j8 in idea barrages

If the Fourth of July is Independence Day, surely Thanksgiving is Codependence Day.

The older we get, the more we realize how much being “gifted kids” screwed us up. If we live until 96, the all of us, we’ll be drooling in rockers, totally convinced that we should’ve been famous because we aced the SAT Verbal section in 1996.

A “Who’s On First” routine between Super Mario and Hulk Hogan, predicated upon Hulk’s tendency to misuse the word “Brothers”.

“The Treachery of Images” but it’s called “The Treachery of Contracting” and it’s a drawing of a construction drill and the phrase “This is not a drill.”

I always head-canoned Jeff The Mannequin on Today’s Special as an ancestor of Data on Star Trek.

When you don’t have any dignity to begin with, there is little harm in losing it, I’m afraid.

“Because I could get away with it” is the worst reason to do anything and yet here we are, in a culture that celebrates this ethos.

It’s always been all advertisements, of course, this society has always been just a volley of endless competing advertisements but at least it seemed like they were advertising actual things to sell. Now advertisement isn’t about getting currency, ads are the currency themselves.