Category: Posts That Should Have Been Tweets

I just fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine: I responded to a Nielsen survey that was randomly mailed to my home about my television viewing habits.

Too bad I don’t watch much TV anymore! But many, many years ago, I would watch 1-3 shows every night, and then go online the next day to see their Nielsen ratings and lament over how unpopular my beloved sci-fi series were. Back then, I would have LOVED to be a Nielsen respondent and have some genuine sway toward being able to get certain shows renewed. Or at least, renewed with more budget. (I’m looking at you, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5.)

My past self would be thrilled.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Cook the food you want to eat in the world.

Compose the music you want to listen to in the world.

Draw the artwork you want to look at in the world.

Summon the archdemon you want to rule in the world.

Build the house you want to live in in the world.

I kinda want to make a Porydex clone for Cassette Beasts

Just to see if it would be as easy as I think it might be

A tragic realization: In the very near future, most people who read my short story It’s Always Friday will probably think its female “President Harris” character is extremely uninspired and blandly named… Except for the fact that I named the character and wrote the story way back in 2018, long before real-world Kamala Harris was on everyone’s radar, or even mine.

I chose the name by reading lists of common American surnames and looking for one I thought the average person could think sounds presidential enough to vote for, lmao.

(This post is a childish self-defense in advance. And also, maybe a brag I guess?)

Archim-eaties, a math-themed Greek restaurant

Back in high school, there was a kid who needed a fifth year to graduate. Someone asked him about it once and he confidently said he was “taking a victory lap.” To this day it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

One time I was daydreaming some fantastical scenario where aliens or government agents or whatever had to call upon me to save the world, but at some point in the daydream my self-insert character went “wait, this doesn’t make sense, this whole situation is just too implausible, I must be a character inside a simulation, I NEED TO BREAK OUT” and I was jolted out of the daydream, terrified of the fact that my mental construct of myself somehow realized it was a mental construct.

I want to read the isekai where the Wicked Witch of the East is reincarnated to Earth after being hit by Dorothy’s house