Ramble On: Summer 2025 Edition

Playlist Link: Ramble On Summer 2025 Edition

1. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. 

2. So…the little Coco food delivery robots…do we (as drivers) have to stop at a stop sign and wait for them to cross as if it were a human being? If they are just sitting there deliberating, or whatever their little robot brains do…how long do we wait? What is the protocol here? 

3. Despairingly romantic. 

4. Perhaps a nap, then by the time I’ve awoken something else would have happened. Perhaps a shower, then there will be other news. 

5. By saving certain species, even keystone ones, are we impeding the natural growth/progress of the planet? These species are only vital to the world as we know it…but does that make saving them the right answer? Is the world always supposed to stay as we know it now? Oh just kidding. We’re attempting “de-extinction” now. You’re right. My bad. Why go forward when we can take 40,000 steps backward. 

6. In 2010, a chalupa supreme from Taco Bell was $2.69. Now it’s between $5-$7 depending on where you live and order from. 

7. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. 

8. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

9. Stop rewarding short-sightedness.

10. Buy me Ilford HP5 and tell me I’m pretty. 

11. PSA: when looking for a skin care professional, don’t go with the trendy one. Big skin care companies design new products (trends) to damage your skin health within a few years so they can sell you more new products to correct the problems they gave you. Look for a professional invested in your individual health and furthering their education through legitimate scientific studies — not one interested in making mega corporations even more money without realizing how this industry really operates (or how your skin actually functions). 

12. Tell it slowly. Tell it right. 

13. I’m not bionic, but thanks for saying so, Ponyboy. 

14. “We’re raising baby veal.” - Kevin James 

15. Do you. But please leave me out of it. 

16. That one time while camping when a raccoon tried to mission-impossible its way into the tent for some chips. 

17. “Over-specialize and you breed in weakness. It’s a slow death.” - Ghost in the Shell 2.0 

18. One foot out the door. 

19. Taming Minotaurs. 

20. “Back in my day” every single website in existence wasn’t constantly trying to collect your data…

21. My favorite part about philosophy is how after most of the texts where someone rambles on for 50 or so pages (despite how the point could have been easily made in only five), they almost always have some equivalent of “but I don’t know though — don’t quote me on this, it might not work”. And then for the next god-only-knows-how-many-years, a bunch of people proceed to endlessly (mis)quote something they’ve most likely never even fully read. Philosophy is great. 10/10. 

22. Bear Grylls…you’re cute as a button and I could watch you all day, but I’m going to yell at you for doing unnecessary and dangerous things all in the name of making entertaining TV. I sincerely hope that people don’t take you as serious survival guidance. 

23. I was. And then I wasn’t. 

24. I’ve discovered what my second favorite “f” word is. And only one other person on this planet will ever get to know. 

25. Still strongly believe that all politicians should have to wear a suit with their sponsors on it every time they’re on TV, like they do in NASCAR. 

26. I shoot in black and white, but the gray areas are what usually make the photo. The gray areas are my favorite.  

27. Humanistic approaches that favor neither misogyny nor a lot of modern day feminism. Are you human? Are you a living thing? Cool, then I want better for you. 

28. Mark my words, after years of market research indicating an increase in acceptance/purchasing things when there are “cute” aspects to an ad (eg: babies, puppies, etc.), and if the food delivery robots are any indication, then our robot overlords will be nothing short of adorable. It starts with WALL-E, but it’s going to end with Terminator. 

29. I’m a little concerned that “making history” right now seems to mean doing everything that sci-fi novels and movies told us not to do. 

30. Totally thought that a commercial for some sort of medication said that a side effect was “bitching” — turns out, they said “itching”. 

31. Blue hour > golden hour. 

32. You’re cutting into my lying on the floor and contemplating the world time. 

33. Porn addicts are the new cigarette smokers. 

34. Friendly reminder that even Marcus Aurelius openly suffered from anxiety. And that, while he did write some gems occasionally, he also wrote to get rid of all your books. Twice. Consecutively. Because not all writing is a golden egg. Citing sources for the gym bros: Meditations, Book Two, Among the Quadi at the Granua, Verses 2 and 3. 

35. Most human babies look like the little alien from Mac and Me. 

36. Know that even if I haven’t responded to your letters, I’ve kept them. They’ve traveled with me for miles and miles and will continue to do so. 

37. The cat is happy in the sun. And so am I. 

38. “The stars winked down their cryptic Morse and he had no key to their cipher.” — Ian Fleming, “Live and Let Die” 

39. It’s good to see that you’ve been writing. I hope more of that is happening privately, off screen, without an audience. 

40. All of the fennel plant is edible. Enjoy. 

41. I have an ongoing inside joke with someone about Lightening McQueen and now I occasionally feel the need to tell people that something is “so not Kachow of them”. 

42. Ah yes. Nespresso’s latest line…depresso espresso, manic macchiato, cortisol cortado, and the fan favorite, emo cappuccino. 

43. The 4th of July. 

44. I will never forget the time I was seated at a restaurant counter and a waitress came over and fingered half a dozen olives out of a jar and onto a plate for some customer without washing her hands before or after. 

45. Not everyone will find their way back. 

46. There are moments in my life that I wouldn’t want to be defined by, so why would I condemn you that way? 

47. If you can’t even control yourself around chicken nuggets, then you probably shouldn’t own a firearm. 

48. “The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” — John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

49. Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre. 

50. “Golfing” is not technically a word. You played golf. You did not “go golfing”. 

51. Learned masochism as a survival instinct. 

52. Tip your butcher. 

53. Do or do not, mother fucker. 

54. You’re an acquired taste…like noble rot. 

55. How could one ever feel lonely while living in a city? Open your windows. Let the sounds of your neighbors wash over you for a moment. Revel in the clank of pots and pans as someone makes dinner. Dance to the blaring car alarm. Smile as your neighbor says something inappropriate too loudly while talking on the phone. Air out your lungs while you air out your space. Life is everywhere. You just have to remember to let it in. 

56. Properly tempered chocolate snapping is my favorite sound. 

57. Telling people that furniture you own has hidden storage compartments = saying that the dress you’re wearing has pockets. 

58. If a man is willing to be violent and brutal to you at home or in bed, but not violent and brutal in the interest of protecting you against others, then he’s not a man. 

59. The art of making French toast at 4 a.m. 

60. Stake a claim babes. 

TTFN, 

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