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December 05, 2014

125

1.) Being a cop shouldn’t put you above the law. It does but it shouldn’t. 2.) Power doesn’t deserve respect. It must be questioned in the form of an answer. 3.) Slavery is the American original ...


December 03, 2014

123

1.) If killing external keyboards for a laptop was the same as killing a person, I would be history’s greatest monster. 2.) You don’t learn much of anything by knowing how they treat their kings....


December 03, 2014

#stonersports

1.) Going for the Two-Joint Conversion 2.) Calling the Infield-High Rule 3.) Bringing in The Nickel Package 4.) Dank Aaron 5.) Laying down a sacrifice blunt 6.) Ping-Bong 7.) Fooling them with...


December 03, 2014

122

1.) I’ve gotten to be so many different people in so many places that it’s almost unfair to ask to begin again. But here I am, asking anyway. 2.) It’s not just gold prospecting to Dan… it’s meaty...


December 02, 2014

121

1.) At least Goofus was honest about who he was. Gallant was clearly some kind of serial killer, doing it all as cover. 2.) Alternating bemusement & revulsion toward the portrayal of beatniks...


November 30, 2014

november capstone barrage

1.) A “Desperado” parody about some suburban jackass with no need for a truck driving a Silverado? 2.) Iron Chef never needed to be an hour long, it was always mostly just people stalling for thy...


November 29, 2014

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1.) I ain’t a Wesley, I just Crusher a lot. 2.) Has there been a prison love story called ROMEO & JOLIET yet? 3.) TV news, propped up by retail ads, created Black Friday as a cultural idea to...


November 28, 2014

barrage friday

1.) To opendiary friends on prosebox, I am sorry I’m a crappy noter on that platform. I dunno, it’s a very different format, I’ll try to get better. I am reading, though! 2.) I’m astonished Denny...


November 26, 2014

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1.) The better question is if gingersnaps have souls. Because if they do, I am history’s greatest monster. 2.) Times like these, man, I just want a car and a clever woman by my side, I could do a...


November 23, 2014

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1.) The epitaph on western civilization’s grave: “rich people are ruining everything (please make me one of them)” 2.) When the frat’s plane crashed in the desert. the survivors were left to wand...


November 21, 2014

1120

1.) Work when there’s work to be done but don’t work just to work, you’ve nothing to prove to anyone. We are here to fart around and dream. 2.) Sallie Mae only calls when she wants money, she tot...


November 18, 2014

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1.) Nothing’s better for curing meat than penicillin, if you think about it. 2.) If you’re gonna put Skeletor in a car commercial, you render all other car commercials disappointing forever. 3.) ...


November 17, 2014

1117

1.) The weirdest idea I’ve ever had for a sitcom was titled HANGIN’ WITH JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. 2.) Dear gas station ad, you can’t call your gas “a full tank of freedom” unless you give it away. ...


November 16, 2014

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1.) Her time at the chiropractor was a real disc appointment. 2.) Science fiction pro-tip: when we write about time travel, we’re writing about romantic regrets we want to take back. 3.) It’s abo...


November 15, 2014

1114

1.) Fido hates being labeled as a “cocaine addict”. He prefers “drug sniffing dog”. 2.) The greatest product placement ever would have been “No Old Country Buffet For Old Men” and they blew it. T...


November 13, 2014

1113

1.) Scientology’s Hollywood presence makes me wonder how BATTLEFIELD EARTH never got a television adaptation as MY NAME IS TERL. 2.) It feels like the popularity of the recent Battlestar Galactic...


November 13, 2014

1112

1.) If you were hideously deformed, you could mingle about the world by going to comic-cons claiming to cosplay something “really obscure”. 2.) I haven’t seen a Dalek-shaped bong yet. I’m honestl...


November 12, 2014

1111

1.) They’re the hipster Transformers, the Deconstructicons. They’re… pretty terrible. 2.) How many fantasy teams will be called Brutal Rebels of the Hellscape? 3.) It’s impossible for the Dumb &a...


November 11, 2014

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1.) I ran my entire emotional gamut from self-pity to mocking my own self-pity to screaming. 2.) “I haven’t even done it yet,” she said, “and I’m already pregretting it.” 3.) Watch who you say “s...


November 11, 2014

#FilmsWithOneLetterMissing

1.) A Cockwork Orange #FilmsWithOneLetterMissing 2.) The Empire Trikes Back #FilmsWithOneLetterMissing 3.) Eternal Sunshine Of The Potless Mind #FilmsWithOneLetterMissing 4.) Full Meta Jacket #Fi...


November 10, 2014

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1.) It’s amazing that a high-profile show could be doomed from the start simply by how awful the title was but… SELFIE managed it. 2.) Have we already done Avengers 2/The Amazing Spader-Man jokes...


November 08, 2014

117

1.) Thought of the night: if I have any unsettled wrongs I’ve committed, please clue me in, I’m trying to clear my karmic decks, so to speak. 2.) The least terrible Billy Joel song is “This Is ...


November 06, 2014

115

1.) I know feeding religious fanatics to the lions is way out of style but don’t the Duggars make you feel just a little bit nostalgic for it? 2.) Marvel hits the bottom of the barrel with Cant-M...


November 03, 2014

113

1.) Ten years ago, VANILLA ICE GOES AMISH would have only been a lazy absurd joke on a bad sketch comedy show, MADTV or whatever. Irony has turned in a circle and is gorging itself to death on it...


November 01, 2014

october capstone barrage

1.) Most of my celebrity crushes are either comediennes or cooking show hosts. I think this clearly delineates my life priorities. 2.) The one tool we have against shadowy wealth pulling the stri...


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