Archive | Carnival of Satire

Welcome to our regular roundup of satire on the blogosphere (or the part of it that submitted something, anyway). We have some great stuff this week, beginning (predictably, for you regulars) with a post that has the word “monkey” in it:

Ahistoricality found this gem, The Monkey’s Paw, at Bouphonia.

It’s the dawning of the Age of the iPhone, and just in time, alejna has a review of the iPhone: good features, but falls short of design expectations.

However, this modest technology solution to the fairness issue, provided by Divided We Stand United We Fall, looks like a winner!

Madeleine Begun Kane is always a little controversial, but this week she wants us to Pity The Poor Lawyer (Limerick).

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We may be in the dog days of summer, but this edition of the Carnival of Satire is anything but a woofer. Though it might make you bark with laughter:

The Thuder Gott of Cyber Space (TM) notified us of this brilliant musical satire of “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” [This is a video, and you’ll have to grin and bear a bit of Barber Shop for 30 seconds before you get to the good stuff. But it’s worth the wait!]

Strap on your dosimeter! Jeremy has found Marie Curie’s Secret Diary. Yummy.

Madeleine Begun Kane has a Swiftian limerick: A Modest Dating Proposal For Anxious Guys.

Then again, the parents of all those anxious guys might have invested in Gay Insurance [also a video], via the Dirty Bitch Society

Jon Swift returns to the Carnival with his essay: David Vitter: Another Victim of Gay Marriage.

Rickey Reviews “Transformers”, and here’s a taste:

Rickey’s a big fan of Michael Bay’s work and make no mistake, this is his opus. What can we say? The man was born to make a movie about giant robots hitting each other.

Bobbarama has a satirical look at eating at Denny’s for a man who lives there: Steaking out my favorite booth. Continue Reading →

Welcome to the Carnival where snark is our art, and snide is our pride! This week has another fine collection of blogospheric satire:

Alejna writes a column of entertaining tips for American Hovel Magazine and this article on Preparing for Overnight Guests is quite useful.

Finally someone has come up with a Blogger Satisfaction Survey that reads like a Cosmo sex survey! Thank you Rich Minx.

Daniel Brenton has managed to get a transcript of The Mary Hart Interview with Jesus Christ. Somehow it was never aired.

On a related note, Damian G. has word that Paris Hilton found God; God relieved tests come back negative.

Yitzchak Goodman at Judeopundit takes us on a literary sidebar with the Gitmo Poetry Preview II.

Speaking of the Cheney Thing, the Rude Pundit has this list of six things the Office of the Vice President

We don’t think the Cheney Thing would make much of a Freegan Cato beatbox king.

Chris has been reading The Secret, and has run an Experiment with Intention-Manifestation Theory.

Madeleine Begun Kane’s bemusement comes through in her doggy doggerel: Yoga For What???.

Inspired by Judge Roy Pearson suing the pants off his drycleaner, Tim Abbott gets litigious in this posting about the Top Ten Lawsuits He’d Like to See Continue Reading →

The 76th edition is here, and was it worth the wait. There is all kinds of satire in this week’s carnival, some delicately understated and some as subtle as a ball peen hammer to the head. We hope you enjoy it all (or at least survive it.)

Joe is looking forward to that day that Wal-Mart does Colonosopies. You can almost hear the Greeters snapping on the latex gloves!

Gavin R. Putland has an edgy satire in the Corporate solution to rape.

Ahistoricality found this uber-satire about autism, tasty citrus drinks, and cat-stroking evil geniuses: The pharma conspiracy acts against a threat.

Speaking of conspiracies, Jeremy has word of a Potatoey Plot.

Cato explains the source of his hunting prowess: “Everything I know about killing I learned from Tony Soprano”.

Taking catblogging to a new level, Alosyius discovered this short (3 min) film: A Puurfect Love. It’s set in Paris, but for some reason the human actors are Scandinavian. (It stars Jixie Junie, who is a cat, not a starlet from the “horizontal entertainment industry”).

Red Jenny is worried about the coming White Woman’s Burden.

Plebian has parsed the Life Cycle of Junk Science.

Um, you may not want to read this one, if you’re squeamish. Joseph Qelqoth has a political review of Margaret Thatcher. We’re still not quite sure how she was cooked, but it sounds kind of icky. Continue Reading →

This week’s article in Slate on the lolcat meme (here) starts us off, with a Rocky Horror lolcat spoof and a sonnet in lolcatese. And if you want more cute, cuddly, Intertubes crap, you’ll find it at this massive lolcat compendium.

Ahem.

Now for the serious satire. (Heh.)

The Richmond Democrat shows how history repeats itself in: The Richmond Democrat: History for Republicans: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Ahistoricality found this gem for us at historiblogography, in which Republican debaters race to the bottom. Warning: Some graphic content, including the phrase “skull-f#*k@ng”. See, now you have to go. But it is graphic. Our advice is to hang in there for the punch line.

The Epicurean Dealmaker has learned about a new synergistic movie: Destroy All Monsters. We excited!

Over at Conservathink you’ll be happy to learn that a Creationist museum to open in Kentucky; Flat Earth Society, Eugenicists United to follow suit.

Madeleine Begun Kane has a polimerick If This Is True, My Head May Explode posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness. Continue Reading →

Welcome to our 74th edition. The Carnival is weekly or bi-weekly, depending on the submissions, and the blood sugar levels of our pixel monkeys. (Except when it’s not.) Please enjoy responsibly:

Chainik Hocker has an excellent plan for how to vote for the next US President in: Democracy is survival of the craziest.

Ever wonder what a religion based on Dr. Seuss would sound like? Plebian at Daily Dollop has: Seussanetics (aka Seussentology).

Enidd has an enjoyably mashup of the joys of flying & the four yorkshire men. Luxury.

We’re not sure how to do this without the proper equipment, but Hazel has news of a cat who changed its Legal Name to the Sound of a Can Opener.

Al Nye has news that we hope the diet industry never gets its hands on: Jail Inmate Lost 1/3 Body Weight — Now Force Fed.

Madeleine Begun Kane has poetry parody about Bush’s Iraq Strategy.
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