
MC Hey -- I just won Best Local Columnist recognition (readers vote) for the third year in a row -- yippee!
MC Reality Online » Blog Archive » MC Named Best Local Columnist by CL Readers — Third Year in a Row
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Jiminy Cricket! MC Reality readers — both print and on this blog — I can’t thank you all enough for voting for me in the Creative Loafing Best of the Suncoast 2009 contest. You pulled ...

Trisha Blanchet
Hello fellow NSNCers! I just started a FB page for a humor column I write called "Mommy Confidential"... Here's the link if you want to check it out. Thanks! (And any attempts to spread the word around would be much appreciated, of course!) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trisha-Bla nchets-Mommy-Confidential/157371337517?r ef=ts
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists recently honored "Mommy Confidential" with an award in the humor category of its annual nationwide contest. Thank you, NSNC! Dog lover? Check out Trisha's "Dog-Friendly"travel books, published by The Countryman Press and available at bookstores like Barnes and Noble and onl...ine at sites like Amazon.com. "Dog-Friendly New England" "Dog-Friendly New York" "Dog-Friendly Washington D.C. and the Mid-Atlantic States" Read More
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MC Finally had to weigh in on cougars -- Cougar Myths Debunked!
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The topic of cougarsome cuties chasing cuddly cradle-dwellers is about as tasty an intellectual morsel as dining at the Olive Garden is a gastronomic one. Whether or not women d’un certain âge have sex ...

National Society of Newspaper Columnists Here's a lively travel piece on Bloomington, Indiana, shared by 2010 Conference Chair Mike Leonard. She writes with an, ehem, West Coast point of view. Notes things-to-do, that sort of story
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Indiana is Middle American heartland, with small towns, rolling hills, cornfields and cattle, and the little pink houses of which native son, John Mellencamp, famously sang. And fall is a great time to visit.

Karen
What fun to read a quote by NSNC member in my local paper!
"It's a full attack," said Ventura County Fire Department Spokesman, Bill Nash.No not martians on the beach...the wild fires spreading through rural Ventura County. Story photo by Ventura County Star's James Glover.
Congrats guys!
(I'd give you the online paper link but it's my main competitor/nemesis ;)

Karen
Jillian Cooney Oakes is my new PR chick. Her current status update:
Does anyone have a spare Editor and Publisher red book?????? I need email addresses for managing newspaper editors for Media General's newspapers! Anyone with connections, email me please :) jillian@7oakes.com

MC
Rodin said that before an artist can create are, he "must be ready to be consumed by the first of his own creation." http://mcrealityonline.com/2009/08/25/le -penseur/
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That’s pretty highbrow stuff, and I’m a big fan of the sculpture, if not the man, but I think his words need just a bit of tweaking for us less self-immolating folks:

Karen
Rosanne Rosannadanna gives commencement speech to Journalism graduates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_syuD-N _k
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In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a summer-long party at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Share the fun as Gilda's Saturday Night Live alter-egos take on new comedy material not even the Not Ready for Prime Time Players were quite ready for. ...

Tracy Farr Don't forget to check out NSNC's Youtube channel. Dave Lieber, George Waters, Samantha Bennett, Steve Lopez, Paul Bowers and Rick Horowitz are all there. So, why aren't you?
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Karen
I am FLOORED! Tracy Farr posted a parody on my vlog about hormones and hotflashes. HYSTERICAL! To get the full effect of his genius, watch mine first, then his.
Karen's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyS5Hbu0P 4A
Tracy's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBIAsf-5f AA&feature=email
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National Society of Newspaper Columnists
The latest parody. Sample: "Joe Biden sent Barack Obama a video: Surprise Wedding Dance Entrance. Joe Biden- Can we do this for SOTU? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEi N0" "Barack Obama- No." [SOTU stands for State of the Union]
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Click here to see recent feeds.

Giselle Goodman Introduction: Giselle Goodman. Newspaper reporter in Portland, Maine. (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram). Now Society Columnist for the same paper. Any advice would be appreciated, as I am about as socially adept as the moose are way 'up nahth in the cown-tee. Ah-yuh.

MC Hey, I'm so glad to find NSNC on Facebook. Not that I use Facebook all that much, but it's nice to know I at least have some reason for visiting. I invite any NSNC members/fans to check out my blog at www.mcrealityonline.com
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I walk early in the morning sometimes on Siesta Beach. I usually go with a writer/friend of mine. It’s funny, isn’t it, how if you have a friend and she’s a writer, you never just say ...

Karen
So, thank you George Waters (who threw Lieber into his corner)for selling me on the Flip Ultra (to use for shooting my vlogs). AND my 20 yr. old son was horrifed his 17 yr. old sister taught me the word, "vlog". AND my family has decided my new Flip is the most dangerous weapon I've owned to date.
Oh, the power! Thanks George :)

Pat Are there any columnists out there who have written about or agreed to the new terms Amazon has created for publishing blogs on Kindle? I see some major newspaper blogs have signed up yet the terms seem outrageous...not the pricing as much as "rights". Thoughts? Thanks.
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Amazon has just released the beta of its new Kindle Publishing for Blogs, and the blogosphere is starting to react to Amazon's new licensing terms in its terms

















