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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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The mythological creature as tourism hook is hardly new, of course. Shysters have been selling crude plesiosaur carvings at Loch Ness in Scotland since the 500s, before the word “plesiosaur” was ...


June 04, 2024

june 5 in idea barrages

For those of your obsessed with age limits in American politics, as if that’s someone one of the more pressing problems, just be careful what you wish for, that absolute record-setting moron Vi...


June 02, 2024

june 3 in idea barrages

To this day, I still read “Cardi B” as “Car dib” when I first see it. Part of the difficulty of being a man in his early forties is that you’re shopping and there’s a 30 year old woman and he...


May 31, 2024

june 1 in idea barrages

In the right font, “Shrek” looks like “Sarek” and so if you’re looking to create a new nerdy mash-up meme, you could do a lot worse than fusing Shrek with Spock’s dad. Communion wafers are a ...


“Aged cheese, I can mostly handle,” Frank said, picking at a veggie omelet with a fork his hand made look comically under-sized, “anything with a lot of unconverted lactose, however?” Frank opene...


May 29, 2024

may 30 in idea barrages

A special detergent for washing blankets called “Oil of Duvet”. A medieval paladin Superman whose arch-nemesis is a bard named Lex Luthier. If only we could get the world to stop mistaking ...


May 27, 2024

may 28 in idea barrages

I’ve accepted I’ll never be able to play a game that requires more unique inputs than a Sega Genesis paddle provides. I had terrible hand-to-eye coordination even before I was old, now I’m also...


May 25, 2024

may 26 in idea barrages

I’m here to do two things, have sex and change the world, and I’m possessed of a frustratingly long refractory period. A comedy act called “Yakov Smirnov’s Grandson Jacob Smith” and you say t...


May 23, 2024

may 24 in idea barrages

Frankenstein performed the first team-building exercise and we all saw how that all turned out. I like to think that Liam Neeson does all these all these awful low-budget geezer-teaser direct...


May 23, 2024

annual perennial in poetry

(poetry contest entry for Dolgeville’s silver-anniversary of its violet festival) silver bells chime out the summer-time blooming across the ruddy-dusky skies as if Christmas bulbs strung up on h...


The sailor indeed said “Brandy, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be… but my life, my love and my lady is the sea”. That much is entirely accurate, but you gotta understand, that’s a...


May 21, 2024

may 22 in idea barrages

Ben Grimm gets kicked out of the Baxter Building and has to move in with Peter Parker, but needs to figure out how to do this without revealing to the world that Parker is also Spider-Man and t...


May 19, 2024

may 20 in idea barrages

Are there stories about the Transylvania Colony in America, before it was divided between Kentucky and Tennessee, being the ACTUAL place vampires come from and they covered up their existence w...


May 18, 2024

may 18 in idea barrages

I choose to believe the famous Rochester David Bowie mugshot was due to a fight after calling some food somewhere “garbage” and that’s how the Rochester Garbage Plate was named, as Bowie deserv...


May 17, 2024

blessings in poetry

I hope you die I hope you die ugly I hope you die fat and ugly I hope you die fat and ugly and old I hope you die old I hope you die having accomplished so many things having touched so ...


May 16, 2024

john henry blues in poetry

a long time gone ago john henry was a man a long gone time ago he was a steel-driving man but now don’t misunderstand don’t let your senses leave he was ...


the best ever hair metal band in San Dimas were a couple of guys who’d been friends since grade school one was named Bill and the other was Ted and they practiced twice a week in the garage by th...


Iowa existed, once. It really did. There were places in America, on the Earth, where you couldn’t be part of the celebrity-industrial complex, no matter how hard you tried. You were too far away,...


May 15, 2024

may 16 in idea barrages

You know, one shame I hadn’t felt yet was shame for being part of the same species that created the “The Fast and the Furious” film franchise. But it really is something to be ashamed of, even ...


May 13, 2024

may 14 in idea barrages

Is the equivalent of “Easter-Christmas Catholic” “Solstice-Solstice Pagan”? Chalupacabra - The Bland Ground Beef Sucker. Art is a mirror. When people see what they don’t like, they are seei...


May 11, 2024

may 12 in idea barrages

Utz: the only snack chip brand that is also one of the handful of sounds in rave music. I certainly can’t imagine Rob Thomas turning down the opportunity to get paid to promote an instant mas...


May 09, 2024

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A Coverdale-Page cover band just called “Dale Page”. A parody of “All-Star” that opens with the lines “Rhett BUTLER once told me / the dude don’t wanna know me / said frankly, dear, he don’t ...


“Your son is a wonderful writer for his age,” Miss Sobiecki told my parents or at least something approximate to that through thirtyish years of gauzy memory, “but that doesn’t mean I can read a ...


May 07, 2024

may 8 in idea barrages

You have the right to say wherever the story starts and stops for you. Intellectual property law has become a farce and story canon, doubly so. It begins and ends where you need it to. Don’t ...


May 05, 2024

may 6 in idea barrages

Your skeleton warrior will ride a zombie horse named Chivalry into battle. When asked how it got that name, your skeleman will simply say (however a skeleman talks, with no mouth or lungs, I’m ...


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