1016 in idea barrages

1.) One thing that carries over from my (ancient, now) formal training in screenplay into poetry is conflating multiple real events into one narrative or image for maximum effect. It’s not something you’re supposed to do in journalism or non-fiction but in a poem or a movie, you’re almost expected to do it for brevity’s sake. As long as your form assumes you’re shaping your experience, it’s a helluva useful thing. It’s not lying, it’s honing the blade of meaning, it’s rad.

2.) Another one of my recurring dreams is about walking into my last semester of high school with a schedule of all the wrong classes and way too many and fighting the bureaucracy to get it fixed.

3.) Peter Pan wouldn’t have so much trouble if they hadn’t defunded the shadow government.

4.) You know how some people wear shirts with just the name of a cool city on ‘em? Let’s all just get shirts that say “SUBURBS”.

5.) “whacha gonna do with all that cat all that cat on that mat i’m gonna make him fat fat fat i’ll do that for that cat,” I sing to Felix, because I am completely crazy probably.

6.) Emphasis is so important on the internet yet also lacking. “Go Fund Yourself!” versus “Go FUND Yourself!” for example.

7.) If you’ve only seen pictures of me I swear to God I don’t ALWAYS look like someone poured a bucket of hair on John Belushi’s corpse.

8.) If only I had a back-up band, I’d go to comic-cons totally DTF… down to filk.

9.) Garfield cartoons voiced in terrible Lorenzo Music impression make me disproportionately sad.

10.) When you get smiled by a bunch of Ghostbusters ghosts at once, that’s called bookake.