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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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may 15 in idea barrages
If Vanilla Ice had made Ice Ice Baby in 2023, it wouldn’t have been “tip to my waitress” it would’ve been “link to my socials”. Look into your heart, young Skywalker, you know it to be true. ...
may 13 in idea barrages
A shirt with a drawing of a drill on it and the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une perceuse”. Honestly, Chatbots probably can’t make popular comedy worse than popular comedy is doing right now. IF PR...
There wasn’t much extraordinary about the person lying where the machine had once been, apart from the fact he’d appeared out of thin air as it exploded. That in-and-of itself was extraordinary, ...
may 11 in idea barrages
The problem with wanting to be a tether between others is it means you’re tethered too. If you want to be a spider feeling all the web’s vibrations, it means you’re stuck on the web. It isn’t n...
may 9 in idea barrages
When I came to realize there are people who use “funny” for radically different ideas, things started to make sense. Some folks call “funny” the feeling they get from having their worldview rei...
may 7 in idea barrages
The trombone is nature’s slide whistle. What would be fun would be PUBLIC SCHOOL DETECTIVE, a P.I. who solves crimes on the strength of otherwise utterly useless knowledge we’re given in Amer...
may 5 in idea barrages
All the Robins form a rock band and go on tour. Dracula shows up backstage after their Romanian show to congratulate them on their performance. “Ah, the children of the Knight,” he says, “what ...
prompt: act, title: beating the odds in misc. flash fiction
In 2025, CERN’s Hadron Supercollider team announced they’d invented a machine to observe a person’s parallel timelines. I couldn’t say how, something-something string theory, anything past interm...
may 3 in idea barrages
You know what would be the beautifully stupidest Marvel - Disney mash-up, though? Spider-Man’s Carnage and Talespin’s Don Karnage. If you try to hide in plain sight by reading THE STRANGER, y...
may 1 in idea barrages
My brain is singing a parody of “Do You Know The Muffin Man” about a shady muffler repair shop. Used to be, the easiest way to rile up someone into anime was to jokingly call it “japanimation...
violet ultra violet in poetry
at the very edge of what is seen violet churns, some soft machine of indigo-glow and purpled gleam beyond it, seen only by the bees those ultraviolet codes in trees bu...
ap29 in idea barrages
Sometimes I wanna have a tiny shred of faith in the film industry, that they’ll eventually stop going with the 1st stupid idea that came to mind, but then I see that they turned the “M” in SCRE...
being there in poetry
there’s not much point running from you are no way you’ll get far not by fame or by feet not by drugs or by car there’s not much point because wherever you might ever stop running that...
Tzar and Tzimmerman in poetry
Bob Dylan never lived in the Empire State Building but back when he was known as King Zim, he did climb it while carrying Joan Baez in one giant meaty hairy hand and scaling the side of t...
prompt: jar, title: to catch a phrase in misc. flash fiction
Folks are huge on the concept of The Memory Palace, these days. It isn’t anything new, some earliest version goes back to proto-Greek philosophizers who believed if you wrote everything down, you...
ap27 in idea barrages
Found out there’s a band called “Inhaler”. If they toured with Weezer would they cancel out? Would they annihilate into pure energy? Try to convince someone that the new Tik Tok phrase for bu...
the devil is a gun in poetry
oh dull preacher-man you don’t have to tell this fella bout hell a place that eats men and shits out murder I’ve known that place since I was quite young it’s where my dad worked i...
pocket litany in poetry
were I here to judge I would’ve been born with a pounding gavel and a white powdered wig instead I was born with ears and hands and a mouth that’s too big over these many years I’ve co...
ap25 in idea barrages
If only listening to John Nougat-Mallowmar was physically possible for me, without bleeding from my eyes, ears and a few other places, I could probably whip up a quality parody about My Little ...
ap23 in idea barrages
It’s funny how the British monarchy works now, no longer directly powerful but a useful distraction from the myriad actual problems in the UK. They used to have all the bread, now they’re the d...
ap21 in idea barrages
You won’t be able to put this construction-site simulator video game down, it’s absolutely riveting. If you’re a stripper in northern New York, consider the stage name “Wintry Mix”. For like ...
prompt: medium, title: the medium is the message in misc. flash fiction
Elaine was not a happy medium. It’d been a long time since she’d been happy if she’d ever been happy at all. She’d been miserable for years, from long before her recent situation, running from th...
ap 19 in idea barrages
Still don’t understand how 83% of youtube power couples are a good-looking-but-socioemotionally-stunted woman & a barely-closeted twink just along for the fame ride/maybe because he wants t...
apr 17 in idea barrages
A parody of Madonna’s “Erotic” built around the line “Orthotic, Orthotic, Sound Footwear Is Healing Your Body”. LESS CORPORATE LADDER, MORE CORPORATE M.C. ESCHER 4TH-DIMENSIONAL STAIRCASE TO ...
apr 15 in idea barrages
Kleenex really brings people together. It’s a connective tissue. I just realized that they could’a called 21 JUMP STREET “TALES FROM THE NARC SIDE”. Writing can’t be a bloodletting, because...
