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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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sept 18 in idea barrages
At its best, writing can be generative meditation, a meditative state that produces work while refocusing your mind. It can be a waking dream, the same defragmentation REM state creates. Most o...
sept 17 in idea barrages
You know what the trick was with the loaves & fish? The crowd was starved, even a bit would be a feast to each. Jesus & Friends could’ve had a light nosh but for a crowd it was a little...
prompt: dog, title: values and costs in misc. flash fiction
The communists shot Laika into space, just because they could, just to prove a point. This wasn’t for the science, of course, it was a dominance play, to show off to the world. They knew that she...
sept 16 in idea barrages
A musical version of King Kong called APE MISBEHAVIN’. Speed dating at the Michaels and they call it “Craft Singles”. Flanders, Long Island has big duck energy. A pre-owned car and a post...
sept 15 in idea barrages
A parody of Steely Dan’s “FM” about satellite radio. “No signal at all, no signal at all, no signal at all… XM, no signal at all!” If you care about the deaths of a dozen Marines because it s...
sept 14 in idea barrages
A dark comedy about factory workers damned to keep working their jobs even in death as ghosts called “Time Sheets”. A mystery about the journey to find a stolen family heirloom called “The Qu...
sept 13 in idea barrages
During that brief period when people were ironically into sea shanties, you could’ve cashed in with the band name “The Pillage People” but that opportunity too is now lost to time like tears in...
sept 12 in idea barrages
Do not name your meats before putting them in the oven. No, not even “Isabella Roastalini”. That’s clever, of course, but still morally wrong. It’s too bad Elektra isn’t the quippy sort becau...
sept 11 in idea barrages
A great song about synesthesia would be “She Blinded Me With Silence”. Sonic the Hedgehog refuses chili dogs during Lent. If you ask him why, he will respond “Gotta go fast.” The part of th...
sept 10 in idea barrages
If you get caught between the moon and New York City, best that you can do is hope that you’re at the equilibrium point where you’ll just float until you suffocate and freeze to death, as oppos...
sept 9 in idea barrages
You pour a mimosa over your Crunch Berries. Congratulations, you have created Cap’n Brunch, the saddest invention of all. Kiefer Sutherland has a fully-absorbed vestigial conjoined twin named...
sept 8 in idea barrages
Upon reflection, Burger King’s “Have It Your Way” slogan was incredibly passive-aggressive. It would be like McDonalds having a “You Think You Know Better Than Us, Huh?” slogan or Taco Bell run...
prompt: surrender, title: the sacrifice play in misc. flash fiction
“The hardest thing in your life is rarely something you do once or a handful of times,” she said, “no matter how difficult. Childbirth, killing in war, those take seconds or hours.” She allowed h...
sept 7 in idea barrages
Live Inside, Laugh at the Outside, Love Air-Conditioning. Malort is Chicago’s revenge on America for not getting to live in NYC or LA. Well-played, Illinois, well-played. Quarantining Rahm ...
sept 6 in idea barrages
Has anyone ever asked Nickelodeon why they made Jimmy Neutron’s hair style look like the pinched-tip of the world’s creamiest shit? Anyone ever explain why they were going for that? Because… I ...
sept 5 in idea barrages
When you’re in your 20s, you pop and lock to impress breakdance ladies on the floor. When you’re in your 40s, your joints pop and lock of their own accord. When no one notices your social med...
sept 4 in idea barrages
Cheaply made cartoons have big DiC energy. Grey Poupon again? Dijon vu. What if Neil Young’s Heart of Gold is actually a musical treasure map to a literal heart of gold he buried somewhere ...
sept 3 in idea barrages
I apologize for being part of a society so shallowly profit-driven they convinced you to have a “skin care routine”. So they can make money, they convinced you you’re ugly if you don’t spend hu...
sept 2 in idea barrages
Why call them “factoids” when you could call them “reality bites”? A mystery about a death at bartender school called “Screaming Bloody Muddler”. A sausage so large you could knock someone ...
sept 1 in idea barrages
Refer to the game of billiards as “math balls”. See how long you can get people to buy that you legitimately think this is the name of the game. “Wanna go shoot some math balls?” you might say....
aug 31 in idea barrages
Hallucinate your past in deep isolation pods in a process we like to call “tanks for the memories”. A documentary called DAMP IF YOU DO: THE CONSPIRACY THAT KILLED MOIST-ROASTED PEANUTS. Yo...
aug 30 in idea barrages
I get that FARGO is a terse and iconic title but they really could’ve gone with A PRAIRIE HOME ACCOMPLICE. One path to the most obnoxious movie ever would be mashing-up two already obnoxious ...
first response in life stuff and misc.
On the first of these awful anniversaries, in two-thousand-two, I was driving into work, my very first job after college, training as a 911 (the emergency line not the day) operator up in Herkime...
numbered days in life stuff and misc.
Who am I to say? I saw it on the television same as anyone, same as everyone who wasn’t really there. The woman I was dating at the time had personal connections, her brother working on the Wall ...
aug 29 in idea barrages
The title “Peaky Blinders” was wasted on the British mafia show when it could’ve been the new word for nipple pasties. When young, we are each a pliable gelatin of affections suspended in a b...
