Call for Submissions to the Carnival

Early next month Slashdot Games is going to participate in a traveling roadshow. This event wanders, with no home and little love. The Carnival of Gamers pitches a tent every month on a new site, and offers up the latest wares from gaming commentary blogs from across the internets. Previous Carnivals have covered MMOGs, consoles, the law, copyright, and the always interesting Jack Thompson. In order to participate, just write something (anything) interesting on your blog. Email the Carnival's ringleader (carniegrue (at) gmail.com) with a link to your post by February 1st. There's always a few really interesting pieces each month, and we're looking forward to seeing what gets submitted. Good luck!

i got email that helps with that problem

[iggy_mon]

...pitches a tent every month...

to whom should i forward this viagra email?
;^)

Zonk, I Love You, Man, Seriously I Do...

[RobotRunAmok]

But I read the summary, and I clicked on and read the links, then I read and clicked and read again, and I still have absolutely no fuckin' idea what this is about. "Traveling roadshow?" Is that like a "stationary roadshow," only faster? But it's on my computer, right, so there's really no road per se, yes? And I'm looking at these sites why again? Because there's not enough websites about games, so someone stages this to introduce me to some? "Carnival" makes me think I'm gonna win something if I submit my personal game blog and it's selected, is that true? (Of course it's moot, because my wife is under orders to shoot me twice in the head at point blank range if I ever start a blog about gaming, so I guess I really don't care about that answer...) Does anyone sell zeppoles? Cuz I'll play along with y'all then, I love zeppoles. Slashdot keeps telling me that game journalism is the lowest form of journalism; did someone somewhere think this "traveling roadshow" is poised to somehow elevate its stature? Listen, I'm a pretty bright guy, and I've been around the track once or twice but this thing just stymies me. I'm going to lose sleep over this tonight, dammit. Did you lose a bet, and now slashdot has to promote something un-promotable? Am I the guinea pig in some kind of web-based Turing test, with this "carnival" the fever-dream of some cutting-edge AI that is googling random phrases and concepts and assembling them in an effort to trick me into thinking some actual human is behind all this? I've been three days without any hard liquor, everybody tells me I'm doing great, hey, keep it up, we knew you could do it! And now this!! Damn you, Zonk, damn you to hell!!