I was super excited to watch this Rick Astley video people keep sending me, but the link always turns out to be a bait-and-switch timeshare presentation.
Star Trek taught me that nobody watches movies or tv in the future. One might occasionally read a book, but it better be an old Earth classic (no later than 19th century) or some random made-up future alien shit.
I once rented a place on the ground-floor of a former multi-level house converted into apartments. The kitchen had a staircase that dead-ended at a renovation-added ceiling.
“The face of god will remain unknowable as long as the yoke of human indifference drags us down!” I proclaim, crapping my pants in this Walmart patio furniture aisle.
Giving directions like “when the wind blows northeasterly, you’ll come to an old mansion with a crone sitting on the porch—turn the angle her nose points, then continue until a frog hits you in the face. I’ll be the one throwing the frog.”
Getting some grumbling acquiescence and annoyed tones for asking the medical staff in this tiny room to please mask because I’m high-risk for complications from Covid.
There’s no such thing as “bad luck” when you break a mirror.
You’re merely experiencing the terrified energy leaking off inter-dimensional creatures loosed through the glass-crack barriers as they lash out blindly, frantic to return home.
The sun, heart-achingly in love with its children, blows a kiss towards Earth.
The coronal mass ejection flings magnetic plasma into the solar wind, dismantling the electrical grid and communications infrastructure across the globe.