april 18 in idea barrages

The Science School Bus, using super-science to bring students into strange realms so as to teach them how magic works.

Why call it “sex lube” when you can call it “oil du soiree”?

The borders are not the land, the map is not a people, the dot is not the city, the line is not the road, the abstraction is not the reality, the word is not the meaning. They can hint toward some larger meaning but no more than a mile marker is the distance to the sea.

The children raised in the circus all want to run away to join the cubicles. Life’s funny like that.

Your Bard died from taking 99 points of falling-in-love damage.

What if The Learning Channel bought the rights to air the sitcom Scrubs, just to mess with the real TLC?

I wonder if Mad Magazine ever called the band “Godspeed You Black Emperor” “Godspeed You Blech Emperor”.

Has there ever been a potato chip mascot called The Potato Chimp? If it hasn’t happened yet, we should be ready for it now.