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March 14, 2018

pi day

1.) They’re trying to say they’re alt-punctuation but we all know they’re just the same old grammar Nazis. 2.) I would give a show starring Mindy Kaling and Bjork called “Bjork and Mindy” a chanc...


March 13, 2018

mar13

1.) You could do worse than rewriting classic rock into socialist manifestos and performing as Red Zeppelin, I s’pose. 2.) As long as Trump enforces the GOP leadership’s vulture capitalism disman...


March 12, 2018

mar12

1.) The good thing about chasing something with no monetary collectors’ value like VHS of Jerry Maguire is that you can go on a thrift binge, like today, and even if you don’t get anything else, ...


March 11, 2018

mar11

1.) I want a David Lynch cookbook called “Fire Wok With Me”. 2.) How did it take me thirty-eight years to realize “Roadhouse Blues” and “Truckin” were the exact same song? 3.) If you don’t have a...


March 10, 2018

mar10

1.) I mean, sure, if I knew how to hack and mod video games, I would definitely make THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE MACARENA OF TIME but you can’t build up this much pun acuity while also learning how ...


March 09, 2018

mar9

1.) Maybe the reason we haven’t met any aliens yet is that there’s a mass extinction at the point in every civilization once anti-vax psychotics start popping up en masse and we just haven’t tipp...


March 08, 2018

mar8

1.) Is there a saint of the in-between places, of transitional states? Is there a saint of Limbo? Is there a saint for the truckstops? All I’m saying is, I’m not the most busy person these days, ...


March 07, 2018

mar7

1.) Half the problem is cowardly journalists covering a “president” with no democratic legitimacy as if he is actually the president. The emperor almost literally has no clothes. The minute telev...


March 05, 2018

mar5

1.) The icicles on the trees, that’s just branch dressing. 2.) Always wonderful to be at an open mic instead of worrying about the Oscars. Washing out in L.A. had its benefits after all. 3.) Your...


March 04, 2018

mar4

1.) This bag of Hershey Miniatures is challenging my low-carb diet so badly. There’s a little jerk in me who keeps yelling “RELEASE THE KRACKLE” and I have to keep punching him in the face with m...


March 03, 2018

mar3

1.) If the human race survives without another dark age, in a couple hundred years, they’ll look upon our culture’s holy veneration of the gun, our American cult of death, the same way we look up...


March 02, 2018

mar2

1.) The NRA doesn’t care about you, they just want to sell more guns. The NRA doesn’t care about safety or the Bill of Rights or human lives or their own members, they just want to sell more guns...


March 01, 2018

march opener

1.) No British food stuff sounds more like a made-up food stuff from a 90s science-fiction series than “Jaffa Cakes”. You can totally see Quark selling jaffa cakes alongside that Klingon coffee “...


February 28, 2018

feb capstone

1.) It is weird to get reprimanded on a website for pointing out that Tim Tebow is an opportunistic hatemonger while he is only rewarded for being as such. The parallels to Cadet Bone Spurs are n...


February 27, 2018

fe27

1.) In this nightmare, I was stuck in a time loop of being shot to death at a composite of a few different shopping malls. Every time I died, I returned to the start of the dream and every time, ...


February 25, 2018

fe25

1.) The fact that the porno movie awards aren’t called The Peephole’s Choice Awards is one of our culture’s great hidden sins. 2.) I swear to God, actual cable news headline “Is Arming Teachers A...


February 24, 2018

fe24

1.) Your sitcom about people trying to be Portland/Austin/Williamsburg/Echo Park-style hipsters in a city too small to sustain a full scene will be called NOISY, IDAHO. 2.) What’s that flower tha...


February 23, 2018

fe23

1.) Claudia Tenney is an almost impossibly horrible human being and if you’re planning to waste your vote on a third party candidate instead of voting for the Democratic candidate because you req...


February 22, 2018

fe22

1.) Just because the lines on a map are useful in a transitory way, that doesn’t make them real. Most of the things the lines represent are made up too. The roads and the buildings exist, of cour...


February 20, 2018

fe21

1.) I await the day when Nightvale uses Built To Spill’s “The Weather” as The Weather. 2.) Whenever someone on Twitter uses the hashtag #MUA for a make-up artist, my brain first thinks they’re on...


February 19, 2018

fe19

1.) The snow, like life, seems like a tedious hassle to be endured until you stand back, take a breath, clear your head and let yourself see how goddamned beautiful it is. 2.) feels like I’m doin...


February 18, 2018

fe18

1.) Defending AR-15 ownership by saying “well, you CAN hunt with them!” is as asinine as saying you should get to own a nuke because you CAN hunt with them. If you’re such a tough butch survivorm...


February 17, 2018

fe17

1.) No one’s exclusively introverted or extroverted, we’re all some of one and some of the other. We’re all bioverted, really, false binaries fail us once again, as usual. 2.) facebook memories, ...


February 16, 2018

fe16

1.) Say whatcha will about spending 25 years suppressing my anger into sadness so that I wasn’t overwhelmed with rage, yeah yeah, we could write books about the few pros and many cons of my ad-ho...


February 11, 2018

fe11

1.) I’ll let the dog think he protected me from that snowplow he barked at for five minutes. “Oh yeah, Ollie, you totally scared off the monster.” 2.) Y’know, maybe it’s just me but I’ve lost my ...


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