Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are It,

Little jerkie patriot loved that rascal Tough,

And brought him lies and secrets and other fancy stuff, oh

 

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are IT

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are IT 

 

Together they would travel in a boast with billowed sail

Jerkie kept a lookout perched on Tough's gigantic tale

Noble kings and princes would bow wheneer they came,

Pirate ships would lower their flag when Tough roared out his name, oh

 

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are IT

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are IT

 

A moron lives forever but not so little boys

M-16s and killer things make way for other toys

One grey night it happened, Jerkie's loyalty came no more

And Tough the mighty moron, he ceased his fearless roar

 

His head was bent in sorrow, stupid sayings fell like rain

Tough no longer went to play along the bullshit lane

Without this life-long friend, Tough could not be brave

So Tough that mighty moron sadly slipped into his cave, oh

 

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in land called We are IT

Tough, the tragic moron lived by the shit

And frolicked in the frothy piss in a land called We are IT

Just a little fun. Comments? Wanna try your hand?

Nobody has to be Shakespeare to write a haiku. The rules are simple. A haiku (says Wikipedia) should have three lines: one with five syllables, followed by one with seven syllables, then another with five. A classic haiku should make some reference to kigo, meaning the weather, but often stretched to all things natural, mountains, a river, trees, clouds or whatever. People quarrel over the exact form, but those are the basics for those of us who want to have fun but don't speak Japanese

 

November. Sunrise.

The geese fly north. Hungry V

So grand. North?  I blink.

So give it a shot. Lets have some.

 

Nobody has to be Shakespeare to write a haiku. The rules are simple. A haiku (says Wikipedia) should have three lines: one with five syllables, followed by one with seven syllables, then another with five. A classic haiku should make some reference to kigo, meaning the weather, but often stretched to anything natural, mountains, a river, trees, clouds or whatever. People quarrel over the exact form, but those are the basics for those of us who want to have fun but don't speak Japanese

 

November. Sunrise.

The geese fly north. Hungry V

So grand. North?  I blink.

So give it a shot. Lets have some.

 

I’ve written more than two dozen thrillers and detective novels, some have gotten all kinds of hot damn reviews, others possibly weren’t as good. But never mind. One of the most important things to remember in writing fiction is the show-tell rule. Don’t tell the reader that a character is funny, intelligent, a dim-bulb, or angry. Have the character do things that are funny, smart, stupid, or pissed-off. Barack Obama doesn’t say, “I am even-tempered, classy, elegant, thoughtful, intelligent, considerate and et cetera.” He does things that are even-tempered, elegant, thoughtful, intelligent, and considerate. He keeps his mouth shut and lets us judge him by what he does.

 

John McCain’s problem is he tells us repeatedly that he’s a maverick, or that he puts his country ahead of himself, or that he’s honorable. Then he repeats the same old Repuke party-line crappola and cultural war nonsense. A movie director on Huffpost has written a little script saying essentially the same thing. Instead of announcing that he was going to Washington to save the country from financial disaster et cetera, he should have just gone there. Let the media figure it out. In other words he is constantly “telling” us. He should “show” us.  By telling us what he was going to do, he made himself out to be a narcissistic show-boater and set himself up for failure.

 

Dumb. One again, the rule is show, don’t tell.

Has anybody out there noticed McShame's bizarre blinking. When he's making a speech or answering a question on the tube his eyes go into a rapid fire blink mode. When he made his famous speech with the lime green back ground, he always got that sick, face smile and went blink-blink-blink before said, "That's not change you can believe in."

 I find myself watching his loopy blinking instead of whatever it is he's trying to say, which ordinarily isn't much, true. I Googled "rapid blinking" and found there are a number of explanations for a rapid blink rate, pressure being among them. This is apparently a personal tic that he can't control.

 I say a simple, cheap tactic--likely reprehensible--would be to use the web to call attention to this blinking so that people will be watching his bizarre blinking for the next couple of months rather than listening to whatever deceptive nonsense that he's spouting.