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A retro computer gaming store that exploits our nostalgia for the past. An Emotional Babbages, if you will.

“Pearl necklace” is so crude when you could say “boobricant”.

Not a mid life crisis, just a mid crisis. Just feeling very mid.

Fueling intergalactic travel by having Hamburger Helper and Hamburger Hindrance annihilate each other, creating pure energy, all we have to do is invent Hamburger Hindrance.

Another day, another chance for something unexpectedly good to happen. (Pragmatism is hoping for the best but being surprised when it actually shows up.)

This is not a slight on Ginsberg, “Howl” is a great poem, but I sometimes think about how there’s hundreds of thousands of writers out there with something at least as good as “Howl” in them, that none of us will ever hear or see because poetry is so undervalued in our culture.

An album of raw visceral garage-punk covers of R.E.M. songs called “Autonomic For The People”.

If your biopic of Napoleon doesn’t cover, with dignity, his brief time in 1980s Southern California, what are you even doing?