I do this "regular" "feature" called Highdeas. Highdeas are ideas that seem to have been conjured up by people who have been smoking funny cigarettes. This edition of Highdeas is all-female because only girls have submitted Highdeas recently. I forgot to ask people to tell me if I could use their full names, so first names only, just in case somebody wants to be a teacher someday or something.
"Single servings of wine, but instead of in those little bottles, use Capri Sun style baggies. Wine for the girl on the go." - Megan
"Remember in high school when you wanted to skip class you would go to a specific area like the farthest baseball field or the KFC at the strip mall next door, to meet up with all the other kids that were skipping? There should be a LIFE SKIP LOCATION in major cities in America. Say you just got fired, or don't feel like going to work, or you want to skip that college midterm - everyone reports at 10am at, say, the SE corner of Tompkins Square Park. People can either loaf in the park getting to know each other or break off into group excursions ("hey it's so nice out - who wants to go to Coney Island?!?") Imagine all the people you would get to meet from all over the city. And instead of sitting at home alone watching The View, you'd be out having an adventure with others." - Robyn
"Was The Pixies' song Here Comes Your Man a response to The Velvet Underground's Waiting For The Man? And, if so, does the man know that he's gonna see a girl when he actually shows up, not a boy?" - Martha
"A book called COOKING FOR MR. POTHEAD: An Unconventional Courtship with Recipes.
All the recipes are for, like, snacks that you can make with minimal effort late at night using whatever is in the fridge, like a tortilla sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and sauteed in butter, but they are described as if they are the most fantastically gourmet frou-frou things imaginable, with lots of pretentious big words. I might actually write this book." - Emily
"A flipbook of Michael Jackson's transformation over the years. from young and black, to plastic and white. possibly ending the book as a Korean alien." - Rachel
"So it begins Friday night. Three other friends and I are sitting around, smoking our second joint that we think might be laced with cocaine. I feel so wired and twitchy, like I drank a pot of coffee. It's like the marijuana was caffeinated. We all become amazed with the idea of caffeinated marijuana and we think everyone would love it because they are always drinking energy drinks, it would be like the Sparks or Jagerbomb of pot... and we would become rich and famous and loved by pot smokers of all ages!" - Bridget
Fake iPOD Shuffle:
This would be a feature on the iPOD that allows you to make a playlist that looks to any observer like the iPOD is on the "shuffle songs" setting. It would be password-protected so only you would know. This would allow you to throw up your hands and say "I don't know why it's only playing my favorite songs that you hate, it's on Shuffle!" - Me
The other day I saw an ad for Coca-Cola and thought about ad slogans for cocaine. I only thought of two I liked:
Coke: Because you are the type of person to wear sunglasses indoors. You just don't know it yet.
Coke: Because your new friends are your real friends. - Me
(Do you have Highdeas? Email me with "Highdeas" in the subject line, and be sure to tell me if you want your name and/or link used.)
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