Spoon of Prosperity

Princess Bubblegum:  (deadpan)  Peeps will never starve in my eternal empire.

- Adventure Time, Red Starved

The food that's meant to suck

CXK:  (mouth full) Rasch umor shukenugets please.

Mom:  You want some more chicken nuggets?

CXK:  Yes.

Me:  Heh!  Sounded like he was asking for "Suckin' Nuggets".

Mom:  Suckin' Nuggets are getting to be pretty popular among foodies these days.

CXK:  Also can I have some of those suck things?

Avant Gardener

The paramedic thinks I'm clever cause I play guitar.
I think she's clever cause she stops people dyin'.

-  Courtney Barnett

Temporarily embarrassed

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
 - John Steinbeck

Punchy

Charles: When will my medicine punch? 

Adrienne:  You mean "kick in"? 

Charles:  Yah.

Loading the Language

Apparently Robert Jay Lifton came up with the term:

"The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand."       (Loading the Language)

See also"thought-terminating clichés".

Meanwhile back at the sportsball club...

Not my entire feeling on sports, but kinda fandom in general.

Moral Injury

So came across this today.

In other words war is evil and full of inherent sin, even when it seems necessary/justified.

Personal Uniforms

Few thoughts:

1. I have considered something like a "personal uniform" from time to time.
2. This article has some good and relevant thoughts on the subject.
3. Although I'm not in to dresses, I like the roll-up sleeve and neck of the dress depicted.
4. The graphic itself is also pretty neat in general.  Made me think of this post where David Malki points out Aaron Draplin's discussion of logo (and product) design inspired by old time design principals.

On video games

Feel like this can apply to a lot of forms of expression:

Fuck Video Games