“Tastes a little like chicken.” Crap. I’ve always said I do no due diligence for any of my ideas because it requires diligence, which I am averse to. Hence the origin of this feature. It’s another thing when out of the blue it occurs to you that your idea has already been ideated. Allow me to explain. Yesterday, in a frenzy of slept-through-my-alarm shower activity, I plopped a healthy dollop of shaving cream directly in my mouth. It did not taste good. And I thought, “They should make flavoured shaving cream for just this reason.” This is how many of my ideas come about. Some mishap leads to a revelation. I also imagined there could be more sensual, south-of-the-equator applications for such a cream. And then the words of Hank Kingsley came into my head. “Tastes a little like chicken.” Crap. It was a fake product Hank pitched in a sketch on The Larry Sanders Show. I remember it distinctly because it was the first episode that Elvis Costelllo appeared in (and not the second, which introduced me to one of my favourite phrases, “Tally ho, Fuck Face.”) But because I’m lazy and because the subhead for the Ideas Free to a Good Home was “Ideas that Deserve to Live,” I’m sticking with it. Someone ought to make flavoured shaving cream. It doesn’t have to be chicken. Or coconut, as Hank preferred. I would settle for lamb. __ Ideas Free to a Good Home is a clearinghouse of ideas we’re too lazy to develop ourselves.
