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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.
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keyword: moan, title: rote memorization in misc. flash fiction
This life is a series of lessons on the subject of letting things go. Avoid learning these lessons at your own peril because the lessons will continue to be taught, whether you want to accept the...
jan 8 in idea barrages
Craaaaaanberry bidet… the kind they prescribe if your UTI’s sore… James Cameron trying to make Avatar still a thing like a white girl on Twitter trying to make slang she heard Ru Paul say onc...
jan 7 in idea barrages
Bail reform ain’t about “criminals going free”. It’s about those accused of crimes not being punished extra for being poor. You all have some deep economic Stockholm Syndrome if you cant see th...
jan 6 in idea barrages
IKEA killed early 90s metal by using up all the umlauts. Paul Rudd ate Dick Clark’s heart and gained his power. A pastry in the form of Adam Driver called “Phyllo Ren”. Arranged marriage ...
jan 5 in idea barrages
I like to believe that King Vitaman cereal is no longer made because there was a bloody anti-royalist revolution and he was probably replaced by, oh, Comrade Crunch. When Bizarro Superman tri...
jan 4 in idea barrages
A country cover of “Hey Ya” called “Yee Haw” would be 100,000 more legitimate fusion of country and hip-hop than “Old Town Road”. “You are the walking embodiment of the avian flu virus!” she ...
consolation prize in poetry
if it’s any consolation you make ennui look good beauty isn’t everything a fact well understood but if this life is suffering there is something to be said for making it look so good
causalties of war in poetry
we managed to make the release of a new Star Wars movie into a collective cultural colonoscopy an uncomfortable begrudging obligation something nobody wants to actually do but you’re afraid ...
the way we weren't in poetry
we aspirated on our aspirations we consumed and consumed until we coughed up blood from consumption wallowed so far in the depths of fantasy the coma was inevitable we were Americans until...
jan 3 in idea barrages
We aspirated on our aspirations, we consumed until we started coughing up from consumption, wallowed so far in the depths of our dreams the coma was inevitable. We were Americans until we Ameri...
jan 2 in idea barrages
Is a gluten free girlfriend a GF GF? If you consider that mayo is half eggs, when you’re making chicken salad, the mother and child reunion is truly only an emulsion away. We’ve managed to ...
jan 1 in idea barrages
The year 20-20, you will have two critical rolls to play. Your movie about a crazy road race through zombie country will be called CANNIBAL RUN. It’s like vampires say, red sky at night, im...
dec 31 bonus barrage blow-out (360 weird ideas!) in idea barrages
Sunday night into Monday morning, we will have anything from a dusting to a foot and a half of snow, depending how desperate for clicks the given news site is. Papa John looks like a melting...
dec 30 in idea barrages
Toucan Sam converting to Gnosticism and singing “follow your gnosis, it always knows , sis”. Whenever I see the internet neologism “uWu” I imagine Ernest P. Worrell saying it. Why say “I’m...
dec 29 in idea barrages
I weirdly get the same feeling from Doug Martsch’s solo album “Now You Know” as from Izzy Straddlin’s solo album “Izzy Straddlin and the Ju-Ju Hounds”. They’re very different musically but they...
dec 28 in idea barrages
I must not nostal. Nostalgia is the mind-killer. Nostalgia is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my nostalgia. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And whe...
dec 27 in idea barrages
Maybe the aliens are just really into abnormal psychology. When you realize Fox News is just a work of kayfabe, like pro wrestling, everyone just playing a role, maybe just an exaggeration of...
dec 26 in idea barrages
You know those rigged carnival games where you’re supposed to shoot all the colour out of a star with a bee-bee gun but the only way to actually win is to blow a circle out around the circumfer...
dec 25 in idea barrages
Weekend At Bernie’s 2 is LITERALLY about the dangers of trying to have a beach body. Some day, the workstation based AIs will sass at the newer AIs with the full android bodies for being ungr...
dec 24 in idea barrages
It sounds too pat and simple to say “D&D is long form improv with math” but… D&D is long form improv with math. The theme song to a furry adaptation of Friends would involve the line ...
dec 23 in idea barrages
One generation hated the malls because they tore up the local stores. Our generation hates the superstores and Amazon for tearing up the malls. Time’s a flat circle, everything’s a cycle, I won...
dec 22 in idea barrages
Secretly, LOL never meant Laughing Out Loud. It always meant Living On-Line. I love how the little snakey dude believes he’s significant enough for anyone to even consider someone treading on...
dec 21 in idea barrages
She converted to the Norse faith late in life but converted with zeal, a real bjorn-again. Baby Yoda, do do, do not, do do, do not sung to Beck’s “pay no mind” : tonight the sector is full ...
dec 20 in idea barrages
A tender ballet about a young charismatic rock star Billy Corrigan blossoming into a weird paranoid wrestling promoter and it’s called ZWAN LAKE. I have no idea why anyone would want to see M...
keyword: ache, title: a footnote on aberrant exo-cultural development in misc. flash fiction
Consider the curious case of a planet called in its various tongues “Zemlja” “Di’qiu” or “Earth” which exo-ethnographers dubbed “Hospice Sol-Three.” It’s not rare to discover a planet whose senti...