7 bad ideas
Ever write yourself inspiration notes and upon later reflection have zero idea what you were telling yourself to do/remember, or in my case, write about?
Me either. Ok yes I do.
And for your browsing pleasure, here are 7 notes I jotted down in my phone’s ‘blog’ folder that I have no clue where I was going with. And yes, I will probably still write about them someday. or tomorrow:
- Dust orange.
- That’s it. I just wrote dust orange. What??
- Explaining God and Satan like Rachel Zoe.
- Whatever it was I thought I had stumbled upon sounds like a bad idea in hindsight.
- Cool stories to tell at parties.
- Like I need help with that. Did you know that my name means ‘refreshing one’? Or that my mom owns a revolver? See? Small talk goddess.
- Country music punchlines
- They do all kinda lead up to a punchline, huh? I’m keeping this one.
- Fancy a french?
- Ummm?
- Left hand man
- The right hand man’s understudy?
- When in chrome
- Google should pay more attention to me.


A favorite of my own:
Sewer tuba player
Carousal riding Indian
And I know exactly where I was going with that.
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admin Reply:
November 29th, 2011 at 10:56 am
totally stealing both of those solid gold nuggets
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I wrote to myself: Think about being more thoughtful.
I’m pretty sure it had to do with Christmas.
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I’ll try to help your recollection with my knee-jerk reactions to what a few of these topics might mean.
Dust Orange: Maybe you were going to write about the crop dusting of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Chemtrails maybe?
Cool stories: If you package your cool stories using an easy to remember mnemonic (like HOMES for the great lakes), then we could easily recall them and tell them as our own at parties. Could get dicey if two of your readers are at the same party both claiming their names mean “refreshing one” but toss a revolver reference in there and no one is going to question it.
Left hand man: Is the drummer from Def Leopard ever a topic on your blog? Perhaps he should be.
When in Chrome: Self confessed Chroman here. I know I’m not helping, but that’s all I got.
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