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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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fe10 in idea barrages
1.) Not enough people would get my joke about a vast government conspiracy of over-priced make-up stores called “MK-Ulta”. 2.) If you have to defend yourself from the Gestapo that ICE has become ...
fe9 in idea barrages
1.) The bastards have you buffaloed, worrying on what’s possible, what’s in line with your ideological tribe, even what’s real. None of those matter in the long run. What matters is what’s humane...
fe7 in idea barrages
1.) Ain’t nobody buying my pitch about two sweetly-dumb serial killers bumbling their way across the country in DAHM AND DAHMER. 2.) More like the Dow Jones COMBUSTIBLE Average, AMIRITE? 3.) Your...
the one stage of grief in poetry
they tell you that you won’t always be asking yourself if this is actually a nightmare asking yourself if you’re actually just in hell every couple of hours they tell you that those feeling...
fe6 in idea barrages
1.) The difference between “the greatest” and “just good enough” is all style points. Empty ego puffery. Do your thing. Don’t worry about being “the best” or “perfect”, that’s for suckers. Get yo...
fe5 in idea barrages
1.) I always watched Agents of SHIELD with my pop. I thought “oh God, at nine, I can’t miss it.” I didn’t forget him, I didn’t forget our tradition. I did, however, in my grief forget what day it...
my dad (reposted from facebook) in life stuff and misc.
So, yeah, my dad, the best father and husband in the world, passed away from a heart attack in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning. My brother was holding him in his arms, there was little pain, ...
keyword "warning" title "making history" in misc. flash fiction
His future mother-in-law called him “Jimmy”, even though his given name was James Sheng and nearly everyone since junior high just called him “Jim”. Qingzhao’s mother was a tiny tanned tin tyrant...
ja31 in idea barrages
1.) Do you think I sing “Smooth Criminal” to my mom’s dog? Of course I do. OLLIE ARE YOU OKAY, ARE YOU OKAY, ARE YOU OKAY OLLIE 2.) State of the Union? Jesus Christ, let’s be serious, if I was fo...
ja30 in idea barrages
1.) So there’s this document going around, proof that there are long-established forces opposed to the way the Trump junta “governs”. It’s called The Constitution. I’m sure they’ll say John Hanco...
massive computer problems in life stuff and misc.
Might be missing from here for a while because I’m trying to figure out if I’m either replacing or repairing my borked laptop. If it’s the rare situation where you know me best through here b...
ja28 in idea barrages
1.) I still say the maple syrup production term “sugaring off” sounds dirty as hell. 2.) I really really really hope that the problem with my mom’s computer was a botched Windows 10 update that I...
ja27 in idea barrages
1.) I’ve never once in my life been motivated by negative reinforcement. I’ll never understand those people. Doing something to “prove someone wrong” is the farthest idea from my mindset ever. “Y...
ja26 in idea barrages
1.) The hardest night of every diet is the next night. It not only never gets easier, it gets very slightly harder every single day. For the rest of my life, I guess? I’m sure quitting smoking is...
uncommon decency in poetry
if you find people berating you to be a decent human being within mixed company it’s not “political correctness gone wild” it’s not “don’t be a sensitive child” it’s not “social justice run...
ja25 in idea barrages
1.) They needed someone to come in and save their human resources department from itself. Their own personnel Jesus, if you will. 2.) The problem with Access is that fans elevated to very minor c...
postcards from New York City in poetry
they say that God gave moles their digging claws and since God matches advantage to equal flaws that high-and-mighty bastard stole away with their eyes they say there always has to be a t...
ja24 in idea barrages
1.) If you estimate that your business was established during Eastern Standard Time, do you write “EST EST EST” on the door? 2.) The New Testament is actually called “Testament 2: His First Assig...
keyword "reticent" title "of a feather" in misc. flash fiction
She was reticent to talk about it with her family or her friends but she knew she’d have to break it off with him. They’d met when he was working the bird desk at the biggest pet store in the are...
ja23 in idea barrages
1.) Branding their Halloween baked good “Boo Cakies” may not have been the best idea. 2.) You gotta take weight loss the same way Genghis Khan took Asia, steppe by steppe. 3.) Remember: serfdom r...
ja21 in idea barrages
1.) Good is better than perfect. Perfection has no room to change, no room to grow. Without change, in a generation, the old perfect will be evil & cruel because perfect gets stuck in its mom...
ja20 in idea barrages
1.) One of the things that I really loved about the TRAMONTANE CAFE’s tenth anniversary in retrospect was the care Robin and Garrett put into making sure the full spectrum of the Tram’s creative ...
you were cool in poetry
history’s empires rise and fall great queens and kings now forgotten except their names on bathroom walls receipts for wheat stamped into clay all that remains for us...
silicon-based organism in poetry
no, keeping a facial recognition scan of yourself inside the cellphone at your hip is a great idea it’s not like any nineteen year old Russian hacker could get that in about five minutes of...
virtue signalling in poetry
I don’t give a damn if someone is being virtuous to be seen for it or if they’re being virtuous in saintly anonymity as long as you’re being virtuous you can “virtue signal” all you want, I sa...
