"brain-dead"

The phrase hit me a couple of times, lately.

Last night, thinking about nothing in particular, the phrase came to me and I laughed about it. Abject fatigue was probably the reason it hit me, verbalized by the thought that I was 'dead tired' and "brain-dead" just attached itself onto the end of that like an automated caboose to a rail car.

Molding language into story form as a pasttime...using complicated software to compose a fugue, ballad or overture. Not exactly leisure-time pursuits of the hopelessly brain-dead.

If "brain-dead" is two too many drops of invention splashed into the intellectual chemistry, I'll testify it's one hell of a productive and pleasurable demise.