Bart the Bear has his trainer's entire head in his mouth.

Terrible Ideas

by

Dan Jewett

Kilroy is watching you.

Black and white photo of bluesman Son Seals playing his guitar on stage.

The bad axe.

I’m supposed to be a big jazz fan but I realized today I don’t have a single jazz track on my PMP and it’s been that way for a while. Seems like my brain just wants as much pure shred as I can feed it. Jack White just killing ‘Death Letter.’ SRV bringing it in waves on ‘Can I Have A Talk With You.’ (Speaking of which, if you haven’t seen this Son House video, it’s Bad Ass.)

So one thing leads to another and it’s Son Seals. The Bad Axe.

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Album cover. Show Southside leaning on a bar lined with shot glasses.

Southside Johnny - I Don’t Want To Go Home. One of my all time favorites.

Facebook is an environment that promotes brevity if not succinctness, and the preferred method of quick self-expression would appear to be the top five list, followed closely by brief questionnaires that quickly associate us with some cultural icon representing our true self. “If this were a parallel fantasy-adventure life you would be Gandalf!”

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Name tag which reads, Hello! My name is Ever, Greatest

You don’t have to do that anymore.

I’ve been working on some web applications lately, that have a large “person” component.

Most web apps probably deal to some extent with storing people’s names, even if it’s not their main focus. (I’m trying to imagine how many database tables around the globe might record in their rows and columns some version of “Dan Jewett.”

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