Heh I found this picture on the web. I asked my boss to put it over the threshhold into my office. Thought I would share.

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Another day...woo hoo...I'm not looking forward to Thanksgiving. This weekend is going to be long. I can already sense it.

I found a strange website today. It urges people to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I don't think I'll be able to put toegther an original piece in four days. The concept is to allow a person to stop thinking so much and write. It also amazes me how many people want to be writers. It makes me feel like I will have to climb over many people to get published. I should think of this like a sport? I doubt it, but it puts in perspective two things. One how many people tinker with the idea. And two, how much harder I should have to persevere!

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I added a weatherpixie to my website. I must admit that I was unoriginal about this since I saw it on another blog. I'm supposed to be working today, but I'm out cruzing for chicks...er websites! I'm thinking of putting a second one up of Orlando or someplace down in Florida where I wish to move to...SOON! I'm so fricken tired of the cold. Of course this all has to do with writing...:P

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What a bummer of a time this weekend for my writing. I didn't get much done over the past three days. Can I use the I'm too busy excuse? Well I could, but where would it get me? And if it got me, how would it get me? Remember when you were a child and your dad or mom was going to 'get you'? But in this case I'm not using the 'get me' phrase in this fashion. And for most people who know me, I don't have a great fashion sense. I believe this is the early stages of feeble-mindedness.

I do have a project to write, but the motivation (excitement) hasn't kicked in yet. Which in my little wonderful world is another term for procrastination and lucky for me doesn't involve the use of a proctologist! But I do know I have my head squeezed up the orafice he or she would examine. If by chance you were unlucky enough to have to visit a proctologist, would you rather see a man or a woman for your condition? I suspect getting ones head removed from their ass would require the tact and skill of a psychologist. Maybe this is why I believe I'm a prime candidate for stupidity. Not the kind of stupidity where I can't add two and two together, but the rare form of the disease that allows me to continue to live in an unfulfilled life where the only thing I have contributed to the world is my ability to procreate. Now that sure is one legacy no one else has ever achieved!

Of course I could be wrong about it all...
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"You can't beat that with a stick." I'm not sure where this saying came from and a google [internet search] provided no answers to the origins of this either. I'm stuck with the ability to eradicate the image of people beating on things with a stick. Some things can't be beaten with a stick. For example on my way to the bathroom, a customer sighed and an employee remarked that it sure was nice to be Friday. In reponse, the customer added, "Payday as well." "You can't beat that." I added the, "with a stick" in my own little thoughts as I walked on by. You can't beat a Friday with a stick, but there are other things you can beat. Which brings me to the old cliche of, "Beating a dead horse." A goggle on these words returns the many usages of this saying including a few jokes.

Now I've beaten a horse to death many times in my life. I remember playing Rolemaster [a roleplaying game superior to AD&D] in my youth and having many discussions to the point where we made jokes about the horse we've beaten to death, buried and rose from the dead so we could continue to strike it with our proverbal whips until we were mentally exhausted. Our usual topic was about a young gentleman who my Gamemaster (GM) had issues (pronounced ith-ues) with. The horse had more lives than a cat and our gaming sessions became more of a bitching contest. It worsened after the young man left the group, because the stench of the horse never disappaited and yet during the night we would find some reason to raise the spirit of the dead horse to beat on it. With a stick of course.

Funny how things slap you in the face like a large hispanic woman who thought you said whores instead of horse, but cliches have been my bugaboo (peek a boo bugs?) since that horrid review of my poem. When the TV has been on and I catch a glimpse of a show I've many cliches used in dialog. Why do TV writers do it? To dumb down the TV so all the morons who watch it can get it? I know it goes on in movies and books as well.

The problem with many phrases I hear is that I have little word play games that fire off in my head. In many cases the humor escapes the casual fan (heh like I have fans), but I chew on the flavor of the giggle I created for my own self-amusement. At least I keep myself happy.

Oh well enough bantering today...

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Can you believe it is already Nov 21? I think I'm going to wake up dead one morning (a paradox within itself..waking up dead) and wonder where all the time went. That simple thought keep me motivated to write even though I haven't produced much over the last few years. The fear of sitting on the porch, in my rocker screaming at all the youngin's to stay off my grass and wonder what happened to my life! What did I do? Sit around watching TV and playing video games? Hrm that is a good feeling now isn't it?

I really don't watch much TV. The writing is bland and talk about the use of cliches! Half the jokes are based on cliches let alone the cliched format of the sit-com/doctor/law and order format. At least some of these shows have realized to make the shows the same name with different actors. Now I won't say I never watch TV, because there are a few I do watch. Hidden hills on NBC after Frazier is good, always has some interesting topics to speak about, but even then it is cast in the same die as the other family sit-coms.

Movies aren't much better. We went and saw the new Steven Segal movie and I was unimpressed with it. Now LOTR 2 is coming and as I've said before I'm drooling for that one. Not sure about the Star Trek movie, I think they have done all they can with that series, before during and after the original time line. And I'll see 007 if nothing else to gawk at Hallie Berry in a swimming suit. Woo Hoo I'm such a guy!

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Right now I'm pushing the rock up the hill. I want to write, but I'm waiting for my subconscious to catch up with my urgency and tell my conscious mind where to continue on with the story I already have. Meanwhile I have been to some great websites as I prime my mind. Orson Scott Card has a great site with a lot of columns that are quite interesting to read ( a blog without the fancy name!). You know who Mr Card is don't you? He wrote Enders game a while back that blew my mind. While reading this site he linked me to another site which is funnier, but I haven't had the time to really read. Eric Snider is a humor columnist of a Utah newspaper and it is amazing that Utah isn't a country of its own. Between the two of these guys you really get a perspective of how different the cultures are in the US.

These last two entries should be one post, but I had problems posting and publishing it this morning.

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