David Munro

i’ve looked for alternatives for several unhinged action set pieces. they don’t exist. it’s perfect.

my older brother told me those rhymes in 1972

What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb,
but the darkness of the womb?

“Neorealism rests equally on the acknowledgment that life is hard and the recognition that life goes on, that there is something in human nature that will persist in the face of defeat.”

- A.O. Scott, “Neo-Neo Realism”

Calling it now: Mark Cuban will be the Democrat’s answer to Trump in 2028.

we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology

I thought I’d heard all the ‘Seymour Butts' variants but then along comes Holden Hiscock.

They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.

I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. —Anais Nin

Television has a beginning, a middle, a middle, a middle, a middle, until the whole thing dies of exhaustion. - Joel Coen

story is like the iron sheik. it makes you humble.

when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers

Do everything by hand, even when using a computer. - Hayao Miyazaki

Plato warned that democracy's greatest peril isn't tyranny, but the intoxication of absolute freedom – where everyone has a voice, yet wisdom drowns in the noise of opinion.

Tactics is how you’re going to fight a gorilla. Strategy is don’t fight a fuckin gorilla.

Not all who wander are lost.

don't confuse generating heat with generating light

Satire is parody with a point. - Stephen Colbert

strive for infinite consanguinity

Woody Guthrie saw fascists as "dumb gangsters" out to exploit the common man

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. - Stanley Kubrick

Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit. - Vaclav Havel

i pull an all-nighter every night

God is a comedian playing in front of an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

trepanation is the process of cutting a hole in the skull

Depressor - super villain with crushing buzzkill powers. once left Hulk staring into the middle distance despondently after a famous battle

my aunt used to have her developmentally-challenged son put his hands on the radio during evangelical broadcasts

sinewy tough guys are “all gristle”