Mad Kane’s Political Madness

Cool news! I’m a 2008 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor Competition finalist. (The humor column that got me onto the finalists list is Guide For The Opera Impaired.)

“We had a delightful time selecting our top ten finalists this year,” said Robert Benchley Society chairperson David Trumbull. “It is a true honor to turn the job of selecting the top four essays over to Bob Newhart.”

“All of the entries are read blind. No one knows who wrote which essay until the judging is finished. This keeps the competition entirely merit based,” said Horace J. Digby, a past Benchley Society Award winner…

Newhart’s selection and ranking of the top four winners for this year’s Robert Benchley Society Awards will be announced the week of July 6th.

The Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor is an international writing competition dedicated to the warm, self-effacing comic writing style that made Benchley so beloved during his lifetime. …

I thought I’d celebrate with a limerick:

I can barely maintain my sobriety
Cuz the great Robert Benchley Society
Held a contest and wow,
I’m a finalist now.
Will I win the top prize? High anxiety!

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This space has been quiet of late.
But it’s not that my readers don’t rate.
I’ve broken my wrist,
And my brain’s in a twist
From pain killers. Writing must wait.

Technorati Tags: Pain Killers, Broken Wrist, Brain Humor, Health Limerick, Injury Verse. Accident Poem

I was a bit grossed out to learn that “The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base has come up with a  dung-for-profit scheme that turns droppings from the endangered species into odour-free souvenirs ranging from bookmarks to Olympic-themed statues… .”   Such creative marketing cries out for a limerick, don’t you think?

Chinese Exports — The Real Poop
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Did that Chinese-made gift make you whoop?
I must warn you — they may have used poop.
I mean panda dung. Yuck!
Don’t want giftware that’s muck?
Well, at least they don’t use it for soup.

(You can find more of my animal related poems and humor here.)

And now it’s time for a crappy poll:

Technorati Tags: Chinese Exports, Export Humor, Panda Dung, Dung-for-Profit, Endangered Species, Panda Excrement, Gifts, Giftware Humor, China Gifts, Olympic-Themed Statues, Olympics Satire

Here’s what I’ve posted recently on my other (non-political humor) blog:
* That Errant List
* Taxing Times
* Ode To Unselfishness
* Form 1040 Blues
* It’s Not That I Don’t Like Movies, But…
* Chafing At Chick
* A Spam Filter That Really Works Would Be Nice
* A Rueful Rhyme
* Boot-Licked
* Collegiate Conversation
* Belated Apology
* Stop Yelling!!!!!!!!
* Musical Faux Pas 

Technorati Tags: Limerick Humor, Tax Limerick, Musical Limerick, Spam Humor, Collegiate Application Humor, Apologies, List Humor, Sexist Humor

If you’re not a regular reader of my other non-political humor blog, you’ve probably missed my spring limerick contest announcement.

Based on the comments some of you post here, I know some of you like writing limericks.  And if you visit here regularly, you surely must enjoy reading them. (Either that, or you’re a masochist.)

I hope you’ll consider checking out and perhaps even entering my spring limerick contest. There’s even a financial inducement — prize money for the top two submissions!

Technorati Tags: Spring Limerick Contest

Here’s just some of what you’ve missed lately, if you haven’t been visiting my other (non-political humor) blog:

* Office Politics
* Man Can’t Live By Bread Alone … Or Can He?
* Backup Blues
* Surmounting Marriage
* Open Sesame
* Deep Pockets / Pricey Dockets
* A Biting Limerick
* Amusing Wine?
* Marriage Catch
* O’Donnell v. The Donald

Technorati Tags: Wine, Marriage, The Donald, Rosie O’Donnell, Dentists, Mountain Climbing, CDs, Computer Backups, Bread, Money, Office Politics

Some major bloggers (most prominently Atrios/Eschaton and Kos) have recently instituted a blogroll purge, eliminating, for the most part, all but the usual suspects.  And to add insult to injury, they referred to it in Orwellian fashion as “Blogroll Amnesty Day.” 

Now Kos never saw fit to link me, but I was on Eschaton’s blogroll for years until this wholesale purge, discussed  here by skippy, here by Jon Swift, and again by skippy here, cause you can never have too much skippy.

Blogroll scrooges should be penalized, don’t you think?

Blogroll Scrooges Must Be Punished (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Mr. Eschaton’s wholesale de-linkage
Hurts small bloggers through blogroll link shrinkage.
Kos has done the same thing.
Both are scrooges left-wing.
I’ve de-linked them and won’t give them inkage.

Technorati Tags: Kos, Atrios, Eschaton, Blogrolls, Blogrolling, Linkage, Scrooge, Skippy, Jon Swift, Blogroll Purges, Blogroll Amnesty Day, Usual Suspects, Orwellian, De-linkage

Here’s what I’ve posted recently on my other (non-political humor) blog:

Wine Tasting Robots, Oh My!
Attention Wal-Mart … Patients?
Secret Shopper
Ode To Genetically Altered Cats
False Alarm
How To Disorganize Your Life
Ode To Spinach
Musical Accord
Ode To the Segway Scooter
How To Plan A Trip
The Wonderbra Song

Technorati Tags: Wine Humor, Shopping Humor, Cat Humor, Wonderbra Humor, Travel Humor, Segway Humor, Spinach Humor, Music Humor

If you’re reading this post, you know my Mad Kane’s Notables Blog has a new name, look, and most important, a new address.

Why the change?  Because, believe it or not, my Notables is hand-coded, which is a major pain!   So despite my technophobia, I decided to attempt a WordPress installation and give it a whirl.  And much to my shock, the thing worked.

My next challenge is to get people to change their bookmarks and update their blogroll links and RSS feed links.

So would you do that for me, please?  I’d really appreciate it. 

What’s that?  You’re too busy?  Would it help if I beg?  What about if I write you this limerick:

Blog Relocation Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Coding by hand is quite hard.
It takes time from my being a bard.
So I now blog with WordPress,
New name, look, and address.
Please link, so my traffic ain’t marred.

UPDATE: My old Notables archives will remain available through a link on the top of my Sidebar in the “Pages” section.

Technorati Tags: WordPress Blogging, Blog Publicity, Blogging Limerick