Creative Endeavors

Sarchasm: “The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.”

You know it just occurred to me, when Bush heads out, does the “Happy Trails to you, until we meet again!  Happy Trails to you, I HOPE you never win again thing.” When he leaves, that will be the end of “Bushisms.”  Unless his lil brother in Florida, Jebidiah happens to run.  We will be out of Bushisms for a long time.

Man, that is a scary thought, no Bushisms and Jay Leno leaving NBC all at the same time.  Talk about humor withdrawl, we are going to be in line for some serious boredom nationwide.  Kind of like the 8,000 sq mile dead-zone they just discovered in the Gulf Of Mexico recently.

Which actually did not come as all that big of a surprise to me at all.  I have been living in a house with a dead-zone for over thirty years now … It is my bedroom!  Yes it is true, boys & girls, no humor in America.  And you found it here … First.  Where is Andy Dick when you really need him?

Sorry, I digress.

I have over the years found Bushisms to be quite amusing at times and they also help me to ignore this ugly rash in my right arm pit that has been giving me problems lately.  Now I suppose we are in for a round of “Barackisms.”

Slate the Online magazine of which I am a big fan, have compiled a political primer just in time for the election season.  Obamamania the English language Barackafied paperback will help voters keep themselves “Barackupied.”  They are starting to put them up almost daily now.

Some examples:

• Obombies.  Supporters who, through expressing unwavering support for Obama, are unable to name a single one of his policies.
• Ob-la-di, O-ba-ma, life goes on.  The opinion that all is not lost if Obama fails to win the election.
• Barackstar.  A favorite nickname that thousands of Obama supporters believe they came up with themselves.
• Barackberry.  A means of staying in constant contact with all Barack Obama-related news.

Soon to be followed by “Things Younger Than John McClain” which should be out in August which will take a long hard look at things that are younger than McClain.  To name a few:  Alaska, area codes, McDonald’s, Bugs Bunny, and chocolate chip cookies.  Who knew?

(And you guys thought all I did was sit around all day long … This takes research people!  Research.)

As I am always in total bewilderment about the popularity of blogs in America, how things just suddenly spring up and take off, I will tell you about one of the latest.  The blog (not the book) thingsyoungerthanmccain.com, generated more than 250,000 hits within the first week it was created, and even McCain told Glamour magazine he found it hilarious.

Meanwhile back in the heartland of America, here I sit writing articles on how a smoke detector is not an oven timer and my wife’s cooking and no one shows up to read it.

Perhaps all of you that do stop by today to read my particular brand of insanity could just tell “three more people” about it, and then they would tell “three more people about it” and the first thing you know?

Well you know …. dont’cha?

I could write an article on “How I Was Arrested for Birthing a Ponzi scheme.”

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Related:

• 72 things younger than John McCain by Joe Quint, Fireside, $9.95 paperback
• Obamamania The English Language Barackafied, Fireside, $9.95 paperback original.