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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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june 20 in idea barrages
No, Jimmy Fallon, you do not have a great show lined up for us tonight. You have, at best, a Jimmy Fallon show lined up for us tonight and, God help us, you may not even clear that astonishingl...
june 19 in idea barrages
That little stone dude in the garden is your best friend. He is your gnomeslice. Did they call 2 Fast 2 Furious’ gag-reel 2 Flubs 2 Funniest? Why call the borders of a puzzle “edge parts” w...
after the end in poetry
they tried to break the seals the seals were broken instead they rooted for their raptures but mostly just ended up dead they wanted kings and gods they lost a few close friends...
june 18 in idea barrages
Now that I think about it, Turbo Teen & Ranma 1/2 crossover fan fiction would be really really really really really really disturbing. SPIDGETTI-Os: WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT PASTABILI...
june 17 in idea barrages
In their second go-round, they have matured past being Bennifer. They are now a Jenjamin. To a successful author, seeing fan fiction communities de-fang their work until it is all empty power...
june 16 in idea barrages
Instant Universe! Just add Entropy! (Some disappointment required.) In a pinch, for fire-starting, pine-resin soaked fatwood can be substituted for with stoner lung. Violence begets violenc...
prompt: blend, title: station break in misc. flash fiction
The Thin Mint Blizzard isn’t “exclusively” at Dairy Queen, no matter what the ads on teevee say. Anyone can put ice cream in a blender with mint-chocolate cookies. Branding means nothing. A brand...
june 15 in idea barrages
A movie about someone who keeps losing online matches when they find out that she’s a spirit with a cellphone called GHOSTED. Sometimes I will sit back and think about how America forces immi...
june 14 in idea barrages
Vermont’s ONLY stand-up comic, Larry The Maple Guy! In discussions of new age healing, if you say “reiki” twice in a row, suddenly you’re rapping. As we are all on social media, just street...
june 13 in idea barrages
Is a Choco Taco just an ice cream hotdog? The success of ASMR videos on Youtube is an example of tickle-down economics. Elon Musk, born atop third base, lecturing us on his genius disruptiv...
june 12 in idea barrages
A surrealist theme park named Daliwood. A reality show about people lining up to marry Bezos and Gates for their money called BATTLE OF THE NET WORTH STARS. Audrey II is a perfect metaphor ...
june 11 in idea barrages
There are not enough jokes involving Jimmy Stewart’s murderous clown character in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and the idea of a Barnum and George Bailey’s Circus. If you have to tear Bill Nye ...
june 10 in idea barrages
LESS CALLING YOUR LOVER “DADDY” OR “MOMMY”, MORE CALLING YOUR LOVED “CAP’N”! Bottles and cans, containing hams, containing haaaammms, BOTTLED HAMS, two pig servings in a pack to go, BOTTLED H...
prompt: wisdom, title: definitions & digressions in misc. flash fiction
In the oeuvre of “Dungeons and Dragons”, there are six statistics you build your little imaginary dark-elf murder-hoboing Cthulhu-indentured warlock around: Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Cha...
june 9 in idea barrages
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up Head ‘em up, move ‘em on Move ‘em on, head ‘em up, ENDIVE Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in Ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in, ENDIVE As a...
june 8 in idea barrages
I have read that the civilian identity of the minor Batman villain Egghead is “Edgar Heed” which is fine, I guess, but it should’ve been Salvatore Manella and you damned well know it. A THC-i...
june 7 in idea barrages
Decades too late, I realized that “Interview With The Vampire” was rife for jokes with the punchline “Vlad Pitt”. A parody of Johnny Cash’s “Jackson” except he’s going to the most boring plac...
june 6 in idea barrages
When they say “those who fight monsters risk becoming them”, it’s true, but I think it’s misunderstood. It’s not some kind of social contagion of contact that raises your risk, it’s the fightin...
june 5 in idea barrages
A mash-up of RENT and THE ROOM, just so we can keep getting back around to the “oh hi Marc!” Any parody of the Beach Boys’ Kokomo about the Poconos would have to include heavy reference to be...
june 4 in idea barrages
When Tim Allen was imprisoned for cocaine smuggling, he was apprehended by his good twin, a bounty hunter named Jim “The Cool Man” Jailor. Ooooo lah lah! Special K cereal! Regular K isn’t goo...
prompt: weary, title: darkness nothing more in misc. flash fiction
You have to see it from my point of view, that guy was just depressed for depression’s sake. Just to wallow in it, just because being sad made him feel special and deep. Lenore had been gone for ...
june 3 in idea barrages
A “Thank You Essential Workers” sign on a strip-mall placard, covering over the sign of a store that had closed. Because that’s all those thoughts are to so many people, empty words to fill spa...
june 2 in idea barrages
Photosynthesis means that for plants, every meal is a light meal. Bob Dylan was the first mumblecore rapper. Eminem sampling Warren G to rap about Mom’s spaghetti with the hit “Ragu Late”. ...
june 1 in idea barrages
When you write out “N.Y.U.” without punctuation or capitalization, it looks like an anime-fetish sound-word-thing. “nyu nyu”. Just realized that today. Seemed worth sharing. In some ways, it’...
may 31 in idea barrages
. The real question for my generation, of course, is “Who was your ship on Nickelodeon’s Out of Control?” Mine, of course, was Davequickly as Diz was to be mine, goddamn it. A compressed misu...
