The Joys of New Homeownership (A Poem)

by niceguyted on October 20, 2012 · 1 comment

Hardly any sleep last night,
Put on the same filthy clothes I wore yesterday,
(No shower),
Breakfast on coffee, a cigarette and Vitamin I
And head out the door.
Back to work
On the new house.

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Just Dreamt

by niceguyted on April 12, 2012 · 0 comments

I just dreamt that Brad Pitt and I were chasing each other with ceramic military knives around a small town on a bay. I had killed AJ and he killed several of the ‘innocents’. I didn’t want to kill him, but I had to try. He was insane and I was evolving there too and not enjoying it. Even though I convinced the sand worm from Beetlejuice to attack him from beneath the bay, it didn’t work. We had run out of other weapons and were down to these two knives, which we kept throwing at each other. There were flashbacks to restaurants and tents in there too. Lots of jumping from the same windows over and over again. Acid-burnt bodies, cannibalism, creepy bathroom/kitchens, intrigue, sexual perversion of a PG-13 nature and lots of famous actors who are only famous in my mind – in short, probably the best chance of topping The Expendables. And I can’t remember what we were fighting about.

It’s 3:31AM and I’m going back to bed, knowing that tomorrow will not be as cool as the dream I just had.

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Windows to the Soul

October 27, 2011

Here’s submission #3 for #nycmidnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2011.  Prompts were open (genre), a physical rehabilitation center (place) and a poisonous [sic: venomous] snake (object).  I kind of shit the bed on this one, I think.  Not too worried about it, though.  I was pretty happy that I made the cut to get to the second [...]

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Thinning Out

September 27, 2011

Here’s submission #2 for #nycmidnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2011.  Prompts were ghost story (genre), steakhouse (place) and a taser gun (object).  I’m kind of ok with how it turned out, though I put it together in about an hour (just before the deadline, as usual), so there are a few places where a word or [...]

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Fricked

August 22, 2011

Ok, here’s my submission for the #nycmidnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2011. 1,000 word maximum (I’m at 999); the prompts were sci-fi (genre), a wig (object), a drug rehab (place).  Not the best piece I’ve ever written, but whatever:  it’s been a long time since I wrote anything, fiction or otherwise. BRIEF SYNOPSIS:  In the real [...]

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$8 Blowjobs on 14th Street

June 23, 2011

‘Tis a sad day indeed, dear reader, when I’m scraping one of Josh Allen’s websites for blog fodder.  Wait . . . no; not really:  would that I could pull it together enough (maybe read something about internet copyright law and whatnot) to set up a separate Josh Allen tribute site, but I’m not exactly [...]

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Sans Motivation

June 20, 2011

Hoo boy.  It’s been 84 days since my last post.  That’s exactly 12 weeks.  Whoops.  Sorry ’bout that, dear reader. Ok, you’re over it. Quixotic Jedi mind trick. Seriously. I’m at work right now and relatively bored.  Well, not bored exactly, just kind of doing that same old deer-in-the-headlights thing with the stuff I need [...]

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Another Bullshit Update

March 28, 2011

Where the frig did the winter go?  I spent a good portion of the last 3-season pining for the time when I could break my snowshoes back out, and that time’s nearly over.  Not that I can complain:  I probably snowshoed close to 200 miles this winter and bagged about 40 peaks along the way. [...]

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EWR to TPE via NRT 3/1-2/2011

March 2, 2011

Ok, so here I am on a plane again, bound for Taiwan.  It’s 5:30PM ET; the plane left at 11:10AM – we’re just about halfway to Tokyo Narita.  I should probably be (or have been) studying up on my presentation materials, but instead I’ve been watching movies.  The time has passed relatively quickly.  So far, [...]

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Stress: Dismissed

February 16, 2011

So here’s what I’ve been thinking, dear reader: All I really have to do is the best I can.  That’s it.  I don’t have to get everything done:  I just need to do what I can.  I don’t have to do everything perfectly:  I just need to do do as best I can.  None of [...]

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