Monday, September 30, 2024

BURNING QUESTIONS IN A UNIVERSE OF MYSTERY #79:


Should I cut back on the sweets this Halloween season? 

And if I do indulge, what are some tips and tricks for avoiding that troublesome upsurge in candy vomit?

What about ice cream?

Don’t you think it would be way more awesome if people set themselves up as free ice cream cone giver awayers as opposed to just dispensers of piddly pieces of candy?

Why don’t we live in a world driven by the Ideas People as opposed to the Status Quo Folks, eh?


Sunday, September 29, 2024

THE NEW OBVIOUS #12:


When a very young person’s not watching YouTube, they probably kinda figure that all the YouTubers are just all hanging out together someplace.


And then they grow up a bit and finally understand that’s not how that works, that everybody’s spread out all over the place.


Even if you consider a cluster of content grifters who have gathered in Los Angeles, right? L.A.’s so farflung, you’re still not likely to be in proximity to another YouTuber. Just not the odds. 


This young person grows up, reflects on how naive they were . . . and maybe they get a little bit of that cynicism going on, that we all seem to have about things.


Everybody isn’t taking a big break together when you can’t see ‘em on that screen in your hand.


Everyone’s most likely trapped in their own teeny-tiny little break time, each one alone with all their own shit to deal with, and no doubt dreamin’ of greener grasses and such.


You end up feeling foolish about the things you believed in your youth.


That’s just how you end up.


Feeling foolish about most things.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

THEME MUSIC FOR EVERYTHING #21:


Theme of Buying Shit in Stores: Freedom of Choice by Devo


This is another one that’s pretty self-explanatory.


You can never go wrong with Devo.

Friday, September 27, 2024

THINGS NEVER SAID #22:


“Say, friend-how much is that tumor in the window? That one right there, the one with the waggly tail. That’s the one. How much? They come free with every purchase of either an Aquaman or a Rebel Moon action figure? Hmmm. Can’t I just pay for the tumor directly and skip the plastic bullshit altogether? No? Huh . . . well then let me ask you this . . . why is it, exactly, that we must all live in a world of shit? Yes, you may phone a friend. I’m not sure I approve of you using a Miami Vice-style handbrick, but I suppose it’s less gauche than an Inspector Gadget-style thumb antenna-I’ll live . . . so what did your friend have to say? That it’s a world of shit because our portable communications devices have fundamentally distanced us all from in-person intimacy paradigms? Huh . . . I . . . apologize . . . for putting you through all that.”

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

THE NEW DREAM #32:


extravagant

fell

run

of luck


snap zoom into my mighty, armored face crackling with energy


that lightning bolt facial


it isn’t just that I can see through walls


now


it’s that the walls explode elaborately


at the pressure


of my sight


now


everyone is getting up to serious villain shit


trying to catch at least one of my eyes


trying to catch a spectacular doom, I guess


sure,

there’s the occasional smartass holding up a mirror


I just blow those up, too


gruesome practical gore effects


folks pierced many times over with long, shiny splinters


reflective shrapnel

fell

into

a reverie

about why it let itself become a killer

I’m the True Cause

already fading

a generation of mirror shrapnel

caught in a hell of ever amplifying self-recrimination

I’m howling

not to be forgotten

I write a book length confession

no one fuckin’ reads

I buy a library

fill it with many volumes of confessions

it’s burned up by the sunlight

weaponized

by a century-long Mirror War

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Monday, September 23, 2024

NOTIONAL HEADLINE #121:


J. D. VANCE SOUGHT FOR QUESTIONING IN CONNECTION TO WAVE OF HUMAN/COUCH HYBRID SIGHTINGS.

Sunday, September 22, 2024

THE NEW OBVIOUS #11:


If you hear me impersonating Charlton Heston what you’re actually hearing is me doing an impersonation of Phil Hartman impersonating Charlton Heston. But Hartman’s been dead for so long (he was murdered a decade before the older Heston passed on) that I get away with ripping him off. 


So sometimes obvious things don’t become obvious until we make ‘em obvious, y’know?


Sure.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

THEME MUSIC FOR EVERYTHING #20:


Level Up Theme: Ex Lion Tamer by Wire


That bond between you and the screen?


It must be serviced at regular intervals.


That’s when that really cool music plays.


So long as you stay on your grind.


You get to hear that really cool music, but not all the time.

Friday, September 20, 2024

THINGS NEVER SAID #21:


“Say, friend-you think I could hit you up for a handful of crumpled corporate charters? I’m looking to re-do the wallpaper of my Interior Chamber of Emotional Desolation. I’m trying to achieve my vibe goals for the month as you might have guessed.”


Wednesday, September 18, 2024

THE NEW DREAM #31:


armor all around

efficiencies spiking

output compounding itself

there won’t be much of me left

even if I achieve total output

I’ll be someone else

something else

good or bad

no way to know

but once you’ve been melting down malicious armored assets

for hours days weeks

you really want to go back to puttin’ up with shit at the bar at the worksite inside the sham marriage

put all nonessentials

into junk memory

press the button marked vaporize

or system equivalent as may be your local case

you have this dream

now

don’t be misled

by rear facing instrumentation

let it help you

sure

but it’s not in charge

I’m someone else

now

I have this dream

now

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

YOUR DRAWING PROMPT #34:


The free market small government think tank ideologue who gets the choicest contracts from his cronies in the federal machine.

Monday, September 16, 2024

NOTIONAL HEADLINE #120:


ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND THERAPY RECOMMENDED TO TREAT EXPLOSIVELY DEPRESSED ELECTRIC POWERED ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT VEHICLES.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

THE NEW OBVIOUS #10:


If Donald Trump is speaking-in public, in private, in a dream-he’s lying. That’s all he has, that’s all he is, that’s all he ever was: lies manifesting through a mouth.

Saturday, September 14, 2024

THEME MUSIC FOR EVERYTHING #19:


Theme of Random Battle with Low Level Enemies: 3-2-1 Contact Season Two Opening Theme (Extended Version) by Tom Anthony (extended by YouTuber Kevin L.)


High energy educational disco keeps you pumped during the Extended Repetitious Slaughter Phase at the idealistic beginning of your heroic JRPG career.

Friday, September 13, 2024

THINGS NEVER SAID #20:


“I’m covered head-to-toe in that Nacho Cheese Scripture!”

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

MANDATORY RULE #10:


Whenever and wherever possible potato chips and tortilla chips must be subject to a one-to-one substitution with juicy cheeseburgers. 


Bonus points for implementing this rule in situations of utmost impossibility.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

YOUR DRAWING PROMPT #33:


The anarchist who curiously refuses to smash the state which funds his adjunct professorship which pays for his middle class lifestyle.

Monday, September 9, 2024

NOTIONAL HEADLINE #119:


IN A SEARCHING NEW PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE, BILL CLINTON CONTINUES TO WRESTLE WITH THE DEFINITION OF “IS.”

Sunday, September 8, 2024

THE NEW OBVIOUS #9:


You don’t need to watch the movie or the TV show.


You can just imagine your own movie or TV show inside your brain.


You don’t need to buy that overpriced video game.


You can just imagine your own heroic journey inside your brain.


You don’t need religion.


You can just create your own god . . . or, you know, imagine yourself as a deity . . . inside your own brain.


You get what I’m saying.


But people don’t have any confidence in the powers of their own brains, do they?


But if they did have that confidence . . . they could save some money.

Saturday, September 7, 2024

THEME MUSIC FOR EVERYTHING #18:


Theme of Historical Accuracy: Giant Enemy Crab by Kitsune2


Plays whenever you have things that really happened.

Friday, September 6, 2024

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

YOUR DRAWING PROMPT #32:


Peak flower arranger on the edge of a nervous repair job.

Monday, September 2, 2024

NOTIONAL HEADLINE #118:


ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP: “I JUST GOT CREEPED OUT BY THOSE SEGMENTS WHERE HE HASSLES KIDS.” IN OUR WIDE RANGING INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE, MARIJUANA EXPLAINS WHY IT NOW REFUSES TO BE SMOKED BY BILL MAHER.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

LOADING SCREEN WISDOM #29:


ONLINE SPORTS GAMBLING IS A SUREFIRE WAY TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU SPEND LOSING MONEY USING THE INTERNET TO GAMBLE ON SPORTS.