HUMOR

Finding Fossil Fuels In The Bottom Of Your Heart

for those in love with life and dinosaurs

Daniel Williams
6 min readJul 29, 2023

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I stole a bracelet from my nephew. It’s one of those rubber bracelets that make people imagine you’re supporting a cause.

You are.

You’re wearing a bracelet. Which means that rubber loop is wrapped around your wrist instead of the neck of your local dolphin.

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On my bracelet, there are dinosaurs. Nine dinosaurs on parade. So, I guess you know the truth by now:

I’m pro-dinosaur.

Why?

Because life’s too short not to be what you are.

When I march into bars and catch people running down dinosaurs, saying things like, “Let’s make this an anti-dinosaur bar,” I order the biggest beer. I drink it using my most muscly arm, the “major arm,” which is for luring love makers — I glaze it in shine and flourish it in public places — and sometimes the arm is for intimidation work.

I lift the big beer with Major and guess what’s clearly visible?

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Daniel Williams

A poverty-stricken, soft Batman by night. Illustrator and writing teacher by day. Previously: McSweeney’s, Slackjaw.