!!!DECEMBER: GUEST BLOGGER MONTH!!!

If you fol­lowed a Twitter or Facebook link to get here, it means you’re offi­cially invited to guest blog at ICED BORSCHT & OTHER DELIGHTS dur­ing the month of December 2009, A.D.

It also means I’m impressed by your writ­ing chops and/or your abil­ity to express an idea, whether it’s through the writ­ten word, com­edy or vlogs. As such, I’d be thrilled to fea­ture one of your contributions.

Here are the guest-blogging rules:

Submit your post to me via e-mail (mike AT iced­borscht DOT com) by November 30, 2009.

• If you don’t want to use your real name, then please pro­vide a pen name of choice. A short, pre­ferred bio para­graph to pref­ace the post would be swell too, as would a mugshot of some sort.

• Please pro­vide any per­ti­nent hyper­links or accom­pa­ny­ing pho­tos you think would be appro­pri­ate for the post.

• Write about what­ever your heart desires, dammit! Make it long, keep it short, it’s up to you. The item may be a blog post you’ve put off for a long time, a polit­i­cal hot potato not right for your own site, your recipe for gruel, etc. Tutorials, how-to lists and other such items are encour­aged too (espe­cially if you’re an expert on, say, mak­ing antler lamps or silent drape-runners).

I real­ize these are vague guide­lines. If you’re look­ing to adhere to con­cepts that the Iced Borscht blog explores, they gen­er­ally fall into this list:

1. Russia/Ukraine/USSR
2. Portland/Oregon/the Pacific Northwest/the West Coast
3. Sex
4. Unique/strange/rare/fun music
5. Weird museums/collections/exhibits
6. Strange (albeit aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing) art/photography
7. “Contrarian” pol­i­tics
8. Atheism/agnosticism/religion/God
9. Good food/weird food/strange food
10. Green Bay Packers/NFL/Brent Lorenzo Fauve
11. Wisconsin/Michigan/the Upper Midwest/the Canadian Shield
12. High Desert Cosmonautica and Other Desert Cha Cha Cha

But…I’m not ask­ing any­one to con­form to the tone or the “ethos” of the Iced Borscht blog. Feel free to dis­agree with some­thing I’ve writ­ten. School me. And feel free to launch into an unapolo­getic polit­i­cal dia­tribe, be it left or right in ori­gin. Inform me; I’m a wan­der­ing polit­i­cal agnos­tic hope­lessly lost in the quag­mire of transpar­ti­san rage. Show me the light.

However, more benign top­ics such as hol­i­day bak­ing ideas are damn fine too. There are no hard and fast rules.

I may edit items, but only for cos­metic pur­poses (e.g. cor­rect­ing an obvi­ous mis­spelled word).

Lastly, I want to share that I’m not doing this with any sort of link-baiting or traffic-inflation goals in mind. Two of my old sites received enough hits from the likes of BOING BOING, Indie Nudes and var­i­ous odd/hilarious/perverse Japanese blogs that the nov­elty of big-traffic days has worn off. ICED BORSCHT is sim­ply a labor of love, and you’re invited to the party.

Do come!

Thanks,
MC

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