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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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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. ...
nov 30 in idea barrages
Real talk: how many disability fetishists gonna stare directly into the eclipse with just the WEIRDEST boners? The only thing worse than test-marketed-within-an-inch-of-its-life by-commi...
nov 28 in idea barrages
If you enjoy the eclipse because of the aesthetic beauty or the science of it, that’s wonderful, please enjoy it, but let’s not pretend it’s such a rarity. Eclipses are pretty common, it’s j...
nov 26 in idea barrages
When you’re blanketed in thirst traps on social media, that becomes a thirst tarp. I like to think that Baton Rogue has a suburb, to the south, called Couilles Bleu. Let’s stop calli...
nov 24 in idea barrages
People don’t want to just see naked people anymore. We’re all too inured by all the pornography in history at the touch of a button. You gotta adapt. You gotta go value added. You gotta b...
nov 22 in idea barrages
You know what’d be a bonkers cheapie mash-up flick? MARS NEEDS WOLFMEN. Hitting on Swamp Thing with the line “Get off, my lawn!” CAKE BOSS implies the existence of CAKE HUMAN RESOURC...
prompt: name, title: perfect from now on in idea barrages
“No one will ever love you just for your looks,” she told him off-handed once, “you’d better get real-rich or real-interesting if you don’t wanna end up alone.” Was it a joke? Did she even say i...
nov 20 in idea barrages
A D&D game where the big bad is Zach Morris and his eldritch time-stopping powers. Your players are all basically the other Saved by the Bell kids… Screech is an artificer, Lisa’s a glam...
nov 18 in idea barrages
I’ve never been able to tolerate a full episode of SEX IN THE CITY, of course, I don’t even remember if it’s IN THE CITY or AND THE CITY. But it just feels like there would be an entire epis...
nov 16 in idea barrages
We take our antihistamines to stave off the histameanies. Jesus croaked once and came back, that’s amazing, but Kermit the Frog croaks every day and is still walking around, why is there...
