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| John Kass: "Contest:--You Write Title for Blago Book" |
| 2009-03-03 |
| Who the heck would ever plunk good money down to read a book titled "The Governor" by Rod Blagojevich? That's the working title of Blagojevich's planned book, but it's a terrible title. That's why you readers are being enlisted to come up with a juicy, compelling title for our former Gov. Dead Meat's tell-all book, which was announced Monday. If your title wins, you'll get a prize, and I mean a real prize this time, something tangible. Because I'm writing the column, I get to go first. So how about this one: "Et Tu, DeLeo?" That's a reference to Blagojevich's former close friend, the former shadow governor of Illinois, state Sen. James DeLeo (D-How You Doin?), who abandoned Dead Meat and voted to remove him from office after all the good times they had. But at least Jimmy held a pre-impeachment fundraiser for Dead Meat at the Oak Brook mansion of developer Ron Scarlato, according to a report in the Sun-Times. But the report didn't mention all the guys who showed up, including Melrose Park royalty. Melrose Park became Mafia Junction after King Richard Daley I uprooted Little Italy to make room for the University of Illinois at Chicago So just send your Blago book title to me at jskass@tribune.com, and the winner will receive a great prize, a fantastic prize, a marvelous prize. I'm sure you'll come up with a better title than mine, although many good and bad ideas are already circulating at the Tribune, including "Impeach This!" and "Read This Book, It's [Bleeping] Golden!" sent to me by Tribune reporter Rex Huppke. Sadly, employees of the Tribune and their immediate families are prohibited from winning the prize. I don't have the prize yet, but it will either be meat-related, in honor of Dead Meat's dead meat, perhaps a beef tongue or a lamb's heart or maybe some veal shanks for osso bucco. Or, better yet, how about a couple of tickets to the smash hit play about Chicago politics and the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, "Hizzoner," starring the great character actor and my good friend Neil Giuntoli? |
| Posted by:mom |
| #6 "#@!$^&%*&#@!" Might as well make sure everyone knows |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-03 22:50 |
| #5 A Pompadour Grows in Chicago |
| Posted by: djh_usmc 2009-03-03 21:24 |
| #4 "Hair -Ver 2.0" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-03 19:51 |
| #3 All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-03-03 19:23 |
| #2 "You Can't Do This To ME!" "Don't You Know Who I Am? "Just Put The Money On The Dresser" "I Got Yer Hope Hangin'" |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-03-03 15:25 |
| #1 How about "The Hope of Audacity"? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-03-03 12:55 |