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Claustrophobia

Posted: May 1, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Political, Puns

A very crowded elevator with everyone cringing in fear at the man jammed in their midst, Klaus Schwab.

On being confined with Klaus Schwab

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Love a Fool = FOLLY-AMORY

Posted: April 1, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Puns, Relationships

Naturally, this is a play on the concept of “polyamory.”

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Lesser Evil Voting

Posted: March 5, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Political, Puns

Voting for the lesser evil still gets you evil.

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Valentine’s Day Postcard

Posted: February 14, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards, Visual Imagery Tags: MemeMyself, Personal, Relationships

Valentine's Day postcard showing Ned's radiant visage surrounded by a garden flowering with hearts under a watercolor tie-dyed sky.

AI imagery merged with personalized messaging

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The Noose Poem

Posted: February 10, 2024 Categories: Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Business, Motivational, Political, Relationships

A black rope noose hangs from the top of the frame. Underneath the noose is the text of the poem, The Noose.

A political precautionary tale/poem using a noose as a metaphor

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For-Profit Healthcare Makes Ill-Gotten Gains

Posted: January 26, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Business, Political, Puns

A golden caduceus with a gold coin atop the wings and snakes around the staff in the shape of dollar signs stands out against a darkened background of hundreds of colorful pill capsules

A golden caduceus with snake-headed dollar signs winding around the staff

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LESS OXYCONTIN, MORE OXYTOCIN

Posted: January 23, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Memes, Motivational, Political, Relationships

A black-background postcard with words (in small text size) "A WORLD OF HURT NEEEDS" then the word (in huge text size) "LESS" then the word (in medium text size) "OXYCONTIN" then the word (in huge text size) "MORE" then the word (in medium text size) "OXYTOCIN" The phrase and each word are on their own lines with text sized to make all five lines equal width.

“Less Drugs, More Hugs” rephrased in a more cerebral way

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BETRAYED by those we were taught to TRUST

Posted: January 19, 2024 Categories: Articles, Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Personal, Political

The realization is heart breaking.

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Think Outside The Bucks

Posted: January 9, 2024 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Business, Motivational, Political, Puns

Money is not the only solution, nor constraint.

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Dance is Romance between Space and Time

Posted: December 12, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards, Visual Imagery Tags: Expository, Metaphysical, Relationships

Imagine a circle: at eleven o'clock the phrase, "Dance is Romance," arcs across the top. At eight o'clock and two o'clock are two silhouettes. At eight o'clock stands a long-haired woman in a wide-stance back bend, arms extended gracefully above and behind. From the two o'clock position leaps a lithe male dancer, airborne in a bent-leg ballet jete, arms also extended, in front and behind . Between the two silhouettes stretches the word, ~ between ~. The words, "Space and Time," bend beneath like a chair-rocker at five of the clock to complete the circuit.

Evocative imagery paired with expository prose:

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GRATITUDE vs GRUDGITUDE

Posted: November 23, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Metaphysical, Motivational

Word GRATITUDE painted on a door

Choose Wisely

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Yin-Yang Binge/Purge Sequence

Posted: October 30, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards, Visual Imagery Tags: Abstract, Metaphysical

Encircled by a grayscale pin-wheel swirl, a black and white yin-yang symbol whose contrasting-color circles circumscribe the five text characters, spelling BINGE and PURGE respectively.

Each phase seeding the subsequent cycle

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“WOKENESS” Got Co-Opted by the “SNEWS” Button

Posted: October 24, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Memes, Political, Puns

“Woke” used to be woke, but now it’s broke.

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Your Beliefs + Mainstream Media = INVISALIGN

Posted: October 19, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Political, Puns

Just as your teeth are,
over time,
molded into line
with constant pressure
by an invisible apparatus,
so are your beliefs.

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Mind Over Matter

Posted: October 7, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Metaphysical, Puns

is how matter is undermined

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Threads of Truth, Pulled Skillfully…

Posted: September 11, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Political, Relationships

unravel a tapestry of lies

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Fifty Grades of Pay

Posted: September 4, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Business, Political

Book cover (mimicking the "Fifty Shades of Grey" cover) with a green necktie and a pattern of tiny dollar signs. In large text, the title "Fifty Grades of Pay," in smaller text, the subtitle "The true obscenity of women subjugated by income inequity"

The TRUE obscenity of women subjugated by income inequity.

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You Just Need to Focus

Posted: August 16, 2023 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Memes, Motivational, Puns

or maybe get some glasses,
or maybe my name really is BLURRY

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