Citations:galaxy-brain

Adjective: "(Internet slang, often sarcastic) enigmatic, perplexing, unfathomable; difficult to understand or comprehend"

 * 2018, Barry Thompson, "Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party", DigBoston, 20 September 2018, page 12:
 * On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.
 * 2019, Lizzie Frank, "(Unfinished) Criminal Minds Script", Nonsense Humor Magazine, December 2018, page 18:
 * Sheriff
 * (who is a woman!! Perhaps even a hispanic woman...
 * or is that too galaxy brain for you??)
 * 2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10:
 * Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.
 * 2019, Bill Shaner, "Worcesteria", Worcester Magazine, 31 January - 6 February 2019, page 8:
 * You may have read online at worcestermag.com earlier this week that a subcontractor of the 145 Front Street development was ordered to cough up a significant chunk of cash to workers they tried to stiff by saying they'd pay cash overtime and never paying – a galaxy brain genius strategy.
 * 2019, Buzz Magazine, April 2019, page 67:
 * The return to Cardiff of ex-SAS TV tuff guy is already sold out, although if a no-deal Brexit has transpired by this date, perhaps some will return their tickets in light of Ant's galaxy brain prediction ("it would force us into hardship and suffering, which would bring back British values of loyalty") and what this would actually mean in reality.
 * 2019, Isaac Feldberg, "When she’s not singing, Imogen Heap is a hands-on innovator", The Boston Globe, 22 May 2019:
 * “Sorry, everyone's running around me at the moment,” says the galaxy-brain Grammy winner, 41, as an aide connects her phone charger to an outlet. “There we go. I’m all plugged in.”
 * 2019, Jack Holmes, "So How Do You Feel About Another War in the Middle East Under President Fox News Grandpa?", Esquire, 20 June 2019:
 * "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk," was the headline of a particularly galaxy-brain Maureen Dowd piece in the opinion pages of The New York Times during the 2016 campaign.
 * 2019, Calum Slingerland, "Nick Cave Says Morrissey's Music 'Will Long Outlast His Offending Political Alliances'", Exclaim!, 28 June 2019:
 * Earlier this week, Morrissey tried yet again to defend his far-right leanings with some galaxy brain thoughts on racism,
 * 2019, Virginia Heffernan, "An End to Pornography, Sophistry, and Panty Raids", Wired, 20 September 2019:
 * Brockman didn’t send a single moneybags my way, but participation in Edge conferred on its members a galaxy-brain mystique that money can’t buy.
 * 2019, Lewis Hoban, "A Few Notes", CANTA, 5 October 2019, page 32:
 * Even ignoring the increasing bluntness, you could take the galaxy-brain approach and insist that all songs have been about mushy feelings (or straight wanting to pork, ignoring all nuance) before we had polyester hoodies and hi-tops.
 * 2019, Laura Bradley, "Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That", Vanity Fair, 28 October 2019:
 * Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?