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January 10, 2019

janu11

1.) It started by telling you that a black politician couldn’t possibly be American and then by telling you that a woman who can lead must somehow be a fraud. When they tell you who they are, lis...


January 09, 2019

janu10

1.) No no, it’s not a Cloak of Invisibility, it’s an Invisible Cloak. It won’t make you invisible but it will make you slightly warmer than your enemies suspect. 2.) Fraternity legends speak of t...


January 08, 2019

janu9

1.) This week in “Terrible Pharma Ads On Facebook Where The Generic Name Sounds Like An NPR On-Air Talent” is CHANTIX (varenicline). “For Marketplace, I’m Varen Icline.” 2.) Curiously, the plural...


January 07, 2019

janu8

1.) Before the rats leave a sinking ship, they are known to cause quite the commotion. 2.) I just wanna know what Dante’s Disco Inferno would look like. 3.) Today’s song for the dog is to the tu...


January 06, 2019

janu7

1.) The cops almost caught the Victoria’s Secret shoplifting bandit but in the end, he gave them the slip. 2.) No, the nerdiest thing I could ever write would be a parody of Ozzy’s “Mama I’m Comi...


January 05, 2019

janu6

1.) Captain Kirk time-travels into a Target in 2019 and is suddenly very sad, assuming the entire staff is about to die on the next away mission. 2.) Every time you get a receipt from CVS, an acr...


January 04, 2019

janu5

1.) The Old Milwaukee ban at the Utica Human Pong match would reek of “desperate P.R. stunt to remind us we have a Human Pong team” except that the reek of the Utica Club is covering up that smel...


January 03, 2019

janu4

1.) If you want to kill the author, you also have to kill the context you bring to the work yourself. Good luck with that. So too with the text of reality, a possible supernatural’s intent & ...


January 02, 2019

jan3

1.) If we must be put into identity boxes, at least don’t just be in one. Have fifty or seventy things about you that are all co-equal so when they try to lock you down in one box, you can just h...


1.) Part man, part wind instrument, all cop. OBOECOP. 2.) I’ve always found it interesting how people are all like “the original gray Hulk was supposed to look like the movie version of Frankenst...


December 30, 2018

j1

1.) They should’ve named the mouse that lived for decades because of Jesus powers in THE GREEN MILE “Murray” so he could be “Murray, Christ mouse”. Murray Christ Mouse and his Many New Years! 2.)...


December 30, 2018

de31

1.) So this nightmare was about being trapped in nesting levels of a virtual reality experience, in a mall that didn’t exist in real space, trying to escape without getting caught up in an espion...


December 29, 2018

de30

1.) In two years, the end of year wrap up stories are going to be insufferable with “2020 Hindsight” wordplay. 2.) The realization hits how many inner city school shootings happened for decades b...


December 27, 2018

de29

1.) The study of ancient wolves is called “barkeology”. 2.) In Ireland on December 27th, the children are visited by a magical leprechaun who brings them batteries for all the toys Santa brought ...


December 27, 2018

de28

1.) You will only solve food crimes and will demand the title “private ingestigator”. 2.) As a Cuse fan & alum, gotta admit, sometimes SU basketball is more entertaining when they’re bad. The...


December 26, 2018

de27

1.) A painting of five different personae of Doug Funnie playing cards with each other called “Dougs Playing Poker”. 2.) I feel like we’re near a point where a Kevin Spacey/Donald Trump/Louis C.K...


December 25, 2018

de26

1.) The hook up site for really short LGBTQ folk should be called Stumpgrindr. 2.) I just wish Pauly Shore had been in a Nightmare On Elm Street movies so Freddy could’ve put his head in a vise a...


December 23, 2018

christmas barrage

1.) Sometimes I like to say Josh Groban’s name like he’s a He-Man character. Like “Gro-BAN”. Like Gro-Ban and The Masters of Mediocrity. 2.) The version of COME TOGETHER about Ollie starts “Here ...


December 23, 2018

de24

1.) Part of me wants to point out that “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” is kind of the same song as the theme to “The Nanny” but another part of me wants to write a parody about Trump’s appease Putin boogi...


December 22, 2018

d23

1.) Snow, at least, you can wipe off your shoulders if it’s light enough. Thirty-six degree rain, though, it just soaks. It just soaks through straight to the bone. 2.) Whenever uses the term “AF...


December 21, 2018

d22

1.) At Christmas for Dark Crystal fans, it’s Gelfling on a Shelfling. 2.) Xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a rare drug in that both its brand name AND its generic name BOTH sound like the names of NPR co...


December 20, 2018

de21

1.) Posting photos of Madonna to social media without context is called “voguebooking “. 2.) Don’t worry about Los Angeles drawing Matt Harvey back into the city party lifestyle he knew with the ...


December 19, 2018

de20

1.) Modern cuisine and literature are similar insofaras if it says “deconstructed” in the review, 99% of the time it will be pretentious crap but 1% of the time it will be the best you have ever ...


December 18, 2018

de19

1.) This is the most 1130pm a 6am has ever felt . 2.) Dracula’s Carpenters parody will be called “Lycanthropes And Mummies Always Get Me Down”. 3.) I often think on how much of my personal cultu...


December 17, 2018

de18

1.) What would be more Christmassy than Jesus with the crown of thorns replaced with festive Christmas lights? Longinus hella stabbing Him with the Candy Cane of Destiny and the wound gushing for...


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