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.”

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Next, all the way from Orange County, California is Conrad Heiney and a tale called Accessories After the Fact.

BIOGRAPHY: Conrad has dynamic lit­er­ary blood­lines and 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.

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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!****

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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.

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