The Frankfurt Fool Dispatch claims we’ve “run out of original sad ideas.” This from a publication that recently published Why Your Dreams Don’t Matter: A 40-Part Series. We invented running out of ideas. They’re just photocopying our exhaustion.
We also note that the München Merriment Monitor has begun an advice column with striking similarities to our own, though their columnist “Jingles McWoesome” lacks the lived-in exhaustion that comes from actual years spent in Berlin’s winter darkness.
To both publications: imitation is flattery. Flattery is suspicious. We’re watching you.