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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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1027 in idea barrages
1.) I’m not sure where the line is between thinking it over and over thinking is I just know I’m on that latter side. 2.) Filmmakers don’t call before-the-bar drinking “pre-gaming”, we call it “e...
1026 in idea barrages
1.) Comedy is in some ways is an autopsy of culture. Picking through the owl pellets society leaves, reconstructing skeletons of meaning. 2.) Actually, they were all wrong. It wasn’t Superman at ...
1025 in idea barrages
1.) Legal/medical/cop procedurals are weird, their strict structure often keeps them from being unwatchable but also from being actually good. Television drama is hard for me these days because I...
isle be there in poetry
Everyone says oh God if the Professor was so smart why couldn’t he fix a boat if he was so smart why couldn’t he built a raft? He was on an island paradise with an elderly couple a gay ...
a brave new upgrade in poetry
all these years we figured the surveillance state would be wall-mounted and forced on us through fear in the end they’re in our pockets and we paid for it in the end big brother broke ...
what we are in poetry
We are a nation founded on the notion of standing up to born-rich bullies then watching them pop like balloons in the face of a real fight. We are a nation founded on the notion of ...
1024 in idea barrages
1.) Your rap-version of Rapunzel will prove once and for all that using a pun that only adults will get isn’t good for a kids’ movie. 2.) If your horror porno comedy isn’t called HAM STROKER’S DR...
1023 in idea barrages
1.) We spoke to each other before we knew how to write. If what you’re writing doesn’t scan as spoken words, revise. 2.) Of course gender’s fluid. Cis, trans, 2-spirit, whatever you are, we’re al...
1022 in idea barrages
1.) If you get Sean Connery drunk enough, he speaks in a clear steady Middle-Atlantic accent. You’d swear he was from Maryland or Delaware. 2.) There’s so much said for successes who fear themsel...
damned near everyone in poetry
when damned near everyone has a camera in their pocket attached to their phone is everyone a filmmaker? is no one a filmmaker? what is a filmmaker? what are you? what am I? when damned near...
1021 in idea barrages
1.) Isn’t a buy one get one free deal at a seafood restaurant really just squid pro quo? 2.) New York State needs more colleges named after role-playing character classes, considering we already ...
1019 in idea barrages
1.) You will put one of those beer helmets on over a cheap Frankenstein costume and refer to yourself as “Drinkinstein”. 2.) Stallone’s line of herbal supplements will be called “Ginkgo Balboa”. ...
1018 in idea barrages
1.) You might wonder where the magazine interview with Mark Mothersbaugh is but, as we all know, the Devo’s in the Details. 2.) You can claim you’re a good golfer all you want but the proof is i...
1017 in idea barrages
1.) I want you to remake key scenes from TERMINATOR except replacing Arnold with a Teddy Ruxpin. 2.) This terrible election makes me mourn the fact that Hunter Thompson isn’t around to comment on...
self-awareness in poetry
There’s nothing more narcissistic than self-deprecation, of course. It by definition involves talking about yourself, talking about myself ‘til I’m hoarse. Whether telling the world...
moth and firefly in poetry
moth fell in love with firefly firefly don’t even know moth followed always from just behind hypnotized by the glow dazed by the light of some far-off thing that’s how dreams tend to go moth...
1016 in idea barrages
1.) “Putinesque” and “Puttanesca”, the stew served in Italian brothels, are nearly the same words because Language Is Wise. 2.) One advantage we have is that the cruelest also tend to be out of t...
two for the diabetes one cuz I eat like shit one for the high blood pressure one for so I don’t have fits two for my aching back four for my aching head through the mirac...
1015 in idea barrages
1.) Robots are a lot like bad movies, loads of fun unless they’re self-aware. 2.) I hope some kid out there has an imaginary friend named The Struggle so she or he can argue that The Struggle is ...
a diamond is just dirty coal transformed by pressure and by time a pearl is just a bit of grit transformed by an oyster’s brine perfume is only whale vomit mixed in with a couple of...
1014 in idea barrages
1.) There have been nights I am so anxiously terrified Trump might win that I can’t sleep at all. This is one of them. 2.) So many social networks become He-Man characters with the addition of a ...
fix me to a star in poetry
fix me to a star and I will sail forever dogged juggernaut fix me to a star and I won’t stop until I pass out or hit land tell me a direction to drive and I will go that way until the t...
1013 in idea barrages
1.) No, it is not classy to refer to your ejaculate as “exclusive member content”, I don’t care if it’s on Patreon or not. 2.) Michael Stipe’s linguistics class will be called “Semiotics For The ...
1012 in idea barrages
1.) The only upside to a zombie apocalypse would be watching undead Bill Hicks fangoriously devour Dennis goddamn Leary. 2.) Have we crowdfunded the five mil to cover some former Apprentice assis...
1011 in idea barrages
1.) The only locker room talk I remember was “how can I get out of running?” 2.) Is there anything funnier than a bully who only knows how to work w/ a lead wither away into nothing when he’s lic...
