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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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oct 9 in idea barrages
Updating the cataloguing for the reference section of the library where I work, I realized at last what people did before facebook: extensive exhaustive family genealogies. As a person who su...
oct 8 in idea barrages
I think if you wanted to come up with the worst aesthetic ever, “the bastard child of Ed Hardy and Lisa Frank” would be a good place to start. Do the neo-fascists know that whenever we see th...
oct 7 in idea barrages
Does Oscar The Grouch refer to a one-night-stand as a “grump-and-dump”? Some lessons about British history are literally Tutorials. A candy tie-in to the new DUNE movie: “Many Great Sweets ...
oct 6 in idea barrages
PAUL BLART MALL COP 3: ACHY-BREAKY BLART A cut of vegan meat substitute called “beef pretenderloin”. Whenever someone’s complaining about Big Pharma, pretend you think they’re saying “Big F...
oct 5 in idea barrages
Rival emos battle each other in sadiatorial combat. You will perform mediocre neo-Celtic rock tripe but at least it will all the lyrics be about Bill Murray films. You will carve out a cult n...
prompt: empty, title: after ever after in misc. flash fiction
“Is this place hallowed,” asked the cleric, canvassing what remained after the awful battle, “or is it merely hollowed-out?” “I don’t follow,” replied the bard, his only friend who had survived t...
oct 4 in idea barrages
A southern-rock alternative to the R&B/Soul of the California Raisins called “The Almond Brothers”. People thought ODB was singing all nasty about sex when, really, he just really loved s...
oct 3 in idea barrages
On one hand, of course we should make fun of Nickelback. They are bad and they should feel bad. On the other, it’s weird to focus all the scorn JUST on them. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, the...
oct 2 in idea barrages
Yes, a normal spider is disturbing, but imagine a DADDY LUNG LEGS. Just… lungin’ around all lungy. A square slice of cheap pizza is a cesarean section. Why say “plagurism” when you can say ...
oct 1 in idea barrages
A hot dog stand review site called “frank.li”. I wasn’t being sarcastic when I said “oh, he’s still alive, good for him” when I saw that the guy who played Carlton on Fresh Prince is apparent...
sept 30 in idea barrages
My knowledge base is ultimately a lot like a Kardashian: annoyingly shallow yet pleasingly wide. Success is fleeting and rare but in failure? In failure, baby, we are all united. Where woul...
sept 29 in idea barrages
If they were going to call the show “The Big Bang Theory” then they owed us witnessing all the characters dying a heat death in the end. It would’ve been the first interesting thing to happen i...
maybe it helps in poetry
it helps to remind yourself you’re the one who chose to be here maybe just to learn a lesson maybe to perform some noble deed maybe to fulfill a cosmic lark maybe provide a solid ...
sept 28 in idea barrages
She was briefly obsessed with lawn darts but that was just a summer fling. The lawns have risen to overthrow their suburban oppressors in GERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT HAY. Batman was disappointe...
sept 27 in idea barrages
Did Futurama ever have a gag about a cologne advertised with a grizzled old-timey astronaut called Old Space? It just seems like a joke they’d make. An Indian-Israeli fusion dish called Tikka...
sept 26 in idea barrages
The terrible truth of the world is, even if something is ethically cut and dried, that doesn’t make a potential lasting solution any less nuanced. We are in a world of troubles that shouldn’t b...
prompt: autumn, title: autumn leaves in misc. flash fiction
He nicknamed her “Autumn” and she thought it was adorable, she thought it was a reference to the dark brown of her eyes, the rust-red of her hair, her freckles like speckles on a half changed map...
sept 25 in idea barrages
(to the tune of All-Star) Rheeeeeett BUT-ler once told me, that he don’t wanna know me, said frankly that he don’t give a damn.... When call it an “acting teacher” when you could call it a “s...
sept 24 in idea barrages
Someone must be a checkers grand-master. Ah yeah, the founding of a vanity political party, the desperate act of a narcissist running out of ways to glom the spotlight. Maybe the lyrics of ...
sept 23 in idea barrages
I wonder if the Australians got revenge on us by advertising “Coors… American for Beer” on their native shores. Your terrible rap-metal song about Super Mario Brothers 3 will be called “I Did...
prompt: word, title: without a trace in misc. flash fiction
A labelscar is a word within a word. Or maybe it’s more of a word without a word. A labelscar is what gets left behind when a word has stood for so long that the world has changed around it but i...
sept 22 in idea barrages
We could totally call fan-conventions “stan mixers”. If only cooking reality shows had their contestants come out to personal theme songs, like professional wrestlers or closing relief pitche...
sept 21 in idea barrages
Imagine enjoying media w/out a need to engage in fandom, endless discourse with the like-minded. None of the external validation of discussion & fanwank, no drama, no setting up camps or su...
sept 20 in idea barrages
It’s like half renaissance fair, half murder mystery dinner. It’s a madrigal mystery tour! On the way to a drive-in movie, like a semi-responsible human being in still-uncertain times, drove ...
sept 19 in idea barrages
A film about an attempt to populate an entire amusement park with Christopher Walken clones that goes terribly wrong called “WALKEN THE PARK”. The “Joe Rogan Experience” is having a tiny man ...
