IT’S A BORSCHT-IN!
Welcome to the First Annual December Borscht-In, i.e. “Guest Blogger Month” at Iced Borscht & Other Delights. This is my first legitimate attempt at luring other writers into my little corner of Hell. I am humbled by the presence of these gifted scribes. I hope they will contribute more in the future, as they are Champions of All Things Fantastic! I thank them for their kindness, their time and their super-cool cha cha cha.
Up first is Erica’s Impulse, written by Jacob Grier. It’s the story of how a fetching British lass inspired the creation of a fine Cognac beverage, right here in our majestic Land of Port. National food and beverage magazines would do well to link to this humdinger of a cocktail recipe instead of phoning in another puff piece on Portland’s food carts!
BIOGRAPHY: Jacob, in his own words “is the bar manager at Carlyle in NW Portland. Before that he worked in the media department at the Cato Institute while running a weekly speakeasy out of his apartment. Before that he made coffee and before that he showed lots of potential for things other than making drinks. He blogs at www.jacobgrier.com.”
Next, all the way from Orange County, California is Conrad Heiney and a tale called Accessories After the Fact.
BIOGRAPHY: Conrad has dynamic literary bloodlinesand I believe he used to take dictation from David Lynch for the Angriest Dog in the World comic strip, which ran in the L.A. Reader. (“I’ve got a dog for ya,” Lynch would bark.)
Accessories After the Fact explores the seedy underbelly of the men’s casualwear scene in the O.C. (Consider your ass scooped, Orange County Register!) Conrad blogs at Substitute.
Third, we have the unmitigated foxiness and prodigious intellectual prowess of Ruth Waytz. Her initial post – in what promises to be a set of contributions throughout the month of December — describes the cunning audacity of an effective pick-up artist.
BIOGRAPHY: Ruth’s main site is located at www.ruthwaytz.com, and you can see her regularly on The Filter. I’ve also been championing her as the next great contributor on FOX News’ Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. (I know some of the RED EYE gang is friendly to this site due to the greatest RED EYE review ever; I implore them to add new blood in the form of Ruth.)
UPDATE: **** Ruth gives a lesson in cell phone etiquette, details 2009: the Year That Eats People and brings abortion to the Borscht-In. Also, check out her new blog!****
I believe there’s still some stragglers yet to come in Guest-Blogging Month, which is why I’m leaving this post sticky for all of December.
