News consumers too busy for crusading columnists and talk-radio screeds might find the bite-size commentary they crave in a Spokane Valley blogger's biting limericks. Inspired by winning The Spokesman-Review's annual Limerick Contest last month, Michael Andrews launched 29 Words or Less on April Fools' Day to satirize current events in five rhymed lines. "I didn't know why the limerick couldn't be used just like an editorial cartoon," he said via phone last week. "I wanted to take a form with a good rhythm and reinvent it for a fast-paced world." A fast-rising readership and frequent mentions on the newspaper's popular Huckleberries Online blog suggest he might just be onto something -- Frank Sennett/Blogspotter.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
in a Spokane Valley blogger's biting limericks. Inspired by winning The Spokesman-Review's annual Limerick Contest last month, Michael Andrews launched 29 Words or Less on April Fools' Day to satirize current events in five rhymed lines. "I didn't know why the limerick couldn't be used just like an editorial cartoon," he said via phone last week. "I wanted to take a form with a good rhythm and reinvent it for a fast-paced world." A fast-rising readership and frequent mentions on the newspaper's popular Huckleberries Online blog suggest he might just be onto something -- Frank Sennett/Blogspotter.
