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UPDATE: I\u2019ve gone and done it. \u00a0Check the \u201cSatire\u201d category<\/a>\u00a0to see the results of my efforts to date.<\/em><\/p>\n

Advise me.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I fantasize about making an anonymous satire blog, but of course I never do it, since, well, I have enough things to go to confession for without adding, \u201cI published 98% of my uncharitable thoughts on the internet.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m keeping it at a cool 10%, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the inimitable Larry D. is back to work at Acts of the Apostasy<\/a>, and he laments the shortage of good Catholic humor around places these days. \u00a0He fails to mention Dr. Boli<\/a>\u00a0(whose appeal is \u201cCatholic\u201d in the \u201cUniversal\u201d meaning of the word, not because it\u2019s a religion-themed thing). \u00a0Dr. Boli\u2019s the only blog I read cover-to-cover, and you would read it too, if you had any sense. \u00a0I\u2019m a fan of the other humor blogs Larry mentions, because, well, humor. \u00a0I also like Lark News<\/a> if you go in for evangelical.<\/p>\n

So my blogger angst:<\/p>\n

1) \u00a0Will I be any good at it? \u00a0Not that such a fear ever stopped me from writing something before, so I don\u2019t see what bearing that has on the topic.<\/p>\n

2) The solution to pollution is dilution? \u00a0Nah, no worries there, this blog is already all over the map. \u00a0One more state can\u2019t hurt, right?<\/p>\n

3) I really do try to keep it charitable. \u00a0Which turns the satire fodder trough into a teeny tiny salad plate of things people can actually joke about. \u00a0So, a challenge. \u00a0Who doesn\u2019t like a challenge?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Literary Criticism:\u00a0<\/strong>Satire falls flat when you stretch beyond your area of expertise. \u00a0They say \u201cwrite what you know,\u201d and in satire, writing what you think you know just makes you sound bitter. \u00a0Or clueless. \u00a0I\u2019ve read a few pieces lately from writers I generally like, but where the work fell apart when the object of the humor degenerated into a straw man.<\/p>\n

So. #3 again. \u00a0It\u2019s not as easy to do well as people imagine.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Honest discussion is par for the course. \u00a0Disagreement refines ideas into solid arguments. \u00a0Rudeness just lets everyone know what gutter you crawled out of. \u00a0Knock it off.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"