Satire

48 Hour Old Blog Wins First Award

I want to thank Greg Swann of the Bloodhound blog for giving us our first award and for giving me the encouragement and support to turn this joke into a blog.  Usually when awards are given the award giver mentions the blog authors name and provides a link to the blog.  I guess my new blog is really bad! Not that there aren’t enough jokes, in the re blog world already.

  Many people do not understand satire. I admit that I love to write it and even found a carnival of satire  that I can submit my favorite posts to.  I have been told that my sense of humor is dry, and I have been called outrageous on several occasions.   When it comes down to it I love to laugh, and really enjoy making others laugh.  This blog was meant to be a joke.  I shared the Joke with Pat Kitano of Transparentre.  Pat thought it was pretty funny and posted it on his blog.  Pat has a sense of humor.

A few of the people that saw the post and came to the blog just didn’t get it.  This evening I exchanged email with bloggers who have decided that the weenie is just wrong, it is wrong on so many levels that I just can’t stop thinking about doing it.   It was never my intention to attack any person or blog.  I had no intention of pursuing the Weenie idea, and got as far as I did with it because it made me laugh.  To be honest I can’t even write on it without laughing.

My ideas about this blog, which  started as a joke, are changing, I think it is needed. It seems that the bullies on the block are outraged at the though of someone challenging real estate related blogs. At one point I even redirected the domain name and hid the blog but changed my mind. There is an idea that is very important to me, maybe even more important than humor and that is freedom of speech.  It doesn’t much matter what a person talks about or writes about, someone will not like it.  Blog writers who try to please everyone usually don’t write anything that is very interesting.   

There are people on the internet who search for something that they can get upset about so they can scream out a couple of 1000 word posts about it, they thrive on controversy.  I don’t thrive on controversy but enjoy a good argument when I can find a worthy opponent who knows how to debate and handle honest discussion with out getting personal.

There isn’t enough anger or animosity inside me to attack anyone.  However I am able to make fun of just about anything and anyone including myself and the real estate industry.

This evening Greg Swan of the Bloodhound Blog asked to be put on my weenie roll.  I honestly don’t think he is weenie material but am thrilled that he stepped up to the plate and made the offer.  I am still trying to decide if I should take him up on it, or just leave it alone.  He wasn’t the only one to make such a request.

If you find the idea of the real estate weenie in anyway offensive, please don’t read it. Anyone concerned that I will "attack" a person or blog, it isn’t going to happen.

I am still trying to decide if the Bloodhound blog is worthy of the Weenie roll, but would like to give them these potato chips because I think they go better with weenies than cheeze wiz does.  I am not sure I have ever eaten cheese wiz so I could be wrong.

Greg, I want to say that you have hurt my feelings.  I get it when people don’t laugh at my jokes, lets face it I am really not that funny, but no one has ever said that they were in poor taste.  I suppose I will bounce back but it does kind of hurt.