Bob McCarty Writes

Guess which online publication saw fit to mention my work in the same virtual breath as writers at The Swamp (The Chicago Tribune‘s Washington Bureau blog), the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and the Democratic Underground?

Give up yet?  Click on the graphic above right to see the answer, then come back.

Yes, thanks to a Google Alert today, I learned that a post I had written and published almost four months ago (See “MAD Captures Barack Obama’s ‘First 100 Minutes’“) had received a mention alongside some of the blogosphere’s heavy hitters in a Jan. 29 post by Tom Harrison Richmond on The MAD Blog.

Richmond, whose article appeared inside issue #498 (graphic below right), had, coincidentally, learned about my post the very same way.  The only difference: It took almost five months for me to be notified.

As a kid growing up in the small northwest Oklahoma town of Enid (pop. 47,000), I loved reading MAD Magazine and imagined the thrill I might one day experience as a writer for the parody-filled magazine with the twisted sense of humor.  More than 40 years later, I’ll settle for being mentioned in a post on the D.C. Comics-owned magazine’s blog by a writer who contributes to MAD.

What, me worry?

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Note: Tom Richmond, not Harrison, sent me a note with a couple of notes which prompted me to make corrections in the post above.  Thanks, Tom!

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