nov 30 in idea barrages

Real talk: how many disability fetishists gonna stare directly into the eclipse with just the WEIRDEST boners?

The only thing worse than test-marketed-within-an-inch-of-its-life by-committee schlock is unhinged-out-of-touch-auteur-no-one-can-say-no-to schlock. Somewhere in-between are where art and craft meet collaboratively and that’s the best of cinema.

“Say what you will about the kid,” he said, his voice rising with enthusiasm, “the kid’s got spunk!” And then he stated flatly, “and I am indifferent toward spunk.”

SHUTTER ISLAND except Leo’s character thinks he’s Paula Deen and it’s called BUTTER ISLAND.

In the end, I’m the only person I have any control over how nice they are, so I try my damnedest to be nice. It ain’t much but it’s all I can do, so it’s what I do. The world needs more nice and here I am.

The fun thing is trying to explain why it’s called “podcasting” to people too young to clearly remember what an iPod was. “It was like a cellphone that doesn’t cellphone, just the music parts.” “No!” “Yeah, we might as well been using stone tools.”

Tractor Supply should have a clothing off-shoot called Rural Outfitters.

Anyone can envisage a parody of “The Humpty Dance” about Disney’s Grumpy The Dwarf(TM), even record it, but the bit doesn’t work unless Disney agrees to it and creates a richly-realized hand animated music video to accompany that beautifully-terrible idea.