Column Chronicles: Even more things I think

Even more things I think

Frank Cotolo
September 9, 2021

My mind is always working. I am given to so many thoughts about so many things that as hard as I try I am unable to document them all. I decided that this year, over the course of a few blog posts, I will document some of the things I think and share them with readers.

On a walking bridge, it is impossible to call one side the front and the other the back because anyone walking across it could start from either side and where you start is the front.

I truly believe that no one on Earth will live long enough to know if there truly are other forms of life in the universe. Even if some form of life is verified, I truly believe that no one on Earth will meet other forms of life in the universe. I truly believe, though, that there truly are other forms of life in the universe.

My girlfriend showed me a photo of her neighbour's garbage. It was wrapped up in five sections as if it were a dead body. Her neighbour said, "Since I have started packaging my trash like this, my neighbors respect me."

Last week I watched all three Godfather movies in reverse order. It was like a whole new experience, like The Godfather and The Godfather Part II were flashbacks.

Trees fall in forests all the time and no one hears them, so there's the answer to that question.

A close friend of mine overdosed on Placebos. He's doing fine now.

In the original Willie Wonka movie, the one with Gene Wilder, why isn't Charlie's family British?

Sometimes I sit around, especially on extremely hot summer days, and I try to find multiple ways to use the terms tool belt and cattle prod in the same sentence.

I was thinking about my ex-wife. When I met her I said, "I don't want to sleep with you." She said, "Good. Stay awake."

Can someone be arrested for cruel and unusual punishment? If so, who determined what is unusual?

What makes a "Golden Age" of any subject?

If this land is your land and this land is my land, I assume we co-own this land.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.