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February 04, 2016

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1.) We knew he’d eventually boast about killing the lieutenant, he was full of fraggadocia. 2.) I’ve never seen ARROW so I’m assuming the guy with the Magneto helmet is called “Captain Not-In-The...


February 03, 2016

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1.) “This medicine will help you with asthma! WARNING: may cause you to die of asthma.” America. 2.) The cat does not realize that I am slightly allergic to him and that past a certain point, he ...


February 02, 2016

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1.) If you think I’m grumpy about not being able to find a day job, boy howdy, I am a typhoon of resentment on a diet. Oh Lord. 2.) The snuggle is real. Or, anyway, it would be. 3.) Banksy is too...


February 01, 2016

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1.) He didn’t like his lovers too too thin, he liked their thighs as thick as sin. 2.) Rommel The Third, you magnificent bastard, I read your tweets! 3.) Some practice monogamy because it is thei...


January 31, 2016

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1.) A barista themed wrestler with moves like The French Press and The Red-Eye. 2.) You get on the bus to L.A. because you think you’re already perfect to be a star and when you get off, she disa...


January 30, 2016

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1.) Ponder what it really means to drive a car in your brand-new existential Chrysler. 2.) Money is also a social construct but that doesn’t make it go away either. There’s work to be done. 3.) M...


January 29, 2016

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1.) That tacky-ass “Don’t Tread On Me” flag that “militia” love is like a bad over-explained editorial cartoon in flag form. 2.) Bible thumpers & fascists decrying the “death of white culture...


January 28, 2016

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1.) TRUE CONFESSIONS: I still don’t know what the goddamn poke thing on facebook means or is for. 2.) I’m surprised that Uber and Lyft don’t call their oppressed gig-economy-serfs “Venture Carpoo...


January 27, 2016

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1.) We never found Carmen Sandiego because she dressed up as Where’s Waldo and slipped away forever. 2.) The later we succeed, the later we collapse into success-sheltered self-parody, this is ou...


January 26, 2016

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1.) Trump’s just mainstream G.O.P. I mean Cheney shot a guy and he stayed in power. 2.) I snuck a small Bowie reference into my tribute poem to Roger Smith, I hope neither of them minded. 3.) Our...


January 24, 2016

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1.) FAKE FACT: the alma mater song at Iona College is a slightly reworked version of Primus’ “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver”. 2.) Haven’t grown my beard out this much in a long time, I forgot about t...


January 23, 2016

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1.) When you’re waiting for your epidural to kick in, that’s the spinal countdown, d-d-dun-dun d-d-dun-dun-dun. 2.) UNPOPULAR OPINION: I LIKE Ford’s bored voice-over reading at the end of Bladeru...


January 22, 2016

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1.) GAMIFY YOUR PARADIGM. BE THIRSTY FOR FLEEK RETURN ON INVESTMENT. ABANDON LANGUAGE ENTIRELY FOR A SALAD OF RECENT JARGON. 2.) Orange Julius used to have a companion restaurant Orange Ethel but...


January 21, 2016

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1.) Burger King, when you call them “Golden Nuggets” it is a suspicious evasion. What percentage of these things are silly putty? 2.) Doubt keeps you honest but too much doubt keeps you quiet. It...


January 20, 2016

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1.) I hate how we call mercenaries “contractors” now like they’re architects in the little trailers behind construction sites. 2.) Overuse of Fireball is threatening biodiversity for the Dungeons...


January 19, 2016

my best barrage ever

1.) If the Democratic Debates were Gilligan’s Island, O’Malley would just be called “And The Rest”. 2.) An app for lumberjacks looking for casual encounters with each other called Timbr. 3.) A pa...


January 18, 2016

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1.) I still don’t know how PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES exploded as a premise and not JANE AUSTEN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF BORING. 2.) Nightmares last night involved being naked in p...


January 17, 2016

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1.) If you don’t believe that they dump all the crap movies in January, watch the trailers for “50 Shades of Black” and “The Boy”. 2.) We’re losing all these geniuses so fast, someone’s gonna hav...


January 16, 2016

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1.) We joked for decades “here’s proof that Western Civilization is done” & then the Trump candidacy came along & it wasn’t funny anymore. 2.) “Where’s Superman?” the Martian Manhunter as...


January 15, 2016

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1.) If someone’s annoying you, just whip around and be all “WHAT’S YOUR BEEF, STEW?” 2.) When you start expanding your paid insult business, you’re gonna end up diss enfranchised. 3.) With the lo...


January 14, 2016

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1.) One myth about militia douches is they call themselves “minutemen” because of revolutionary history as opposed to their sexual dysfunction. 2.) Mainstream successful bands never really “break...


January 13, 2016

113

1.) I wonder if Christopher Walken ever used the pick-up line “Let your fingers do the Walken.” 2.) The Oscar Wilde-themed stand-up comedy set was totally bombing, his forehead was covered in fop...


January 12, 2016

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1.) The horses don’t believe in me but they’ve always been naysayers. 2.) It is almost impossible to believe David Bowie’s dead. It has to be a hoax. I’ve seen that man fend off a hurricane. 3.) ...


January 11, 2016

not my finest barrage

1.) If I had a mortal enemy frozen in carbonite, I’d sure as hell draw on his face with markers and stuff. 2.) The best thing about being a tv/film burnout is not having to pretend to give a damn...


January 10, 2016

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1.) If Rey turns out to be Luke’s kid, does that mean when she was piloting the Falcon she was in Uncle Han’s Cabin? 2.) Yosemite Sam, at customs at the airport, saying “I do declare!” so many ti...


Book Description

originally, I went to college to be a comedy writer
the urge to still generate short form ideas remains
I collect, once or twice a day, my one-liner jokes
and my germs of ideas that I litter on social media
into little collections I call “barrages”
and then I put them here
sometimes