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"...it’s clear that the key to his appeal [Trump] is not his policy positions, which are all over the map. No, it’s all about his personality, and the paradox is that the more unpleasant his personality is revealed to be, the greater his appeal to his core group of supporters."

Robert Tracinski

"I've done a lot of things I ain't proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting."

Mo Sizlak.

I've just finished writing my play at that sprung to mind.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

I've never seriously worked on a play.

I needed to do something different after my second novel. Those were both written in 1st person with a psychotic protagonist.

This is a parody of a pantomime, one filthy joke after another. There are some who would find it disgusting, but hopefully a lot more will find it funny.

What have you got planned for wrimo?

Plays are a lot shorter than novels. My play is about 20K words long, my last novel 200K.

Doesn't make it easier though, a lot of time is spent coming up with gags, and some days are easier than others.

I am already at work on a western novel. It needs lots more words, so I will use it. I need to get it out of my hair so that I can get back to polishing a science fantasy for young adults.

My two novels have the same protagonist, I think urban gothic is the genre, but they have elements of horror and Raymond Chandler with lots of black comedy.

I like mixed genres in some of the books I've read.

Unfortunately publishers aren't too keen.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
― Ronald Wright

Borrow money from pessimists-they don’t expect it back.
Steven Wright

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence

“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.
The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict’s special need. You don’t decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you’re an addict. (Junky, Prologue, p. xxxviii)”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
Steven Wright

That's essentially the reason I never cared for the Army, and instead, enlisted into the US Air Force. We didn't do the direct killing, and not one of the nukes I loaded onto aircraft was ever used. We wondered, because we did have "red alerts" quite often. We had to be ready 24/7.

I served in the Navy because I didn't want to dig holes and sleep in them.

Another good reason I enlisted into the Air Force. When I first enlisted, we shared a huge barracks with 50 beds (guess) in them. By the time I was ready to be discharged, we had private rooms with no more than four beds. There's been huge improvements since my enlistment. The Air Force was the first service to get started on the program and are arguably ahead of the other services. All airmen, outside of basic training and technical school are now entitled to a private room. The Air Force started with remodeling barracks into a concept called one-plus-one, which provided a private room, a small kitchen, and a bathroom and shower shared with one other person. I'm really impressed.

I didn't have it that good, but I can't complain.

The enlisted Air Force quarters now sounds like officer's quarters during my time in the military. Can't complain, though, because in the Air Force, we didn't have the problems with rank. We socialized with officers as well as noncoms; that's what I loved about the Air Force. Before my discharge, my commander asked to see me, and he said he'd give me another stripe if I re-upped, but I said, no thank you. The funny thing is, if he had given me another stripe before my discharge, I may have very well stayed in the Air Force. He even wrote to me after my discharge, and that his offer was still good. I loved the freedom of civilian life too much. I still remember how happy I was when I drove out of the front gates of Walker AFB for the very last time. It's funny how your life will turn out without knowing how it will become until you live it. I still believe luck has much to do with it.

When I left my ship, I intended to reup as a soldier and fight in Vietnam. They were just sending volunteers at the time. First I wanted a couple of months' freedom before signing the papers. Funny how that little separation is all it takes to change one's life. I learned enough about the war to turn against it and I marched in protest against it instead of joing up again.