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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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I’ve seen The Eels, the vehicle for their front-man Mark Everett, live twice. Once in L.A. with my brother, once in Brooklyn with my then-girlfriend. At the El Rey, their opening act was a Britis...
may 25 in idea barrages
It must be difficult being an archeologist searching for an extant piece of Jesus Christ’s carpentry. The jokes about “getting a stool sample” must be endless. Nonsense is an effective weapon...
may 24 in idea barrages
The Flying Nun’s similarly gifted cousin, The Air Friar. The ATF is coming for you if your smokeless tobacco isn’t up to snuff. There are no accidents or isolated incidents but there sure a...
may 23 in idea barrages
Cloudy omen, scrawled into the street, cloudy omen, what fate will we meet, cloudy omen… I can’t foresee it, will you come true, just what exactly should we do… mercy… At a certain point of a...
prompt: thirst, title: finer than fine in misc. flash fiction
“Hope is the thing with feathers,” she opined, without attribution to Dickinson, as this customer wouldn’t know who Emily Dickinson was. “Hold your hope close to you,” she continued in stark devi...
may 22 in idea barrages
A movie about Lot and Lot’s wife’s love-life called PILLAR TALK. Names that can be sung to the beat of “Elanor Rigby” : Jessica Simpson. In Soviet Russia, thirty-day trial offers YOU. Whe...
may 21 in idea barrages
Is a bong-water enema a high colonic? Jordan Peterson’s gonna make a kids show called “Yo Goebbels Goebbels”. The song kept asking “Who got the Hooch?” but we all knew the answer. It was Tu...
may 20 in idea barrages
The Tachyon. It’s just a matter of time. Crack yourself open an MRE… a meme ready to enjoy. The demarcation between the North and the South is the “Boutta-Fixin Line”. An aged vigilante w...
may 19 in idea barrages
A SUPER hot avocado dip called UNHOLY GUACAMOLE. LESS YOGA PANTS, MORE TOGA PANTS Glider-Man, Glider-Man, friendly neighborhood Glider-Man, slowly falls through the sky, wishes he could rea...
may 18 in idea barrages
Why be “Rasputin” when you could be “FELONIOUS MONK”? A parody of “Shipoopi” from THE MUSIC MAN about ninja video games “Shinobi”. Garfield + Arbuckle = Garfunkle. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. ...
may 17 in idea barrages
With Rupert Friend trending because of some Star Wars thing or another, all I can imagine is a really confusing conversation between Rupert and Frankenstein. “Rupert Friend?” “Rupert Friend?” “...
may 16 in idea barrages
The fact that we are accelerating toward a situation where cryptocurrency will be literally worse for the environment than paper money backed by barrels of crude oil is so deeply 2021. Greed ki...
may 15 in idea barrages
Okay, when the bars start opening up again, here’s the best name for a band ever: Greg T. Nelson. The French have a saying for when you have the exact minimum of something and any less would ...
may 14 in idea barrages
The worst movie merchandising of all time would be a King Kong kink gong. A parody of that “I Don’t Believe The Hype” song about a woman who knows a guy is lying about his height on an online...
may 13 in idea barrages
“I thought you may need a snack after a long evening fighting murder clowns, sir.” “Thanks, Alfred, set it next to the Bat-Computer.” “Your hot-butlered popcorn, sir.” “My what?” Alfred holds a...
may 12 in idea barrages
The best, the brightest, they are quicksilver, gossamer, dissolve like breath in winter, too pure for this botched earth. Its on the rest of us to hold to their commission, do good with our lim...
may 11 in idea barrages
LESS WHODUNNIT, MORE WHYDUNNIT. A generation that knows how to rest but has never known how to truly relax. Even if we’re laid off, even if we’re locked-down-in, even if we sleep ten hours st...
may 10 in idea barrages
If anyone asks you about your dental check-up, just say you had a cavity search. It’s technically true. A head canon where there’s panic at the disco because of the arcade fire next door, cas...
prompt: hum, title: the candyman can't in misc. flash fiction
Charles Bucket peaked in his early tweens, somewhere in the first couple of years after he won that chocolate factory. Well into middle-ages, everyone still called him “Charlie” except for his em...
may 9 in idea barrages
She was the master of mapping out the endocrine system, a regular Gland McNally. The Razzies aren’t enough, we need The Baities, an award ceremony for the worst Oscar-bait shallow failed “art...
may 8 in idea barrages
Something that culturally feels like it must have happened, but didn’t, is Scooby-Doo meeting Gilligan’s Island. They both knew the Globetrotters, you’d figured they would’ve introduced them. ...
may 7 in idea barrages
An Eminem/Smashmouth mash-up (smash-up?) called RAPSTAR built around the line “Some-BODY once told me, don’t eat Mom’s macaroni, you’ll puke when stage-fright goes to your head”. A goth Weeze...
may 6 in idea barrages
Sometimes green highlights in black hair look great if you’re going for a goth or emo thing. Sometimes, though, it fails and just looks like you’ve made your hair an ad for Monster Energy Drink...
may 5 in idea barrages
The clinical term for the fear of Italian food is “fettuccineafraido”. Death-metal covers of Imagine Dragons and you’re called Imagine Dungeons. Unlike Jesus, Hamlet died for all our indeci...
may 4 in idea barrages
I declare that the little flavour-wad in the middle of a store-bought hummus be called “the nugget”. Sometimes you just gotta open a new one because you were really needing the hummus nugget th...
