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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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“How about this title,” she turned to her wife with a pause so pregnant doctors would induce a labor were it not just a metaphor, “Pastrami Ennui.” Her professor wife looked up from her pile of b...
mar29 in idea barrages
1.) Following youtube way too much, it’s funny how “having a baby” is becoming part of a scripted progression to being a “lifestyle youtuber”. You run out of food to cook or challenges to accept ...
mar28 in idea barrages
1.) When writing fiction based on real people places or events, the key is to try and stick to the real, unless something made-up would be more emotionally true, then go with that. Like how Roger...
mar27 in idea barrages
1.) Does the worm in a tequila bottle violate Lenten Friday laws? 2.) The more fictional the story, the more you can actually talk about the raw feelings of your life, without feeling like a melo...
mar26 in idea barrages
1.) This NCAA tournament needs to be sponsored by Tums because it is chalky as hell. 2.) I wouldn’t wish my nightmares on the worst person in the world, even when I’m in a mood when I think I’m t...
mar25 in idea barrages
1.) Raisins are just grapes that gave up on trying to be delicious. 2.) Go to a bar in a nice suit and a gimp mask. Order a martini and when someone finally talks to you, introduce yourself as “B...
“You’re a miracle, you’re… impossible,” the scientist yelled, but not as a compliment or even a statement of fact, it was an accusation, “I’m only normal. Christ, I’m far less than normal.” I ask...
mar24 in idea barrages
1.) Making gravy from scratch brings up fond memories. 2.) Your album of death-metal covers of R.E.M. songs will be called “Problematic For The People”. 3.) You don’t want to make the cool kids ...
mar23 in idea barrages
1.) Walk around with an exaggerated limp and if anyone asks say that you took a shell in the Storage Wars. 2.) Sometimes, I will come up with a weird pun in my dream, type it into dream social me...
balance beams in poetry
balance is what’s required to walk that multifold luminous with one foot in each side of some goddamned false dichotomy without falling to either side or beginning to imagine that that imagi...
mar22 in idea barrages
1.) The e-mail from Google telling us to save anything on Google-Plus because it’s shutting down adorably presumes that anyone used Google-Plus for any reason other than claiming an account in ca...
mar21 in idea barrages
1.) How many journalists are waiting for a big yogurt heist so they can run with the headline “Cultural Appropriation”? 2.) We are moving toward the singularity where so many have declared for th...
mar20 in idea barrages
1.) You can’t know a culture from what it creates to last, that will only tell you the lies it told itself about itself. What that culture creates to be disposed of, that will tell you its tale i...
mar19 in idea barrages
1.) The water on the ground isn’t frozen, the water in my blood should be just fine too, no jacket required. 2.) SHE HAD A RASPBERRY BIDET, THE KIND THAT YOU GET IN A FANCY HOTEL 3.) What does ...
mar18 in idea barrages
1.) The difference between the ability to fund-raise & the ability to generate actual general-election votes is a reality a whole lotta of people don’t wanna admit to right now. The middle cl...
these medaling kids in poetry
you’re either a steel-drivin’ man or you’re driven to steal baby, this is America, baby that’s how they tell us to feel so either get left a mansion or go push the wheel inheritance is theft ...
mar17 in idea barrages
1.) People who think we can reverse global warming by talking nice about the planet are proponents of the flatter-Earth theory. 2.) Whenever Syracuse is good at basketball or football again, have...
Los Angeles has its ghosts, like anywhere, and like anywhere else, most sightings have practical explanation. Ninety-nine-point-nine-nine-nine percent of all hauntings are hoax or heating duct, d...
mar16 in idea barrages
1.) We took the clock down as it finally died and the stain it left behind looked like the Starbucks mermaid. Not like Jesus or even like Elvis, even the mystic auguries are just corporate logos ...
temperance and distance in poetry
everyone looks like someone else in the place where you’re from at least on distant shores everyone’s a stranger from the start that’s where I went to change the world anywhere ...
the heisenberg blues in poetry
Your relationship with yourself is as fraught as a subatomic particle. You can never know at the same time both where you are and how fast you’re going. By trying to observe yourself too clos...
mar15 in idea barrages
1.) You will name your band “Malcolm Jamal Warrior”. 2.) They never clarified exactly what they meant by Denver The Last Dinosaur being a friend “and a whole lot more” from in this one mistake, I...
mar14 in idea barrages
1.) In hell, Richard Nixon has been forced to be damnation’s car mechanic just so that Satan can force him to ask for tools with the phrase “Socket. To me.” 2.) I’m open to the idea I’ve been den...
mar13 in idea barrages
1.) One of the hardest things to admit is that some do their best work with limiters on, not off. Sometimes being confined by rules & regs focuses you while wild riffing lets you be an incons...
mar12 in idea barrages
1.) Maximizing short-term profit without regard to your community is unpatriotic. 2.) Pierce Brosnan should’ve played Paul in DUNE at some point because his first name is literally a killing word...
