D'you like the title of this piece?
I do. Not so much as a title, but as a signpost of a phenomena - see 'context'.
Here's how I came to hear the phrase, its context and perhaps some examples, or better yet a plan for recording some Genius pronouncements.
Source: G. Kechnie during a golf round recently. G is turns out is a pot head. For which there is some external evidence in his appearance.
Context: The Genius Hour was a reference to that period of time, familiar to all true pot heads, that the first hour after smoking up may well lead to insights / pronouncements / realizations - which at first glance are pure genius.
Its sort of a self-referential slogan - in that it is obviously a silly, exaggerated notion, that makes fun of pot heads for thinking that these first hour thoughts are somehow generally 'genius' quality. Could this be what is meant by 'irony' ?
Anywayyyys, the current genius idea I have is to try and record some of these genius notions, and the circumstances whence they arose, sort of to prove / disprove the hypothesis, and see where that leads.
I'm curious - Is there any connection between this Genius Hour stuff, and the rather well worn notion of Happy Hour at drinking places?
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