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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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aug8 in idea barrages
“And you honour the presidents with a holiday?” Washington asked the time-traveler. “Yes!” “What do you… do for this holiday?” “Sell mattresses.” “Sell mattresses?” “Sell. Mattresses.” A...
prompt: side, title: the flattening of affectations in idea barrages
Jackie Gleason owned three sets of wardrobes. One for the winters playing golf in Florida, one for his live show touring and one for his time spent working on television projects in New York Cit...
aug6 in idea barrages
All-Star games made sense when casual fans had no easy way to watch all the stars they wanted to on any given night. There’s kind of no fan-experience point to an All Star game now, other th...
aug4 in idea barrages
HAMILTON but it’s about Linda Hamilton. 15 hip-hop musical numbers about what a douche-nozzle James Cameron is. You will cover the Moody Blues as country line dance songs as THE BOOTY MO...
aug2 in idea barrages
Just singing to myself, to the tune of Du Hast, “TOO/TOO HOT/TOO HOT FOR/TOO HOT FOR T.V./TOO/TOO HOT/TOO HOT FOR/TOO HOT FOR T.V.” Probably the greatest crossover between progressive ro...
prompt: wonder, title: the forest of the night in misc. flash fiction
When the light left the star in the sky you gazed up at last night, dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. The beam that left their sun that eve, as you stared at its distant echoing, will arrive h...
j31 in idea barrages
A rockabilly warlock that constantly casts Elvis Blast. A country song called “Don’t Look For Love At Harbor Freight, Even If You Find It, Your Heart Will Break Three Days Later”. Fo...
j29 in idea barrages
Only reason Clark Kent could afford the terrible pay at the beginning of a journalism career was that he could commute from his spacious affordable polar fortress and could literally eat by ...
j27 in idea barrages
Nostalgia is the past eating the future while the present is being lied to that its own belly is full. It’s always important to remember that punk was created by upscale London fashion d...
j25 in idea barrages
Ian Miles Cheong implies the existence of Ian Miles Cheeech, the most obnoxious anarcho-capitalist stoner of all time. Some kind of combination of a Ouija board and a slide guitar. Or at...
“Or maybe,” Frank said as he left a wad of grubby bills on the table under the sugar shaker, “just blue-skying here, but maybe you’re too hard on yourself? Maybe you found your dream honestly an...
j23 in idea barrages
The agility and dexterity she inherited from her family, parkour was a cinch for her. You might say she did it with… relative ease. ALL AROUND THE WORLD, STATUES CRUMBLE FOR ME / I’M REA...
hopes beyond hope in poetry
the undead hide in the living room you took for granted what’s in grant’s tomb it’s four-twenty, it’s not high noon the whos are asking why teleconferencing face-to-face your inner world is...
j21 in idea barrages
If you use your zap gun to commit regicide on the Prince of Space, that’s just laser heir removal, baby A Blue Oyster Cult parody “Don’t Squeeze The Charmin”? You know what’d be a gr...
j19 in idea barrages
Move to Montana’s capital. Start a restaurant called “Helena’s Ham Basket”. It will be worth it, if only for the meme. This push to re-invent Martha Stewart as a feminist icon is so biza...
Frank eventually asked me, what brings a person to spend Their Twenties trying to get famous in Los Angeles. God help me, I knew the exact answer. While I may not have been able to articulate it...
j17 in idea barrages
If it’s a concept album, is the lead single a premise single? The “Hang In There, Baby” cat poster, except its on a crucifix and it says “Hang In There, Baby… It’s Friday!” Why say “...
j15 in idea barrages
“Who is this ED,” she asked, “and why does he need so many boner pills?” “Quick! There’s been an accident in the transporter room and it’s duplicating Chief O’Brien!” “With the transport...
july 13 in idea barrages
It’s always important to remember that the “heroes” of the Alamo only fought that battle because they didn’t want Mexico to force them to emancipate their slaves. And they lost! Handily! Tha...
july 11 in idea barrages
It’s the law of the cold cuts: sometimes you eat the paper, sometimes you eat the cheese. “Trade,” it muttered, “commerce, transactions, dealings.” Oh no, we all thought, this thing mean...
It’s unfair, though, when I say that these are things Los Angeles does to us. That’s kinda true but there’s so much more to it. Better said than “what Los Angeles does to us” is “what Los Angele...
july 9 in idea barrages
The guy from OPERATION won’t go out with you because he knows you’ll just play games with his heart. An Elseworlds where Superman’s rocket took a faster path to Earth and landed in early...
j7 in idea barrages
A rich divorced white lady goes to a cereal factory tour and falls in love with the Froot Loops mascot, rediscovering her passion for life, in UNDER A TOUCAN SUN. Marijuana strains named...
j5 in idea barrages
The kiddie rides at the local park were heat-activated colour-changing mood swings. Every statue of a dragon is a scale model. It’s your last-ditch cheese, in queso emergency. Wi...
For four or five years of My Time Spent in Los Angeles I worked as the lowest level assistant in a director’s office. One of my teenage heroes, to be honest. I was absolutely in love with his ea...
