Today’s Music: Foreigner – Feels Like The First Time
Days Til Spring: 66
Another year, and new challenges from those wacky cats at Trifecta. And DJ Matticus, who reminded me of the challenge with his great response.
This week, they want 33 words to follow The first time I saw…
(Oh, and they should all be one syllable each.)
But I have 66! The same number of days til spring!
The first set is what came to mind first (since I’m a little bent).
The second set came to me because what’s a trifecta challenge if I don’t at least try to tweak the judges (since I’m probably more than a little bent)?
Vengeance is MINE!!!
The first time I saw
– from the first scream – from the time when the first shock made me wake, I knew my whole life would be in need to give a hard sharp slap back to that doc.
(and again…)
their tasks, mocks from a harsh team who hid in the depths of the ‘net, led me to spend my free time in search of them.
33 care worn words at a time.
Apologies in advance, but hey, it can’t all be Dostoyevsky.
Guapola 
So you’re a doc beater, huh? Guess that’s one way to get your bill lowered… 😉
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Ha! I hope you’ll forgive me for forgetting my audience on this one.
But to be fair, is the slapping really necessary?
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I take it you haven’t been in delivery rooms in decades. That would probably guarantee loss of a medical license nowadays. 😉
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Thanks for the ear worm. I hope you have an “interesting” day.
[Post Hot Blooded and I’ll crawl through the ether and strangle you.
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Nono, I’m saving Hot Blooded for my Dracula/Twilight/Sesame Street mashup.
It will be EPIC!!!
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…crawl through the ether or take the elevator. I can mount your head on a stake in the fountain as a warning to others who are inclined to post banal yet, unforgettable, pop guitar licks to the utter dismay of others.
Check it and see.
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I think if you do that, you will only martyr me and make my legend stronger. Truly, I will become a Jukebox Hero…
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Bah. You win this round, Dirty White Boy.
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Your revenge can wait. It doesn’t sound…Urgent.
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Hahaha! Yeah, why not hit him back. Though, I think the real desire to strike back would come after the umbilical cord gets cut, rather than the little tooshy smack…
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I had “desire” in there originally. Took 3 read-throughs to realize it was two syllables.
Do umbilical cords have nerve endings for pain?
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I don’t think they do… but, you are still cutting off their food supply… I’d be pretty pissed if that happened to me.
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Ha Ha! Nicely written, very funny.
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Thank you Sir!
Sadly, I wrote it before reading the syllable restriction.
(It was better with the longer words.)
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I wonder if the Trifecta Challenge moguls actually read the words that are penned?
Thanks for some Foreigner today.
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They usually leave a comment on each post with their initial reaction. Usually, I just try and get a laugh out of them.
Some of the entrants are really talented.
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They comment. Awesome! 🙂
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Dive in if you like.
There is plenty of room for creativity, and a wide leeway of interpretation as long as it meets the basic guidelines.
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I might do that when I get this book from November cleaned up and published. Thanks.
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We do. Thanks. We read all of the entries at least once. On some blogs, we even read all of the comments. 🙂
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LOL! You are definitely awesome. 🙂
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Better Foreigner than Journey.
That Matticus is exposing so many of us to these challenges recently. It’s like he’s a literary influence or something.
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I’ve been doing these on and off for a while. One of my favorite trifecta entries is https://guapola.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/trifecta-use-your-brains/
333 words that are probably very insightful into my strain of humor.
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You’re a lot briefer than Dostoyesvsky! But honestly, I think that’s great. I really struggled my way through those 600 pages and liked this more therefore! 🙂
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I have yet to make it through anything by Dostoyevsky.
Though I have read Nabokov’s Lolita.
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I loved that one! But you probably figured that out by now…
Did you like it?
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I think circumcision warrants the real revenge. Not speaking from experience, of course. Nice job! 🙂
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I attended a circumcision for my nephew and held him through it.
I couldn’t look.
*shudder*
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Hit that slap of a doc with clap… hmmm my monosylables led me wrong there
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Let it flow! I like it, I like it…
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That was awesome… I gotta start doing some of these… do you think I am smart enough to figure out how? Where do we go to sign up?
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oooohhhh…. I found it… so we just write stuff and then link back to them?
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On the bottom of the page is an Add your link button. Just click that and fill in the information Then it will add you to the list of other people who entered.
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I will jump in on the next one… I am doing interviews with characters from my books… even though nobody is reading it.
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I’m waiting to get the book.
Are there ebook versions available?
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Yes… well, not of the monkey book… and they are cheap… oh, wait… the second book won’t be on ebook for a while… or not at all maybe. My kid wants to see if the numbers make it worth while. But the first one is.
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I thought these were great. Dostoyevsky’s stuff is way too long, anyway. And it’s written with all these backward Rs and other nonsense letters. No, better to model yourself after Tom Clancy.
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I prefer to do most of my writing in Esparantu.
Sadly, I speak that as well as I speak English. (Not very.)
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I love the first one, Guapo! (and of course, no offense to Carrie)
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Thanks whitelady! I’m just worried that Carrie will give me a taste of my own (wait for it…) medicine.
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Well done…both of them!
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If only I had more syllables!!!
Nah, would have been just as strange.
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From your brain, I have no doubt!!
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You have more creativity for creative writing in 66 words than I can ever muster.
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I’m telling you Frank, you’re selling yourself short.
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Thanks for the confidence.
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Ah…love them both, but that second one – Haha! When I first saw the prompt, I thought, “no way.”
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Between the 33 words and the single syllable, It was much harder than it should have been.
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So good to see you here, Guap. Because you are waaaayyyyy more fun than Dostoevsky.
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You should see me when I put on my Gore Vidal underoos!
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Now THAT is quite a picture!
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Good on you Guaps although I think they tap the baby’s feet now or rub their chest. You get ’em!
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Alas, I am a victim of a former age of baby-waking.
Next time around, I’d like to be stirred with music.
Good music, I mean.
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I’m hot blooded, I’m hot blooded…Nice one, El G! Well composed.
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I’ve been Waiting (waiting) for a comment like that…
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Dug the doc slapping riff, whistling Doc Of The Bay as I write…
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If I could whistle, I’d whistle that constantly.
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Haha! Slapping the doc back, that’s too funny. (My younger son just peed on the doc instead 🙂 )
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Egad! Your son rocks!
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A glimpse from the other end of things. Nice!
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I saw my daughter “emerge” from within my wife and was too stunned from that point onward, to notice anything that the doctor did or, did not, do. Never forget the beauty of her birth nor, the sea of blood on the floor; it looked like a slaughterhouse in there! Moms, you have my utmost respect for bringing life into the world. I hope doctors never lose their sense of wonder at the miracle taking place before them. 🙂
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Amen!
But don’t have such a sense of wonder that you forget to grab the kid either! 😉
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Haha! Cobbie’s comment is awesome. My husband just kept saying, “There was blood on the freaking wall. ON THE WALL.” Gross. Anyway, thanks for linking up this week! We like seeing you in our linkz. I love the idea of spending your whole life seeking revenge.
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EGAD!!!! Sounds more like a horror movie then the joy of a new life!
Thanks, I love the variety and creativeness of the responses you get, not to mention the challenge of the…challenges…themselves!
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Do they still do the slapping? Savages.
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Alas, I’m probably a relic from the old days of rousing babies…
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Well, no one’s going to hit you with any crime and punishment over these. That first one, especially, is brilliant. And funny.
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I’d like to think that I’m just saying what’s on everyone’s mind with these…
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Your mind may work in mysterious ways, my friend. I was talking to DJ Matticus about these challenges. I’ve never done one. I may have to try – you have inspired me (where inspiration is, you know, occasionally a bit lacking)!
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The Trifecta Challenges are (I think) the only challenge I’ve entered more then a couple of times.
Great community, and there are some incredible writers who I wouldn’t see otherwise.
(Plus it’s my ambition to one day win for the week, while also tweaking the judges.)
(Who also have a sense of humor.)
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I do much like people with a sense of humour… And I’m all about good writing where I can see it (and then try to rip it off).
Win for a week, eh? I got a feeling you might be up to it. By the way, people say great things about you, which is why I have popped over.
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They are all lies, meant to circumvent my influence with the culinary-industrial economic complex (with a sub-conspiracy in cheese)!!!!
And thanks. Been enjoying poking around your site as well.
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Yeah man, the culinary-industrial-economic complex is watching me as I write this, trying to figure out what side-ad to pop up. Crack cocaine please. Medical marijuana. Make it happen, invisible people.
You’re definitely good stuff, I will follow along. If I get too weird, just tell me off. I tend to follow not many people, but those I do, I follow like a motherfucker. Excuse my language.
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I’ve been innoculated by PMAO.
Welcome to the looney bin annex!
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Oh my gosh, you let him inject you with something? Well, that’s okay. If you turn into a giant broccoli, let me know. I will start cooking the cheese sauce.
Cheers, El Guapo. Good to make your acquaintance.
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I would be careful if I were you Guaps! I mentioned medical marijuana in a comment to another blogger a few days ago & the next day I had a new follower – a drug treatment centre!
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Ha! I got a treatment center and an addiction blog as new followers.
(Though I don’t think the Arizona Heating Systems was part of that crowd.)
Where do they come from???
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Dooo doooo doooo doooo . . .
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Sadly, one of them was my 1000th follower, so I got a “woohoo” from wp, and thought, really?
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I knew you were popular, but 1000 followers? Whoo hoo! Just goes to show you are the greatest!
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Well, there was the follower whos blog was about building mud insulated thatch houses in Norway, the one that had the HVAC installation company in Dallas, a few that sell knockoff handbags…
Followers like you are the ones I want. You know, the fun ones!
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Awwwww . . .
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That is a good one. 🙂
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Thanks. (Would have been better if I could, you know, write.) 😉
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Ha! Tweaky.
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WOW…like…profound….write something about Bacon.
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When you think about, form a certain point of view, isn’t everything really about bacon?
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Again…profound.
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You’re back on the wine and chocolate again, aren’t you?
(Got any to share?) 😉
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SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!! (How did you know?)
You’re asking me that like you expect an affirmative answer…silly, silly boy.
( Shut the Front Door doesn’t exactly fit this conversation, but I like saying it.)
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So….did you find them? ❤
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Ha! Fortunately, I was only driven to tell the story!
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That kid with the fists was giving you a mixed review, I guess. Well, it all sounded groovy to me… : )
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He’s just grumpy because I stole his girlfriend in pre-k.
Thanks!
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Stole girlfriend? Pre-K? You started early, huh?
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