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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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jan 17 in idea barrages
The boa killed the first two fluteplayers and yet nevertheless, she was undeterred. She just smiled. “Third time’s the charmer.” I recently saw a self help book called The Courage To Be Rich ...
jan 16 in idea barrages
Once every four years, end of February, we should all just stop what we’re doing and binge watch Quantum Leap for a day. If you’re born rich, you shouldn’t get credit for making yourself more...
It took Margaret Nussbaum years to become The Amazing Mitzi, according to Frank Yetti, to reach the modest success she’d attained as a stage mage. She hadn’t started as a slight-of-hand artist al...
jan 15 in idea barrages
Collecting Garfield crap would be a good hobby because you could never stop. There was so much variety of Garfield crap churned out in the 80s that no one will never know how it all. Devoting y...
jan 14 in idea barrages
If only “Starf” was a word in English, I could make some really great Nintendo “Starf Ox” jokes. Maaaaaybe an Icelandic retro-gamer would enjoy a joke about the hard-working (starf means work i...
jan 13 in idea barrages
“Religion is the opiate of the masses” meant… it is a powerful short-term balm to pain, which it is. But you get dependent on it if you don’t repair the underlying damage, it consumes you while...
jan 12 in idea barrages
The macro opposition to free college has nothing to do with its cost and everything to do with how it would delay entry to the workforce, thinning out unemployment and taking away big business’...
jan 11 in idea barrages
Truck dealerships are full of pick-up lines. Reduced Fat means More Sugar. No Sugar means Carcinogenic Sugar Substitutes. There are no quick fix solutions, only precariously balanced trade of...
phantom limb syndrome in poetry
that tingling feeling as if your soul has fallen fast asleep that prickle at the back of your everything you leaned on your consciousness for too long something has been pinched it has slu...
j10 in idea barrages
If I ever met John Leguizamo, I am almost certain I would slip up and call him Log Jenuizamo. We must be kind to each other, much as we can, in the moments we’re in, and we can undo all this ...
the turning away in poetry
dream it build it knock it down don’t look now here it comes again mandala mandala mandal manda mand man ma m dream it build it ...
jan 9 in idea barrages
The holiday season is so extended these days, it feels like they’re putting up Happy Hondadays decorations the day after Hondaween. Observation alters outcome. Subatomic particles in experime...
keyword: moan, title: rote memorization in misc. flash fiction
This life is a series of lessons on the subject of letting things go. Avoid learning these lessons at your own peril because the lessons will continue to be taught, whether you want to accept the...
jan 8 in idea barrages
Craaaaaanberry bidet… the kind they prescribe if your UTI’s sore… James Cameron trying to make Avatar still a thing like a white girl on Twitter trying to make slang she heard Ru Paul say onc...
jan 7 in idea barrages
Bail reform ain’t about “criminals going free”. It’s about those accused of crimes not being punished extra for being poor. You all have some deep economic Stockholm Syndrome if you cant see th...
jan 6 in idea barrages
IKEA killed early 90s metal by using up all the umlauts. Paul Rudd ate Dick Clark’s heart and gained his power. A pastry in the form of Adam Driver called “Phyllo Ren”. Arranged marriage ...
jan 5 in idea barrages
I like to believe that King Vitaman cereal is no longer made because there was a bloody anti-royalist revolution and he was probably replaced by, oh, Comrade Crunch. When Bizarro Superman tri...
jan 4 in idea barrages
A country cover of “Hey Ya” called “Yee Haw” would be 100,000 more legitimate fusion of country and hip-hop than “Old Town Road”. “You are the walking embodiment of the avian flu virus!” she ...
consolation prize in poetry
if it’s any consolation you make ennui look good beauty isn’t everything a fact well understood but if this life is suffering there is something to be said for making it look so good
causalties of war in poetry
we managed to make the release of a new Star Wars movie into a collective cultural colonoscopy an uncomfortable begrudging obligation something nobody wants to actually do but you’re afraid ...
the way we weren't in poetry
we aspirated on our aspirations we consumed and consumed until we coughed up blood from consumption wallowed so far in the depths of fantasy the coma was inevitable we were Americans until...
jan 3 in idea barrages
We aspirated on our aspirations, we consumed until we started coughing up from consumption, wallowed so far in the depths of our dreams the coma was inevitable. We were Americans until we Ameri...
jan 2 in idea barrages
Is a gluten free girlfriend a GF GF? If you consider that mayo is half eggs, when you’re making chicken salad, the mother and child reunion is truly only an emulsion away. We’ve managed to ...
jan 1 in idea barrages
The year 20-20, you will have two critical rolls to play. Your movie about a crazy road race through zombie country will be called CANNIBAL RUN. It’s like vampires say, red sky at night, im...
dec 31 bonus barrage blow-out (360 weird ideas!) in idea barrages
Sunday night into Monday morning, we will have anything from a dusting to a foot and a half of snow, depending how desperate for clicks the given news site is. Papa John looks like a melting...
