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and you, and only you, should write it
How about "Hair Apparent"
ugh!!!
The Governing and Impeachment of Rod Blagojevich
One could be excerpts of your blogs and our comments named
Blogging Blago
and a more standard book in the Boss tradition named
Pay to Play
I think it should be broken down into two categories: biography and autobiography.
The titles would be vastly different.
Or to paraphrase Carol Marin
"Everything including the kitchen sink": America's Most Corrupt Governor.
Master of the System -- The Rise and Fall of Rod Blag
Opportunity Lost -- The Rise and Fall of Rod Blag
Lessons Lost -- The Rise and Fall of Rod
Master of the Game -- The Rise and Fall of Rod
"Pay for Play"
Governing and an Impeachment Vote
IMPEACHMENT
Rock the System
The Original Bad Hair Boy
Friday at 2:00.
Nothing But Sunshine Hanging Over Me
(A Scam in Illinois)
(there's a pun in there about Jim Fixx, too, but I can't think of it now)
Rod(I'm not very smart)Blagojevich
American Hustler: The Strange Rise and Hard Fall of ......
A Smile and a Shoeshine: The Strange Rise and Hard Fall of ......
State for Sale
Stick With Us and You'll Do Very Well
Testicular Virility: The Life, Times and Balls of Milorad Blagojevich
A Mostly Bad and Incompetent Man
or
Sold American "Chicago Style"
or
From Pinstripes to Jumpsuit. The Blago Saga
"When bad things happen to bad people."
or
"Oh Look, a Kitty" - Diagnosing the Political Mind of Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich
Blago had every opportunity to actually do what he promised to reform & renew. To eliminate corruption, provide for the needy to streamline government...He chose none of that and took an alternate course.
Had he come in and fulfilled his promises he could have been Governor for longer than any Governor. He would have also had an opportunity to fulfill his higher aspirations.
Unfortunately, he chose none of those. Sadly, we all have suffered. Perhaps none more that he and his children will suffer when he is convicted.
His chances to become a true statesmen who could proudly stand within the great history of Lincoln Simon perhaps Edgar & Thompson; that opportunity evaporated in just blink of the eye of history.
Rod Blagojevich: The statesmen who disappeared in a flash.
So terribly sad for him and all of us who deserve so much more from him.
God Speed Gov Quinn...
-- Rod Blagojevich - The Original Self-Service
Illinois's Bleeping Golden Governor
More Selfish
Good for Me, Good for the People
Illinois Politics: Business as Usual with an Unsusal Governor
What about a subtitle?
Sounds good on its own, but is also an (admittedly obscure) David Bowie reference. Specifically to his synthetic version of soul music, and the carefully designed and managed pretension that is the essence of his career. Just like Rod, there's very little genuine about the man's professional image, and yet his embrace of that pretension is precisely what led to his success. I'm not dissing Bowie, mind...just think there are some interesting professional parallels.
The aforementioned "nothing but sunshine" does better capture his strange disconnect from reality, though...
2. "...for the People"
"How to Take a Golden Ticket and Flush it Down the Toilet"
Broken Promises, Broken Faith
Denial
A State of Denial
Consequences
Ya don't just give it away.
A Lesson in IL politics & testicular verility
or
"Bleepin' Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Tarnished Illinois"
:-)
My journey from Ravenswood to Oxford Wisconsin!!
By Rod (up day) Blagojevich
Biography-- Tainted Gov, from Hard Sell to Hard Time
Meltdown. The Collapse of Rod Blagojevich.
Blogging Blagojevich: From Boy Wonder to Burris
The Selling of the State Capital: Rod Blagojevich and His Friends
His Football is a Brush: The Secret World of Rod Blagojevich
Bleepin' Golden: Rod at the Gates of Disgraceland
Bleeping Golden: Foul Mouths and Foul Actions
Bleeping Golden: Illinois for Sale
Bleeping Golden: Rod Blagojevich and Corruption in Illinois
Bleeping Golden: Chicago Street Politics Gone National
[although Disgraceland is perfect]
How He Drove Us to Drinkin'"
Lovable Loser; Illinois Under Rod Blagojevich
Ya don’t just give it away.==
WINNER
(then your subtitle)
By Rich Miller
There was one I suggested to you a few weeks back that I thought was really really good, but I have forgotten it. I think it was a play on "a comedy of errors", but better phrased.
Or
"We Don't Want Nobody Mell Sent"
A bleepin golden biography of Rod
or Buy my book...I just won't give it away.
Who will play Rich Miller?
Suspicious Minds
All Shook Up
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
Double Trouble
Return to Sender
LOL!!!
Rod Blagojevich: from boxing to selling a Senate seat
FWIW -- if this is used by "somebody" (wink, nudge), I expect credit and residuals
Bleeping Golden: Governing For Idiots
Bleeping Golden: How NOT To Avoid Getting Impeached
Bleeping Golden: Fighting For The People....My People
Bleeping Golden: Cashing In On Politics In Illinois
Bleeping Golden: Just How (Bleeped) Up Is Illinois Politics?
He rules over an alternate reality world where all of his subjects love him. A statue of him stands in the middle of every town square, the children sign songs praise in his honor and his head is carved in the middle of Mount Rushmore. But in the end, evil villains dethrone him and send him into exile. But the legion has it that one day, he will return to retake his rightful place in his kingdom.
How I Lost My Private Plane
Run Down by His Own Words
(by Rich Miller)
Sorry but Impeachovich just doesn't have the same ring to it!
Governing by Press Release:
How to succeed in politics without really trying
Bleeping Golden:
The Auctioning of Illinois
By the way, if you need a good proofreader (beyond the spell check on your computer) let me know...
I love me some Microphone
Tapped, Twitted, and Tossed
how to never do nothing wrong
You better reserve all those domains if you like that title.
Running Late: Picking Up the Cash
Paying for What: It's not my money
Hard Times for the Golden Boy
Ebay and State Politics: WITH BUY NOW BIDS
The Best Place to Buy a Sennate Seat
When and Where People are Listening
ANYTHING to the Highest BIDDER
FOR SALE
How about a subtitle:
Forced to Live in a Democracy
"Scooter and Me: Prosecuted by a Bleepin' Boy Scout"
"Blackened like Me: as told to Jesse Jackson Sr."
"C'mere Boy: as told to Roland Burris"
or,
Devil in Disguise: Blagojevich, Illinois Politics, and other Bleeping Golden Messes.
Still, traffic is no big deal to me as long as I maintain the eyeballs I need for ads. But one of the things many of those eyeballs tell me they love is reading and posting comments here, so I guess it feeds on itself.
Winner Take Nothing
To Have and Have Not
The Wild Years
Death in the Afternoon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Men at War
88 Poems (in case he wants to quote something)
or
How Illinois (barely) Survived Six Years of Plague-ovich and Pestilence