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You remember when you walked out of a screening of THE PHANTOM MENACE & realized the auteur is a lie, singular genius is a lie, art comes from a combination of adversity, compromise & d...
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There’s probably, right now, a dude in England who sleeps around a lot nicknamed Randy Travis who doesn’t even know that there was a mediocre country singer in America who came by the name hone...
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Of course that conman on the History Channel thinks everything is aliens. He’s clearly one of the bird people from Babylon 5. A dating site where women can meet the emotionally-unavailable r...
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“Aim for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll still hit the stars” feels like victim blaming. We should be able to aim for, like, just a little bit down the street and be okay. This culture of Ac...
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Whenever someone shares a photo of one of their ancestors looking fine from the distant past, always reply “building a time machine so I can be your great / grand / mother / father”. It’s alway...
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You shouldn’t feel guilty about the step-backs you need to make socially, to protect yourself, to maintain your energy. You can’t help everyone. If you wear down completely or you wreck your ow...
prompt: yarn, title: here's the proof
It shouldn’t be a beer, he thought, certainly not macro-brew swill from a third-rate Scottish label. It should’ve been a vodka martini, procured from only highest-shelf stocks, mixed to his pecu...
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In Soviet telephone company, party-line uses YOU. “The only preparation my generation had for 9/11 was Star Wars The Phantom Menace,” she asserted, “not in magnitude, but in a general sense o...
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A high-risk sort of stunt artist. An Easel Knievel, if you will. I fear most people would rather be rich & famous for rubbish than largely unheralded but doing good work. I fear it’s the ...
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A Beastie Boys parody about space garbagemen called “Intergalactic Sanitary”. LESS VIRTUAL REALITY, MORE VICTUAL REALITY. I like to imagine what New Bay Seasoning tasted like, when they bri...
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A detective novel about a crime-solving bartender called “First-Degree Muddler”. 2 Olive 2 Gardenous: When You’re Here, You’re Family A sitcom about the collapsing housing market called REA...
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I’m not much of a hockey person, really, but every time I see a warm weather city team advance in the NHL playoffs, my heart knows this is wrong and should not happen. The idea of “a good hur...
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Perfect is boring. The little imperfections let the glory of the art or the person shine. Perfect things aren’t meant for here, may your works and your loves be bodhisattvas with just enough be...
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If your go-to seduction technique is making her laugh, that’s just funnilingus. Why did they roll with the neologism “bussy” when it was so obvious to run with the word “broaca”? There’s a ...
nov2
Today I realized that Jimmy Fallon would be a perfect partner for Batman in defeating the Joker, as what with the always laughing at nothing to begin with, he would be immune to the Joker Gas. ...
bonus barrage
If you’re gluten intolerant, it’s likely you’re also fettuccine afraido. In Seinfeld, they so easily have called “the airing of grievances” in Festivus “the bitching hour” instead. Pretendi...
oct 28
Write a book called “How To Hunt Porch Pirates” so that people can order it from Amazon, leave it on their porches for the thieves so that when they open the stolen mail, they get the fear of G...
oct 26
Why call it “drunken master fighting” when you can call it “brew-jitsu”? Gingivitis is actually an STD from going down on too many redheads. No, the WEIRDEST distant sequel to a Madonna fil...
oct 24
Panera should totally take the name “Bread Broth and Beyond” now, before some venture capital company takes over Bed Bath and Beyond’s zombie IP to sue people for doing stuff like that. The m...
oct 22
Why say “occasional diarrhea” when you can say “shittermittent”? Whenever a website begs me to remove my adblocker, it’s like a really sleazy dude begging to not wear a condom. Like, I know ...
oct 20
I don’t know what the film / book mash up “My Own Private Ivanhoe” would look like, I just know someone should do it. Ever since he got his own clone as a sex slave, he’s been so full of hims...
oct 18
The Exorcist reboot sounds TERRIFYING…ly unnecessary. Did Carol Burnett ever do a gag where in the last skit of the show she was playing a zombie and in the outro when she tugs her ear, she t...
oct 16
A standing desk, that just sounds like double the work to me. At the very least, you should get paid extra for the awkward standing and leaning, pretending you’re being healthy but just hurting...
oct 14
Are people who seem to jump out of planes straight into your DMs “parasocials”? There’s a weird legislated nostalgia for Blockbuster as “the best video store” but unless you wanted the newes...
oct 12
I hope Princess Peach and Mario Mario name their daughter Amelia Mario so that people can point at her and be like “It’s Am-y… Mario.” I demand that when Bon Jovi does a farewell tour, he cal...
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
