se17 in idea barrages

1.) Just once, one of these fake survival reality shows should end with a title card: “The star starved to death. The crew’s craft service table was ten feet away but we had to let him die for journalist integrity.”

2.) There’s nothing wrong with lying as long as you’re honest about it. But the moment you pretend it’s the truth, you cross a thick dark line over into the monstrous.

3.) I always think I’m a lot worse or a lot better than I actually am, at about a 50/50 ratio. It is a bit of a rollercoaster.

4.) If you got a problem, adaptation can solve it, ten thousand generations while selection evolves it.

5.) Cooking bacon is a lot like loving me, it is a complicated, confusing and frustrating process but the payoff is pretty rad if done correctly, provided you have the patience of a saint and the time on your hands.

6.) The tedium of citation and footnotes is what pushed me away from academia for life. I can tolerate the act of research but the added process of showing my work was just mind-numbing frustration. I’m not saying this as a positive, I’m just admitting it’s my weakness.

7.) Your rap about internet memes will be entitled “Cats Rule Everything Around Me”.

8.) Monoculture didn’t die, there was never monoculture. Subcultures get more awareness now but there was always Wild Stuff going on in bars & cafes & salons, even when 30 million people were watching LASSIE. Only an illusion that you were sold as real has died.

9.) Is this the week I write the story of how I got tricked into breaking into a national monument when I was in college for my flash fiction group? It’s always sort of been my emergency parachute, in case of writer’s block.

10.) It’s great but you have to admit that “Lumpia” should be the name of a low-level enemy in Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy instead of a delicious food.