Okay, I messed up. The job search and various other real-life exigencies ate up my time last month and we skipped a CotA. The few of you who submitted a piece without my reminders: sorry for the delay.
But let’s get back on that feral burro! Call last month a sabbatical.
The canonical description of Carnival of the Arid:
Submissions should have something to do with a desert somewhere in the world. (If you’re not sure whether your work is desert-related, check out this definition at Wikipedia, and if you’re still not sure, send it in anyway.) Submissions can be scientific in nature, or history, or travelog. Images are welcome, photographic or otherwise. Discussions of culture and politics are welcome if they’re desert-related. The one restriction, other than geographical, is that — at least when I’m compiling it — paeans to destroying the desert probably won’t make it. (Developers and ORVers take note.) Paeans to preserving or protecting the desert are fine, as are alerts of current pressing issues.
Deadline — since I’m announcing this belatedly — Is July 1, and CotA will run on July 2.
If you’d like to check out previous editions, here are #4, #3, #2, and the inaugural edition.
So spread the word. Submissions can be linked here in comments or emailed to me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you know of someone whose work might qualify, let them know, or let me know, or both. Retweet and email and link from Facebook and send telegrams. Thanks!
This Somalian cry - http://my.opera.com/nielsol/blog/2009/06/26/somalian-desert - may not be exactly what you have in mind for the “Carnival of the Arid”.
Although I love deserts a lot, situations in Africa like in Darfur and Somalia show the deserts from a less pleasant side, and I would like this Somalian cry to find a larger audience.
Works for me, Ole! Thank you.
Chris, I’d like to submit this recent post: http://highway8a.blogspot.com/2009/06/hiking-in-rain.html - if you’ve already written up the earlier one from the end of May, that’s fine, too!