Rhyme Slinger Gifts

"Or we could go to the exhibition chronicling in depth, the development of the hip hop scene..."

"I didn't finish the proof but I did write this poem about my struggle."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'Let's start out with cliches and pithy slogans - and work our way up to wisdom ...OK?'

"Off my back and out of the sack. Let's unpack and have a snack!"

'She barely made it out of the atmosphere... next!'

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

The Corner Of Ogden And Nash: Candy is Daddy/Liquor is Quicker

"It all happened so fast. 'Notable Book of the Year' to the remainder shelves to HERE in just six months!"

"When Ed suggested 5 potato, 6 potato, 7 potato more, I suggested a vasectomy."

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

'Sorry I'm late - I was stacked up at the airport.'

Meet the author

"I've read all your books and seen all your plays, and I wear your 'Gimme' cap."

The novel was printed and in the stores ... any minute now, the world would beat down his door.

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Whatever!

Freedom

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

'After three years of writer's block, I began writing about writer's block.'

'The first thing we will do is select a block captain.'

"Love the tie, Chad—that is so pimp!"

Pianist-boxer

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

I'm a little disappointed -- I always thought the ultimate secret to the universe would rhyme.

Poetry Reading. Physics Lecture. Which'll it be -- rhyme or reason?

'This little piggy went to the doctor's office and went 'ouch, ouch, ouch' all the way home. I just made that up.'

So you've lost your journalism job. Yep and my freelance contracts. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Free distribution of information is driving publishers out of business. I can't compete against thousands of free blogs. Twenty years I spent learning to be a professional journalist and I'm a dinosaur. What'd you say? I was reading Gawker. Shoot me.

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

Vote Grinkley! Now you see him, now you don't.

Skywriter's Block

"We're still pretty far apart. I'm looking for a six-figure advance and they're refusing to read the manuscript."

'Ed' 'Op-ed'

'This week's column is going to be about Writer's Block, and it's...'