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	<description>Blog of Mike Snider, long-time MAD Writer &#38; all-around Comedy Hack</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: MAD Editors LOSE all remaining shame PLUS ability to write original premise ideas of their own; as they keep using MINE without payment, credit, or permission</title>
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		<link>http://snichael.com/2011/11/13/its-official-mad-editors-lose-all-remaining-shame-plus-ability-to-write-original-premise-ideas-of-their-own-keep-using-mine-without-payment-credit-or-permission/</link>
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		<title>WARNING: Getting hit by car &amp; jolted with electricity simultaneously MAY RESULT in your becoming a Viral Video Star!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Power Lines Fall on Crashed Vehicle, Driver Trapped: MyFoxPHOENIX.com Cue the endless parade of &#8216;Auto-Tune&#8217; Mashups in&#8230;3&#8230;2&#8230;1&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2011/09/17/warning-getting-hit-by-car-jolted-with-electricity-simultaneously-may-result-in-your-becoming-a-viral-video-star/</link>
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		<title>Going through my old MAD stuff&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, while cleaning &#38; sorting through the accumulated &#8220;stuff&#8221; in my office (something I do religiously at least once every quarter century), I ran across the following in a box marked &#8220;MAD&#8221; &#8211; evidently from the early 90s (and hardly touched since then): A random MAD issue with a back cover piece credited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2010/12/04/going-through-my-old-mad-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Bowling with Andrew&#8230;for the Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s up these days with Andrew J. Schwartzberg, former MAD intern &#38; Assistant Editor and unwitting &#8220;star&#8221; of MAD&#8217;s longest-running practical joke (as well as being a friend of mine)? Funny you should ask: these days he&#8217;s working for Big Brothers &#38; Big Sisters of Central Arizona &#8211; which is currently engaged in their annual &#8221;Bowl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2010/05/08/bowling-with-andrewfor-the-kids/</link>
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		<title>Tourists flock to Broadway TKTS booth for latest NY shows</title>
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		<link>http://snichael.com/2010/05/07/tourists-flock-to-broadway-tkts-booth-for-latest-ny-shows/</link>
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		<title>Better days ahead? MAD going from Quarterly to Bi-Monthly publication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8212; THIS is noteworthy: apparently MAD may be increasing the frequency of publication from 4 times a year to 6! If true, this marks the first halfway positive news after a couple years of unremittingly negative news for the magazine. To put it in objective astronomical terms, this is the first &#8220;expansion&#8221; of the MAD Universe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2010/03/15/better-days-ahead-mad-going-from-quarterly-to-bi-monthly-publication/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s RE-BRANDING Time, kids!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how you get so used to your surroundings, you don&#8217;t notice the paint peeling or the frayed sofa-cushion covers or the out-of-style posters on the wall? Well, it&#8217;s the same with a blog. No, it isn&#8217;t; that&#8217;s just INTRO-bullshit spewed out by a mind rotted from years of writing lame, formulaic MAD-article INTROs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2009/12/26/its-re-branding-time-kids/</link>
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		<title>Book recommendation: &#8220;1001 MAD pages you must read before you die&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who think all I ever post here are anti-MAD screeds: first, you&#8217;re wrong &#8212; I&#8217;m NOT anti-&#8221;MAD&#8221;, I&#8217;m anti-&#8221;the people &#38; practices that are running MAD into the ground!&#8221;; second, if you think there&#8217;s nothing negative to be said about the current state of MAD, you&#8217;re at the wrong blog; you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2009/11/30/book-recommendation-1001-mad-pages-you-must-read-before-you-die/</link>
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		<title>MAD Intern Wanted; MUST have own Time Machine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to be an intern at MAD Magazine&#8230;Good News: there&#8217;s an ad for you up on the madmag.com website. Just one problem: the internships they&#8217;re seeking applicants for&#8230;ENDED on August 21, about 3 months ago! Yet the ad is still up there. That&#8217;s where the Time Machine comes in: if you&#8217;ll just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://snichael.com/2009/11/16/mad-intern-wanted-must-have-own-time-machine/</link>
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		<title>The LAST issue of MAD? #506</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, no, I&#8217;m not breaking any &#8220;news&#8221; here. That&#8217;s only my personal educated guess&#8230;that the Final Issue of MAD will be #506. And since I just put down an actual bet on it (albeit a friendly penny-ante bet), I figured I had to put it out there for all the world to see whether I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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