Today’s blogging 101 assignment is read six posts that use the writing prompt I picked last night and comment on at least two of them.

I did it…

But we’re into the third week of this thing now and we’re still getting asked to do things that don’t involve actually writing anything on our own page? Is this blogging 101 or is it being active in wordpress.com 101? ‘Cause I think this has more to do with generating wordpress.com traffic than anything else. I’m kinda pissed off about it. Like, what a waste of time this thing has been.

The Daily Post gives writing prompts. Bunches of them. You can keep refreshing the widget to get more and more new prompts. Today’s Blogging 101 prompt is to go to the Daily Post and grab a writing prompt. Umm… okay.

Verbal Ticks…

I know I have a few verbal ticks, but that’s not where I’m going with this. I have spent most of my adult life being one of those dicks who quotes movies and TV shows left and right. Spaceballs and Star Wars are big ones, but if there can be only one then it’s The Highlander (see what I did there?). Mystery Science Theater 3000 is pretty much the perfect show for my tastes.

Today I’d like to discuss a show that seems to be catering itself to people like me. The Walking Dead.

While the show is very far from a catch phrase creation machine, there is one character, Abraham, who recently has started becoming a source for new and exciting ways to use the word “dick”. A couple of weeks ago gave us something like, that plan just got dicked. Last night gave us one of the greatest exclamations in television history when, as the zombies were closing in, Abraham gave an exasperated, “Mother Dick”. I was sitting up in bed watching on my iPad (thanks Verizon FiOS app!) and my beloved, beautiful, brilliant (the three B’s) wife was asleep next to me. When the Mother Dick was exclaimed I had to put my hand over my mouth to stifle my guffaw so as to not wake her.

Adding to what I will now refer to as The Abrahamisms, or the Abraham Dickisms. (I like that one better) was the phrase born on The Talking Dead a couple of weeks ago. I missed the actual moment of creation, but Kevin Smith was a guest that week and I hope with all my heart that he was the one who first uttered it. Porch Dick. Meaning someone who acts like a dick while sitting safely on his own front porch. Absolutely brilliant!

So kudos to The Walking Dead for giving me all sorts of new TV quotes with which to annoy you good people, and for creatively coming up with new and improved ways to use the word Dick. Your assignment for the coming week is to therefore try to use the phrase “mother dick” in polite conversation.

Enjoy.