all hallows barrage in idea barrages

Sell a knock-off salad dressing called Randy Newman’s Own.

Your talent baking rich eggy braided breads will land you in the challah fame.

If anime superfans are called “weeaboos” are Ren Fest superfans called “thee-aboos”?

Matthew Lesko got his stage name when, as a child, his mother refused to buy him a Riddler costume at the store and yelled “MAAATT-hew, let’s go!” then built his entire life around the horror of that childhood scar.

It isn’t, I think, about pretending that the possible bad things down the road couldn’t happen. It’s about allowing yourself the possible good outcomes as well, about weighing those against each other, not just assuming the worst, presuming the worst.

You should’ve called your high school extracurricular science group The Culture Club.

Halloween is always bittersweet on social media for me because everyone’s talking up Hocus Pocus huge and I’m like “I love talking about Vonneguts more obscure work!” then I realize, nah dog, they mean that Bette Midler movie.

A more explicit version of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” called “Santa Claus Is Going To Town”.