middle 1940s, an English teacher at Berkeley High School who taught both Philip K Dick and Ursula Le Guin. Tear down Mount Rushmore, goddamn it, and erect a giant statue of her or of him.

Malcolm Gladwell is writing 10,000 books in the hopes that after all the practice he will eventually write a good one.

It’s too bad Gonzo had a harem of chickens and not parrots, else we could label his practice “pollyamory”.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting. Remembering doesn’t mean reopening wounds on martyrdom’s cues. Forgive yourself the past, not by forgetting by wallowing or by clinging to impossible dreams, either. Remember by doing what you can to make things better as you can today.

Whatever else to be said about capitalism, it adapts. Conforms to any vessel to fit while maintaining all basic features. Christianity was founded knocking over banks with axes, declaring taxes fine because money’s just temporal yet somehow we got the Prosperity Gospel soaking little old ladies for retirement checks in the name of Jesus Christ. It sure adapts.

When in doubt, assume you are not the exception. Especially when someone treats most people like crap. You probably will not be the one they treat right.

“Eileen sighed…” “Which way?” “Which way did I what?” “Which way did you lean?” “I’m talking about Eileen, not me…” “What?” “What?” “…nevermind.”