Virtual Glory

Who's to say that shameless posturing, begging, bribing, pandering, and incessant nagging don't get you anywhere? The final results are in from The Crescat's 2010 Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards.

Sean over at the Catholic Roundup has a podcast with none other than Kat, The Crescat herself, as his guest to announce the winners; Kat says that she would like "to confirm that I DO NOT sound like Kathleen Turner after smoking a carton of cigarettes and a night of hard drinking" -- although we would have laughed if she had.

Remember that half the fun was not taking yourself too seriously and a chance to get introduced to some great Catholic blogs out there that you otherwise wouldn't have known about. You gotta keep the funny in mind!

One spoiler, WBN is the winner in Best Potpourri of Popery! Thanks to all the little people (by that I mean the Nodlings who are all under four feet high). This virtual award is gonna look great next to my other imaginary accomplishments.

Oh, and the Chicago-land style voting didn't hurt either. A big shout out to my peeps in the Cannonball Voting Bloc: LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy: winner Snarkiest Blog; Aka the Mom, Shoved To Them: winner Best Under-Appreciated Blog; Joe, Defend Us In Battle: runner up Best New Kid On The Block. (The Machine can even crush a Bloc in Chicago-land ...)

Thanks again, and the homebrew will be ready in about four weeks; if you start biking now, you'll be here just in time.

Since You're Here ...

Just want to give a shout out to all the visitors from The Crescat: thanks for coming!

Also "mad props" to all of you who are keeping Wynken, Blynken, and Nod in the running for the Best Potpourri of Popery. It don't mean nothin' -- except to me!

As long as you're here, why not click on the RSS feed in the upper left corner to "Follow the Blynken Blog" posts and get them delivered directly to your Reader? It's private and nobody has to know your guilty pleasure ...

Or fearlessly slap your icon down on the Followers bar like the cowboys of old and become a public Nod'er. We're glad to have ya, and we'll fight any man who says different!

Meanwhile the crack staff here at WBN will humbly try to deliver the best Potpourri of stuff on these here Inter-tubes. It's a lot like life: funny, then serious, and with a case of the munchies.

Vote for our Cannonball Bloc!

• Nod at Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Best Potpourri of Popery
• Aka The Mom's, Shoved to Them for Best Under Appreciated
• LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy for Best Hifreakinglarious Church Militant, Snarkiest, Bat Guano Crazy
• Joe from Defend Us In Battle for New Kid on the Block.

Pabstbier Is Pope Beer

If it's good enough for the Pope it's good enough for me!

Weideneder Brau Vertriebs GmbH, a family-owned brewery in nearby Tann, Germany, has created a special brew called Pabst Bier/Pope Beer. The label reads, "Dedicated to the Great Son of our Homeland, Pope Benedict XVI."

"We consider it to be our obligation to appreciate the election of a Bavarian Pope in a Bavarian way," says brewery Weideneder Bräu, which is local to where young Joe Ratzinger grew up. "The Pope’s Beer is a festival beer of highest quality containing only exquisite raw materials, presenting a mild character and a light colour, brewed strictly in accordance with the German beer purity law." h/t Ship of Fools

Speaking of the Pope, there is still time to vote WBN to victory in the Best Potpourri of Popery category. We are going strong, but we need to fight to the finish!

Vote! Vote! Vote! Minions awake! Then you too can share in basking in the glory of a truly pointless award. We wants it.

Aka The Mom is giving out donuts, WBN is offering homebrew!

Onward Cannonball Bloc!

• Nod at Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Best Potpourri of Popery
• Aka The Mom's, Shoved to Them for Best Under Appreciated
• LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy for Best Hifreakinglarious Church Militant, Snarkiest, Bat Guano Crazy
• Joe from Defend Us In Battle for New Kid on the Block.

Give Me Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Vote!!

The cage match battle to the death voting has begun at The Crescat for the 2010 Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards!

Your humble blogger needs you to vote, vote, vote each day for me in the Best Potpourri of Popery category.

We got Popery, we got funny, we got serious, we even have snacks. Our 5 little Nodlings will be completely bereft and destitute* if you don't vote and help us win. We're offering free home brewed beer** and a homemade Super Catholic cape if you vote for us like you're from the Chicago vote-early-vote-often section or Huey Long's Louisiana.

Don't let a better blog win! Help the poor guy with the full mini-van instead. Only you can prevent forest fires, and only you can put WBN in the win column!

Vote, and be counted as one of the Minions in the Old Dominion!

* For some value of "bereft and destitute"
** Must be present to collect

Update: Join our Cannonball Voting Bloc!

• Nod at Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Best Potpourri of Popery
• Aka The Mom's, Shoved to Them for Best Under Appreciated
• LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy for Best Hifreakinglarious Church Militant, Snarkiest, Bat Guano Crazy
• Joe from Defend Us In Battle for New Kid on the Block.
  

WBN Nominated For Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards

WBN is humbled and honored by fellow blogger aka the Mom at Shoved To Them for the nomination to the 2010 Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards for the Best Potpourri of Popery.


We have an eclectic mix of stuff here at WBN-- it's a lot like life: funny, then serious, and with a case of the munchies. And yes, oh so Catholic. Nominations close on May 10 upon The Crescat's return. So nominate your favorite Catholic blogs, and don't forget to vote for us here at WBN for Best Potpourri of Popery and for Shoved To Them for Best Under Appreciated Blog.

I'm going to take a page from Acts of the Apostasy (Best Hifreakinlarious Blog) last year and fake a life threatening illness -- sympathy vote for the win!

I said if I got nominated I'd hang it right next to my Super Catholic T-Shirt!

Wynken Arrow Of Light

Wynken has finally earned his Arrow of Light! Glory to God!

This is the highest award that can be bestowed in the Cub Scouts. This is also the only award that can be carried over into the Boy Scouts when they cross over.

He worked really hard to get this award, so we're really proud of him. He had to make some difficult choices (for him) as to whether he valued this more than some other thing which would have offered him immediate gratification.

A couple of times along the way he was offered an "all or nothing" moment, but he persevered. That for me is his "shining moment".

I'm also proud of Mrs. Nod who put in a lot of time and energy into tracking the requirements and keeping him on the path since I couldn't always be available. You go, babe!

The arrows are pretty sweet too: hand made Indian arrows with real feathers, hand tied. It'll look good when we get his shadow box done.

Nobel? Puh-leze

So everyone is a-buzz with the news that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since the voting began in February of this year, pundits from both the right and left are a bit shocked and puzzled. Obama had only been in office for one month.

It's not a partisan question to ask: don't you have to DO something before you get awarded a Peace Prize?

Maybe this explains it ...

In Norway there are no separate laws relating only to drugs. The use and possession of minor quantities of drugs fall under the provision of the Act on Medicinal Products (1992). Penalties comprise fines or imprisonment for up to 6 months.

Honest Scrap Award

Wow, I've never been tagged before, so I'm not sure how to react to being tapped with the Honest Scrap Award. First, mad props to David for even considering me: you da man! Now, as to 10 Honest Facts about myself -- really, I can't even fib just a little bit? -- oh, very well:

1. My mother bought me a T-shirt in high school that showed one colorful fish swimming against a school of plain fish and said "That's so you, going against the crowd." At the time I thought she was crazy; five years later I agreed it was true.
2. I was a teenage heart-throb for one month after having the lead role in Grease in high school -- and I've never wanted to be that popular again.
3. I brew my own beer.
4. I've known since I was in fifth grade that my vocation was to be a husband and a father; it was always a matter of finding the right girl.
5. I actually know all the lyrics to the song Louie Louie, but my favorite version is by Bill the Cat.
6. I've been called a Super Catholic by my old co-workers, and they actually bought me a shirt with that on it. Maybe they just never met a practicing one ...
   
7. There are only 7 foods that I absolutely hate: eggplant, mussels, liver, organs of any kind, marinated artichoke hearts in chicken salad, non-Kraft macaroni and cheese, and artificial smoke flavor.
8. I am now allergic to cleaning product fumes, air fresheners, scented pine cones, candles, scented hand lotion, and nail polish odors. Flowers and gasoline are no problem.
9. When people marvel that I have 5 kids, I say, "Thanks, we made them ourselves."
   
10. People actually pay me to break their computers.

Voila! The rules as I learned 'em: Thank me profusely, submit ten honest facts about yourself, and pass it on... Next up: Pat, Polska-Polska, and Paul.