Thursday, July 13, 2006
Acidman Memorial Carnival of the Vanities Will Be Here Next Week
(Updated to make this post stay at the top. New entries will be below this one for the time being.)
I will be hosting the next edition of Carnival of the Vanities here.
Two things distinguish it.
First, this is carnival number 200! Not exactly the 4th anniversary edition, but a significant round number that’s getting up there and shouting out that we’re close.
More importantly, this has been planned as the Acidman memorial edition of Carnival of the Vanities, which he once hosted in its early days.
What does this mean?
You may enter any superlative recent post you want to show off, as usual. However, you may additionally or alternatively enter a post, recent or not, in memory or celebration of the late Rob Smith of Gut Rumbles.
Such posts might be about Rob himself, even just pictures. Your memories of him. How he pissed you off. How he helped you out.
They might be on topics Rob often covered or would appreciate. Boiled peanuts, grits, and other southern specialties. Red toenails. John Prine and other music. Guitars and performing. Jawja. Life in hillbilly country and the south in general. Bionic dicks. Family. Humor he’d appreciate. Politicians and their antics he’d disdain. Evil exes and the games they play. Guns. You get the idea. You might write something inspired specifically by one of his posts, or following up from it, or responding to it.
If you can’t write something, or have nothing you’ve written in the past that fits the bill, I’ll even take selected “best of Acidman” posts that people might care to submit from his own collection.
How to enter? Entries get e-mailed to cotvmail -at- gmail.com, and should include blog name, blog URL, post title, post URL, entrant name, author name if different, and a brief description of the post. Please specifically note if your entry is an Acidman-related one, if it’s not glaringly obvious.
Entries are due by 6:00 PM eastern time on Tuesday, July 18, and I will attempt to publish the CotV post before Wednesday, July 19 is out.
