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I write words, I sometimes get to perform them out, sometimes I'm even paid. And I'm trying to get it right, get it right.
with enough repetition, your flaws become your style
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j13 in idea barrages
The ability to tell when someone’s into anyone other than you is not the most useful superpower, but it’s a good one for the back of the trading card. “Walkin’ Into Spiderwebs” by Gwen S...
j11 in idea barrages
Why say “laser tattoo removal” when you can say “deconstructive surgery”? A Pennsylvania themed fashion line, just so you can get around to “The Gettysburg, A Dress”. We spend life l...
j9 in idea barrages
Why say “counterfeit” when you can say “funmarked bills”? a robot named Shirley Template why say “anime masturbation injury” when you can say “yaoi owie”? A mathematical tangent ...
There’ve been thousands of plagues in recorded human history. Tens of thousands we can never know about because there wasn’t writing yet, or their texts couldn’t survive the ravages of ages, or ...
j7 in idea barrages
Replace that angry British chef with Donald Duck, call it THE MALLARD REACTION. Pee Wee Herman and He-Man mashed together into Her-Man. A romantic arc for your Open Hand monk charact...
j5 in idea barrages
A mash-up of The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” and Lord Huron “Mine Forever” could be in the trailer for every indie film until the end of time. A Fiona Apple parody about people going s...
j3 in idea barrages
A ninja flick about a drunken-boxing-style fighter who has switched to hard seltzer for his health called FIST OF THE WHITE CLAW. There’s a way to mash up DUCK TALES and CALL ME AL but I...
j1 in idea barrages
But the best mash-up of all, I realized, would be of Dolly Patron’s “9 to 5” and Moby’s “Run On”. If I ever lose a limb to The Sugar, the stampy-stamp of my wooden peg will be my Carbin’...
dec30 in idea barrages
If you want to get a doctorate in culinary school, you’ll have to defend your dessertation. Post-TARDIS Stress Dalek. It yells “DISSOCIATE! DISSOCIATE!” Is there anything less creati...
dec 28 in idea barrages
You can’t spell “palimpsest” without “im”. Today, I was either dressed as “Johnny Cash on casual day” or “a beatnik with a day-job” or “a priest on incognito sabbatical”, depending on wh...
dec 26 in idea barrages
There is a great joke, somewhere, in the line “Jojo Siwa, Your Wife Is Calling” but the Venn Diagram between knowing mid-Eighties Richard Pryor films and knowing 2010s internet celebrity cul...
dec 24 in idea barrages
The male equivalent of The Flying Nun is The Air Friar. When I see that noseless mutant from the FALLOUT series, all I can think is “NYEH HEH HEH, COWBOY SKELETOR!” A doomsday preppe...
dec 22 in idea barrages
Is there any more pre-fab a cultural force than reality television? It doesn’t get half the ratings scripted television does, but it’s 20 times cheaper as it cuts out the writers and actors’...
dec20 in idea barrages
if Gary Numan and Gary Oldman met, what would happen? my main two guesses would be that either they would annihilate into pure energy or would produce a son named Gary Man An anagram for...
prompt: fuse, title: the future was now in misc. flash fiction
When the writing’s on the wall, the writing’s on the wall. The first time I saw a website with an advertisement in a paper magazine, I knew that industry was on its slow crawl out. That’s when y...
dec 18 in idea barrages
I feel like the only thing worse than watching Coachella on YouTube would be actually attending Coachella in 120 degree heat with 15,000 trust-fund influencers sweatily TikToking each others...
Why say “wedding rehearsal dinner” when you can say “fiance feast”? His return from the grave as a police cyborg gave him a maniac passion to live life to its fullest with this second ch...
dec 14 in idea barrages
Sometimes you just gotta psych yourself up for an insulin shot by chanting “Needlejuice, Needlejuice, NEEDLEJUICE!” We got skin-divers, we go frogmen, we got scuba dudes, we have diverse...
dec 12 in idea barrages
You raised us, constantly telling us how we were destined for greatness and the best at everything, and now you say we got a generational praise kink. Like, yeah, you did that to us, yes. ...
dec 10 in idea barrages
Make your mind up, Maybelline. Yes or no. This internal debate has to end with a decision, Maybelline. You can’t live like this, you’re reached a point of branching and you just have to pick...
dec 8 in idea barrages
On one level, GREASE is about how if you really love someone, you should change everything about yourself for them, but on another level GREASE is about all teenagers looking like they’re th...
dec 6 in idea barrages
The interesting thing about artistic success is how it automatically undoes itself, like one of those toys where you press a button and a hand pops out to turn itself back off. Your muse is ...
prompt: cure, title: the sum of the law in misc. flash fiction
As the dutiful oldest daughter of an impoverished family, Maria took up the burden of helping with finances, by sneaking across the border to work on the farms of California, sending back everyt...
dec 4 in idea barrages
Being between two radio markets & hearing two classic rock stations both play the same playlists w/ slightly different timings for different local adbreaks, it really breaks the radio ka...
dec 2 in idea barrages
Sometimes I think about how “Faith of the Heart”, the theme to STAR TREK ENTERPRISE, was essentially the hair metal band Warrant’s failed ballad “Blind Faith” with the numbers filed off. ...
