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by littlefallsmets

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February 05, 2022

feb 5

If anyone ever invents an infallible path to happiness and starts educating people about it, all I ask is, please call it “glad school”. A weird Ghostbusters / Little Shop of Horrors crossove...


February 03, 2022

feb 3

You are in the Feywild. You just had the best meal of your life. You tell the server “My compliments to the chef!” From that moment on, you are never able to compliment anything or anyone ever ...


February 01, 2022

feb 1

If the CEO of the Bedazzler corporation was convicted of siphoning off funds for himself, the headlines would be so fun. The Fox News candy fetish is bordering on neccophilia. Whenever I re...


January 29, 2022

jan 30

If I’m around to eulogize Western Civilization, I want to solemnly intone “when pizza was on a bagel, truly, you could have had pizza anytime” at the funeral. A story about a support group fo...


January 28, 2022

jan 28

I bet it’s weird going undercover for a sting posing as a stripper who starts out dressed as a cop. The only thing worse would be going undercover as a club DJ, that moment when you realize you...


January 26, 2022

jan 26

When Skywalker drank the blue milk straight from the space walrus, what was the temperature? …luke warm? If you eat too many poffertjes, you get clogged arteries but, like, not with cholester...


January 24, 2022

jan 24

George the Third’s royal court was really just an insane crown posse. There’s only one thing Tim Allen could do with his career at this point, only one thing worth watching at all. Bring some...


January 22, 2022

jan 22

A rap parody about Brian Posehn built around the line “Posehn in the membrane / Posehn in the brain”. The Phish song “David Bowie” but about Patrick Duffy. Start an ice cream parlor to supp...


January 20, 2022

jan 20

When Alta Vista died, it should’ve retroactively had its name changed to Baja Vista. A Twilight Zone that ends with the line “But Doctor, you ARE Pagliacci!” You can’t look outside of yours...


January 17, 2022

jan 18

Mike Myers is the poor man’s Martin Short. Rick Moranis is the rich man’s Martin Short. An anthem for country-and-western vegetarians “I Eat Things With No Faces”. Dough in a Tandoori is a ...


January 16, 2022

jan 16

The first time your children encounter The Flintstones, tell them that it was based on a popular cereal. Oh boy, someday they’ll find out the truth and what a laugh you’ll have. One arbitrary...


January 14, 2022

jan 14

Watch out, lest the genie of the shampoo bottle ends up washed up as a bathtub djinn. Some day, up here in the North Country, we will start calling surgical masks “COVID mufflers” because the...


January 11, 2022

jan 12

If you want both the goth AND the emo audiences to buy your stuff, you just name the band Unsolved Miseries. There you go. All the merch sales. A Cake parody about people in a moral panic ove...


January 10, 2022

jan 10

Another way wealth is wasted on the wealthy: who spends their money on almost going into outer space for five minutes when you could build a pyramid lined with the old Chuck E Cheese movie paro...


January 09, 2022

jan 8

It’s not when the classic rock station starts playing the music of your youth that you’re old, it’s when the classic rock station starts playing the music you were too old for in high school, t...


January 06, 2022

jan 6

The Youtube Algorithm. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Sometimes you have to step back and ask yourself: what are you programming yourself to be? The media you consume, ...


January 05, 2022

jan 4

In your Early Middle Ages history class, you will have at least one chance for the bon mot “Picts or it didn’t happen!” Be on guard, be ready, your time will come. You can’t use Cap’n Crunch ...


January 02, 2022

jan 2

Pirates used to eat in the gallery but they used up all the Rs and it became the galley. I feel like we went from double-bladed razors to eight-bladed razors at light speed, meanwhile we’ve b...


December 30, 2021

dec 30

Oh, the abyss is going to stare back. It’s unavoidable from the start. The key is maybe, just maybe, you can make the abyss blink first. Have we considered that maybe Grandma also say Mommy k...


December 28, 2021

dec 28

An ICP boy band spin-off called Boyzone The Clowns. to the tune of The First Noel “Kal-El, Kal-El, Kal-EL, KAAAAAL-EL, oh boy is that Superman really swell” “If it weren’t for executive dys...


December 25, 2021

dec 26

“Do No Harm” is not enough. It’s a fine start but it is not enough. Mermaids and mermen use tridents. Demons and devils use tridents. Clearly, if you have a character who is half-infernal and...


December 24, 2021

dec 24

Money makes one think they know everything. Fame makes one think they must yell it all from the rooftops. Not enough people in the backs of chariots telling people they’re not gods anymore thes...


December 21, 2021

dec 22

An album of muzak-styled Radiohead covered called OK Commuter. Sometimes I think about how the Zodiac Killer really wasted a gimmick by not targeting the people who write horoscopes. There’...


December 19, 2021

dec 20

SONIC THE HEGEMONY It is of vital importance that you pretend to confuse Ernest and Forrest Gump at all possible times. Yoda sets his camera up on a quadpod because there is no tri. The M...


December 17, 2021

dec 18

You put your dick in the coconut/thats pretty fucked up/just get yourself together/I say Doctor/how much more much we endure/I say Doctor/get this man the talking cure/he put his dick in the co...


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