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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.
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prompt: gem, title: lake woebegon on opposite day in misc. flash fiction
I don’t think she meant anything cruel when she said it, I had little doubt toward her sincerity. “You should run for Alderman,” she said as I left the booth, “your grandfather and dad were both...
interdependence day in idea barrages
Only half the problem of AI stealing from/replacing human artists is the AI existing and being used. The other half is a country that has so devalued education in the arts and letters that peop...
elegy for the guilty in poetry
those cops just threw him in the river the rocks were what bashed out his brain and you can’t press a charge on a river that would be wholesale insane they’re all just ...
jl2 in idea barrages
Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me All” except the bass solo is replaced by the entirety of the opening theme to SEINFELD. The oddest thing about emotions is that, like, there are times we don’t k...
june 30 in idea barrages
If I had to create a crossover character for The Food Fighters and The Barnyard Commandos, I guess I’d make him an ovine fry cook called The Battering Ram. No, the WEIRDEST Shakespeare based ...
“My parents,” Dakota said gently, “my uncles, their generations were not going down without a fight against fighting.” “So,” Bobby sputtered incredulous, “they gathered a bunch of theoretical phy...
june 28 in idea barrages
A penny thrown into an actual functioning wishing well, that’s life changing money. Any amount of money, no matter how big or how small, spent at a brothel is technically “fuck you money”. ...
silence is golden and I’m goddamned near broke silence is golden it’s soft and it’s rarer than hen’s teeth in a vegan restaurant it’s precious and lusted after hoarded and often stolen when no...
june 26 in idea barrages
I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that exercising more would make me LESS tired. I get it, I get it, stamina, muscle growth, blah blah blah, but it just fundamentally violates my unders...
june 24 in idea barrages
The way the morning of February 10th briefly looked like a respite from winter, green grass peeking out through melting snow at the curbsides, up here we call that Fool’s Spring. Winter is gonn...
june 22 in idea barrages
LESS DONATING YOUR BODY TO SCIENCE, MORE DONATING YOUR BODY TO MAGIC A mash-up of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem’s “Can You Picture That”. ...
They had hoped connecting every mind on the continent psychically, even for one split-second, would manifest as a love that overwhelmed all other impulses, leaving America with a chance to breath...
june 20 in idea barrages
Why did I never realize how much Dwight Schrute looked like Garrison Keillor. It was right there. It was right there. Why say “industrial spy” when you can say “the office deceptionist”? An...
june 18 in idea barrages
You might think Viagra will uncomplicate your life but, really, you’re just making it hard on yourself. I think the thing is, it’s better to say I’m trying my best to be an ally than to say I...
june 16 in idea barrages
A classy BBC remake of “Bridesmaids” called “Bridesmaid Revisited”. The “Father and Son” scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 helped me finally realize that a lot of Flaming Lips songs are basi...
you have to save everyone. if you can’t save everyone, save as many as you can. if you can’t save anyone, save yourself for later. if you can’t save yourself, at least save ...
Once Reagan “bit the wax tadpole”, as Kurt laconically described the assassination, Secretary of State Alexander Haig stepped in swiftly to seize control of the presidential powers as a “Martial ...
parody of Coyotes by Modest Mouse in song parodies
bronson pinchot and the blades in the dark playing a show in new york’s central park they aren’t aware he’s a serial killer of those who look like his old co-star mark as they die, he claims the...
june 14 in idea barrages
A knock-off Eggo box with the catchphrase “Get offle my waffle!” I just realized that Andrew Tate looks like an elderly Don Knotts with a little more muscle definition and a bad spray tan. ...
june 12 in idea barrages
The beauty of Paris can be overwhelming, that’s why they call it Eyefull Tower. She understood that some people had their own favourite Italian restaurants but that wasn’t her way. She liked ...
june 10 in idea barrages
Many of the things we think we know about Harland Sanders are wild exaggerations but most do contain a colonel of truth. A series of urban legends about a cursed soupmaker roaming the streets...
ludwig von drake in poetry
all you gotta do is change your name to be a pop star or a rock star or a rap star all you gotta do is paint your face like someone else hide the fact you were born super rich or claim yo...
on the birthday of the Grimace in poetry
my working theory on The Grimace is since he was originally a shake stealing villain with four arms but is now Ronald’s mentally dim sidekick the Grimace’s brains are distributed throughout th...
june 8 in idea barrages
Maybe all spiders can write words into their webs like Charlotte but most of them are into death metal and they’re just doing those logos for death metal bands no one can actually read. Nothi...
“Philboyd,” the taller uncle finally moved away from Dakota toward Bobby, “let the kid be, huh” then he corrected himself, “let the five-hundred-year-old time-traveler be, he’s clearly in a lot o...
