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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 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...
may 30 in idea barrages
The detectives searched the BDSM club thoroughly, from top to bottom. Hear me out: a James Cameron bio-pic starring Michael Gross, the dad from FAMILY TIES, in the lead role. Stare into the...
may 29 in idea barrages
So many ASMR videos on YouTube seem to be about getting shyly flirted with by a lady barber or masseuse. What does this say about our collective psyche, about our culture’s weird obsession with...
may 28 in idea barrages
TEMPURA HIGHWAY, WHERE THE… FOOD’S FRIED… WHERE THE BATTER’S LIGHTER, THE TASTE IS BRIGHTER THAN… SUNSHINE… An Alanis Morissette parody about Tarantino called “Show Him Your Feet”. If some ...
may 27 in idea barrages
It is Elon Musk’s new MUSK WHEEL. It is a five-sided perfect pentagon. It just barely works at all. Tens of thousands of men in fedoras losing their shirts on Dogecoin declare “A GENIUS REINVEN...
may 26 in idea barrages
Claire Saffitz video. She is making English muffins. I start hearing the classic rock song “slow ride” as “DOUGH RISE”. This is what it is like to live in my head. Eventually, an ideologue ei...
I’ve seen The Eels, the vehicle for their front-man Mark Everett, live twice. Once in L.A. with my brother, once in Brooklyn with my then-girlfriend. At the El Rey, their opening act was a Britis...
may 25 in idea barrages
It must be difficult being an archeologist searching for an extant piece of Jesus Christ’s carpentry. The jokes about “getting a stool sample” must be endless. Nonsense is an effective weapon...
may 24 in idea barrages
The Flying Nun’s similarly gifted cousin, The Air Friar. The ATF is coming for you if your smokeless tobacco isn’t up to snuff. There are no accidents or isolated incidents but there sure a...
may 23 in idea barrages
Cloudy omen, scrawled into the street, cloudy omen, what fate will we meet, cloudy omen… I can’t foresee it, will you come true, just what exactly should we do… mercy… At a certain point of a...
prompt: thirst, title: finer than fine in misc. flash fiction
“Hope is the thing with feathers,” she opined, without attribution to Dickinson, as this customer wouldn’t know who Emily Dickinson was. “Hold your hope close to you,” she continued in stark devi...
may 22 in idea barrages
A movie about Lot and Lot’s wife’s love-life called PILLAR TALK. Names that can be sung to the beat of “Elanor Rigby” : Jessica Simpson. In Soviet Russia, thirty-day trial offers YOU. Whe...
may 21 in idea barrages
Is a bong-water enema a high colonic? Jordan Peterson’s gonna make a kids show called “Yo Goebbels Goebbels”. The song kept asking “Who got the Hooch?” but we all knew the answer. It was Tu...
may 20 in idea barrages
The Tachyon. It’s just a matter of time. Crack yourself open an MRE… a meme ready to enjoy. The demarcation between the North and the South is the “Boutta-Fixin Line”. An aged vigilante w...
may 19 in idea barrages
A SUPER hot avocado dip called UNHOLY GUACAMOLE. LESS YOGA PANTS, MORE TOGA PANTS Glider-Man, Glider-Man, friendly neighborhood Glider-Man, slowly falls through the sky, wishes he could rea...
may 18 in idea barrages
Why be “Rasputin” when you could be “FELONIOUS MONK”? A parody of “Shipoopi” from THE MUSIC MAN about ninja video games “Shinobi”. Garfield + Arbuckle = Garfunkle. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. ...
