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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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925 in idea barrages
1.) Your science-rock band’s name will be Density’s Child. 2.) Your renaissance emo band will be called Alchemical Romance. 3.) It’s like the song said, three is a magi number. 4.) Of course SUNY...
I did a TED talk! in life stuff and misc.
At TEDxUtica this month! It’s about using comedy to bring people back together in this increasingly split culture. Give it a look, if you like. Share it around if you would, I’d like to get the m...
924 in idea barrages
1.) Where are all the Missy Elliot/Elliott Smith mash-ups I want? I want those a lot, I don’t even know why. 2.) The hipster choked himself with a My Little Pony bedsheet and died of auto-ironic ...
923 in idea barrages
1.) Do not blame people for being mad that the police are killing people for no sane reason. Be mad that the police are killing people. 2.) In lighter news, no one seems to want the National Leag...
wouldn't it be nice in poetry
You are not perfect, I’m sure of it, but you’re probably perfect for someone. You’ll be perfect because of your strengths not despite your weaknesses even though you’ll always have weakness...
922 in idea barrages
1.) “Alt-Right” is a damn polite term for what are actually “Nazi hipsters”. 2.) Maybe public breastfeeding would be less controversial if we just refereed to the phenomena as “suckle moms”. 3.) ...
arbitrary day in poetry
It was Talk Like A Pirate Day a few days ago which was, of course, was desperately annoying a lot of people took the thing too farrrrr look around, you know who you arrr do pirates have Talk ...
921 in idea barrages
1.) Sadly, her pitch for a stoner sitcom was rejected because it was too high concept. 2.) Long Island Medium? More like LONG ISLAND EXTRA LARGE DISGUSTING FRAUD EXPLOITING THE BEREAVED OH MY GOD...
#trumpaquote in idea barrages
1.) We have nothing to fear except for people not fearing enough. 2.) Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can doom for your country. 3.) I cannot tell a lie. I tell many many ...
920 in idea barrages
1.) I want to write a really dark “Why did the Chechen cross the road?” joke for Yakov Smirnov. 2.) Conspiracy theorists are a bunch of DARPA queens. 3.) When you volunteer for your church, are y...
919 in idea barrages
1.) When you complain about the stupid goddamned names at Starbucks, you are venti-ing. 2.) If you’re ever writing for DC Comics, try to sneak in a growing superheroine on the L.E.G.I.O.N. called...
918 in idea barrages
1.) Your JANE AUSTEN/90s ROCK fan fiction mash-up will have Elizabeth Bennett fall in love with D’Arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins. 2.) Had TRU BLOOD, the show about vampire drugs, come out a few ...
how your thirties will go in poetry
carbon-based though we are we still seem pretty squishy standing at the start of our prime still we are just water and carbon we can be shaped into diamond with just enough pressure and tim...
917 in idea barrages
1.) The story of Adam and Eve involves a lot of good-natured ribbing. 2.) Whoever heard the movie was gonna be called “The Love Bug” and so made its name sound like “Herpes” is my hero. 3.) “LOL”...
916 in idea barrages
1.) If there are only three Spice Girls left, does that make them The Sparse Girls? 2.) Instead of saying “I’m thirsty” yell “I AM FULL OF PARCHMENT!” 3.) If you remade MORK AND MINDY with Mindy ...
camel through a needle's eye in poetry
there are those who would be driven cruel crazy and weird by the assurances of bedrock faith picture us agnostics as dry drunks in the face of comforting madness if I was sure of anything I ...
temp track in poetry
tempus fugit tempest fugitives we’re all on the run from the oncoming storm that’s the passage of time in the fudging of our memories in the temples of the mind tempus fugit tempest f...
science fiction triple feature in poetry
the beauty of science fiction is you’re writing about things that probably haven’t happened that maybe can never happened but at least haven’t happened yet so your metaphors can t...
lightbulb in the empty house next door flickers like someone is saying hello but “like” does not always make it so my heart says yes but my head says no whether it is fa...
Profanity just means dealing with the profane dealing with the possible divine dealing with holy. Don’t let ‘em tell you you don’t have the right to wrestle with profanity to st...
ides of september barrage in idea barrages
1.) No, actually the worst pick-up line ever is “Did you fall from the heavens? Because those are two meaty orbs.” 2.) The lead in TWILIGHT was just going through her vlad-boy phase. 3.) People w...
the calling in poetry
If you do it to get rich, you’ll go broke. If you do it to get famous, you’ll go mad in the process. If you do it because it’s all that you’re good at, you will have a fighting chance. ...
The upside to scary things is you get the opportunity to overcome ‘em. Your differences aren’t curses, they’re gifts to make you realize everyone’s different, to fill you with compassion and ...
science-fiction double feature in poetry
The one major difference between science-fiction and religion is if the person who wrote it all down believed that it actually happened if they believe that the story they’re ...
914 in idea barrages
1.) The racists and homophobes that are leading the charge from the far right ARE one deplorable mass. Deploribus Unum, them. 2.) Everybody sends their loved ones little pictures of David Lee Rot...
