Ah, the morning shower person. Watch, as he crawls out of bed dragging the duvet with him. Soon he will find his way out of the bed sheets and emerge bipedal. It's fascinating.
Category: humor
Against Club Matte | a polemic
So apparently, once, a German party-goer with a complex chemical reaction unfolding in his stomach, gave up all hope of reestablishing contact with the world outside his cranium, and went fuck it, let's bend this bender to its bendiest: here's the glass of water Hans has been using as an ashtray, I'm gonna pour a … Continue reading Against Club Matte | a polemic
The Guilt Seller Pleads Innocent | excerpt from a deposition
--BEGIN TRANSCRIPT-- DEFENDANT: I swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. PROSECUTOR: Mr. REDACTED, can you talk a bit about your past business ventures? DEFENDANT: Um, let's see. We tried a company that you pay to change the arrangement of someone’s furniture as a birthday surprise. We tried an … Continue reading The Guilt Seller Pleads Innocent | excerpt from a deposition
they don’t party for the end of the world like they used to | a tragedy
Location: Anywhere that isn't lava Time: who are we kidding Join us as we give our weary species one last hurrah just in time to watch the fireworks that will engulf us in blazing perfection! Paint your body and face in skeleton patterns using the volcanic soot that you're breathing anyway and lock hands with … Continue reading they don’t party for the end of the world like they used to | a tragedy
What Is Love | an answer?
What is love, baby don't hurt me, and so on and so forth. Haddaway played it twice that evening. The entire set was four songs. I had been taken there by my GF, who had been taken there by her friend, who had been taken there by his friend, who drives the Metro and looks … Continue reading What Is Love | an answer?
Against Turning Into Your Parents | a note
Don't forget to hang up the phone after the call is finished. Don't forget to speak into the phone after the other person has picked up. Don't talk to a third person while you're on the phone. Don't attempt to figure out Skype or other forms of Internet telephony. Don't whispershout when there's company. Don't … Continue reading Against Turning Into Your Parents | a note
FINAL BOSS | a video-game prose poem
< *~ * him at 23. observe.↓* ~ * > Old armor creaks as Boy touches knee on ground. Tower looms in the distant night. Showtime. "COME ON, BOY. COME SAVE PRINCESS." They go to her with peacock glaives; they go to her with dragon horses. Younger, faster, more vicious. What's this old knight to … Continue reading FINAL BOSS | a video-game prose poem
the friends we keep | a Grand Guignol
I think about the friends I've stuck with over the years and come up with certain commonalities: They're all weirdos They all enjoy holding opinions The opinions don't have to make sense They have all survived the Coronaphage Home is the place where you can argue freely and also the place where there is ample … Continue reading the friends we keep | a Grand Guignol
REPOST: Odysseus Butthurt
This humor piece was originally published on the excellent Vanity Projection, in late 2018, just as I went back to writing. VP is sadly defunct, so I’m reproducing the piece here, even though almost two years later I’m not entirely happy with its opening, or its butthurt. Nevertheless, even though I’m not opposed to linking people … Continue reading REPOST: Odysseus Butthurt
REPOST: Living Wall of Cray-Cray
Another essay I put on Medium back in '18. Worldbuilding gone awry; or, when the world is building the author: Not that your crazy wall would look like this. But then there’s maintenance. So you collaged clippings, notes, and printouts and used pins and color-coded threads to fully materialize your mind map. Everything is stuck on with … Continue reading REPOST: Living Wall of Cray-Cray