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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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feb 13 in idea barrages
How has there not been a Zoom fundraiser of some kind where Tilda Swinton stars in a read-through of an old FRASIER script? This seems like a no-brainer to raise money for some cause or another...
feb 12 in idea barrages
The seven or eight same royalty-free songs that all Youtubers use are the elevator music of our time. A leather shirt and body hair, that’s just the bear minimum. A burlesque show themed ar...
feb 11 in idea barrages
I am no man of faith but I know this much, the divine cannot be an excuse to hate, it must be a mandate to love. A cleaned up Johnny Cash song called WHOLESOME PRISON BLUES. A brand of Poli...
feb 10 in idea barrages
Love is our greatest blessing, love is our highest calling, love is our toughest challenge, love is our holy burden, love is the direction, love is the location, love is the speed, love love lo...
feb 9 in idea barrages
That lawyer in the really nice basketball shoes, he is your court-appointed attorney. His brother was also in the cereal navy, as a pastor attached for troop morale. He would consecrate the m...
ossification in poetry
grief replaces memory slower than the tides still getting the job done nonetheless inch by inch one atom at a time like fossilizing bone to eternal stone those fossils...
the big game in poetry
when the alien anthropologists find the massive sport stadia so central to our civic infrastructures as megaliths sprouting cities-within-cities beside they will mistake them as ou...
life goals in poetry
if you’re famous enough when you die they’ll name a street after you somewhere your name will live beyond you somewhere everyone will know your name somewhere if you’re famous enough when y...
leap of faith in poetry
it’s always a goddamned tragedy when a once-transcendent entertainer retreats into conservative safe spaces when the world thinks they’re washed up believing no one’s left to listen except no...
the undiscovered country in poetry
I feel it each unsleeping night my head my heart my soul, they are kingdoms of almost empires of not-quite unquiet with the roar of infinite just-missed grazed up asi...
feb 8 in idea barrages
A parody of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” that’s like “LET’S REST, take off those tight shoes and… rest a few…” It is good to see that we can still come together as a a nation on Thanksgiving ...
feb 7 in idea barrages
The “power of positive thinking” is a confidence job, sold to you so you’ll sit around dreaming and wishing instead of getting in the way of powerful horrors. The Power of Pragmatic Action, tho...
feb 6 in idea barrages
There are no films starring Rob Schneider. Oh, there are films where he is the performer with the most screen time, for sure, but do not let us define down “star” like that. Which would be be...
prompt: settle, title: innocent dumb and lucky in misc. flash fiction
We pretended we were in a movie, that’s how innocent we were, how dumb. We walked up to the perimeter the teachers were holding away from the school then we moved in slow-motion away again. As if...
prompt: hug, title: muddling through in misc. flash fiction
“You may be able to hold your liquor,” the bartender said, “but your liquor isn’t ever gonna hold you. Might hold you back, I don’t know, that might be me undercutting my own business model, but ...
feb 5 in idea barrages
SPECULUM CABLE - JUST LIE BACK AND TAKE IT. The funny thing is how the Q-Anon theories about how “Trump can still win!” are almost exactly the same in form & tone as the tumblr “no no, th...
feb 4 in idea barrages
Yeah, I’m singing “Copa Cabana” about Parappa The Rapper. Proposition One: we all get to be one year younger because this year can’t count. Proposition Two: we all get to be ten years older b...
feb 3 in idea barrages
The magical thinking of New Age frauds and the magical thinking of the Trump/Q-Anon frauds are the same kind of wishful gibberish, transcending any kind of ideology, don’t be surprised when ove...
feb 2 in idea barrages
You wanna know what’d be a worst of both worlds situation? LinkedIn Park. The greatest decadence, the worst hubris of all, is the belief that you’re the good guy in perpetuity. That no matter...
feb 1 in idea barrages
Three hoarders having sex is a garage a trois. Surviving through the darkness, that’s the easy part, the real struggle is making sure the darkness doesn’t survive through you. “Mister Miste...
jan 31 in idea barrages
It’ll be great when Q-Anon realizes that Q is just cherished character actor John deLancie trolling the hell out of them. Every day, more Trump signs disappear. Oh, the people who paid for fo...
jan 30 in idea barrages
It is our paramount moral obligation as humans to ease each others’ suffering. Not to possess or achieve or control, not even to explore or learn or have fun, even though those last few are nic...
jan 29 in idea barrages
Where does the “pop-punk whine” voice come from? Why does every pop punk singer sound like a rich white teenager from Orange County TOTALLY angry that Mom made him work summers at Medieval Time...
jan 28 in idea barrages
Why do only the terrible days feel long? It’s never the great days, y’know, those fly by like a gnat’s fart in the breeze. The bad ones just drag. If this horror show surprised you, you have ...
prompt: bank, title: earthly remains in misc. flash fiction
“Clearly,” the lecturer pointed at the projection of the photograph, “it was a holy site for peoples’ of its time, though the fact there seems to have been two competing groups with differing rit...
