I try to blog serious or snarkastic article-length entries here about politics, news, and society on Dark Skies, but I created the the Junk Drawer topic to blog about more trivial or personal things.  I've a mandate not to heavy-load this blog with the graphical elements you see on my first-ever blog, Thunderstorms in the Imajica.  I embrace the learning experience given to me here.  Not being a professional writer, I've never struggled with the English language more than I have here, in order to communicate exactly what I want to say.

For the last week of August 2005, I had several entry ideas digitally scribbled down in one of the dozens of notepad text files littering my PC desktop.  One possible topic upon which I was going to opine was racism.  I grew up and lived most of my life in Detroit, MI -- a city verified by 2000 census data as being the most segregated major U.S. city and popularized by Eminem's movie "8 Mile."  And recently, I had had a brief and unexpected conversation with a total stranger as I was locking up my bike at the Winn-Dixie store.  It left me shaking my head in confusion.

Another topic I was researching was some of the additional and ongoing information oozing out into the public domain about George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts.  Personally speaking, he looks like he's a Stepford Judge, but apparently there are more serious issues being brought up about Roberts that various organizations advocate be explored.  Senate confirmation hearings will be coming soon.

So.

I had this interesting idea.  There are so many people on Blogdrive whose experience, education or life has given them an expert witness level of information to some topics. Do you have strong feelings about some of these topics?  Would writing about these things be an exception to your personal, fluffy bunny blog and not fit?  Would you like to be a guest blogger here?

Here's how I plan to explore the guest blogger idea:

People who wish to guest blog need only to use my [contact] form.
After I get the contact mail that you wish to write an article (entry), I'll reply.
You then simply submit your entry via email to me.
Text and html links only. I'll do the formatting.
If you are a blogdriver, simply bounce your entry off of your own editor.
Copy from your clipboard to a text file and attach it to email to me.
You won't be added as an author, in the blogdrive management sense.
You can write as many or as few entries as you wish.
You do not have to be a user of blogdrive. Although, I'd encourage it, of course.
You (or your site) will be listed on my side panel as a guest blogger in perpetuity.
If you don't see a topic under which you'd blog, I may create a new one for you.

In the meantime, and the short term, I will be focussing most of my blogging on hurricane Katrina, over on Thunderstorms in the Imajica.  I encourage you to read that blog, and if you have some way of helping the millions of people affected by donating online, please do so.  I've posted links.

Right now, I'm watching live video of a New Orleans resident struggling to walk toward high ground through neck-deep and nasty water, while carrying his mountain bike.  That would be me, in that unimaginable situation, except I'd likely also have the Skiddy perched on my head, claws deep in my scalp and howling her kitty howl.

Snarkastic?!  I think I just made up another word. Murble.


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