What Rolling Stone took down with them was the central illusion of a whole contest that they helped create. Ten weeks of permanent cripples, failed writers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the judging process: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one way to get over this mess - comment on the rest of Rolling Stone’s blogs. Just a quick fix to get over not winning and getting on with our lives. Then onto other websites that have writing contests, or maybe into frantic porn oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. We’re all just freaks in the freak kingdom now. There is no looking back, fuck no, not today thank you kindly. Our journalism has been ripped to shreds. We’re all feeling like Sanjaya SHOULD feel on American Idol and we’re all just sick enough to totally take down Rolling Stone!

–Signing off for now HST impersonator Michael Adams Ho-ho!

Thanks for the well wishes, looks like I didn’t win but it was fun regardless

…and I thought to myself, “C’mon, man. That is not constructive.”

We were somewhere around Thursday, around the stroke of 10:00, when the winners still hadn’t been announced. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit angry, why haven’t they posted them yet”. And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around the World Wide Web, and the blogs were full of what looked like hired geeks, all clicking and typing and entering their raging posts, which the server was going about a hundred miles an hour trying to keep up with the entries. And a voice was screaming: “Damnit you fiends! We’re trying our hardest to post the winners!”

So it’s officially Thursday here in Washington State. Hopefully they’ll announce the winners later today. Good luck to Christina. I think she’s been one of the most consistent writers in the contest and the piece about the hybrid energy houses is pretty cool. I’d also pick Auburn’s piece on Per Scholas as a frontrunner this week.

Well..it’s 10:40 here in Michigan and still no sign of a winner. So, I guess tommorow is another day and hopefully by then they’ll have the ugly brutes posted. Ho-ho, Good Riddance!

Uh? Weren’t they supposed to post the winners on Wedndsday?

So. . .who won?

Amen, and a good luck to Christina. I haven’t entered since winning week two — you cannot win multiple weeks — but I’m amazed she’s continued to try. Rarely can you show work ethic through a contest. Very nice.

I’m really hoping Christina (multiple time finalist and perpetual underdog) brings one home this week. Good luck CP.

what time are the winners going to be posted?

Ho-ho! Well this is deffinently not a form of brown nosing. I just wanted to thank RS for giving me a top ten spot and all that jazz! So.. thanks RS! Great competition this round, loved the music fest and Per Scholas (these two will and Should win!)

Hopefully these will be considered based on their merit and not just their topics… because not everyone lives near a music festival, and Rolling Stone does cover topics that are not music related.

Anyone know what happened to JR Young? He was a reviewer for RS WAY back in the beginning. He would write album reviews in short story format. Just curious if he went on to publish anything, what happened to him, etc…

For anyone looking for a great place to eat in Southeast, Ohio, try Casa Nueva. They are the business I tried to highlight, just wish they’d gotten me these answers last Monday instead of today:

“I was writing to respond to your recent inquiry about Casa Nueva’s services and the relation to the environment.

The first question you asked was “What percentage of the food that Casa serves is purchased from local or environmentally-conscious businesses?”
The answer is around 80% of our inventory is purchased from these types of businesses, and the number fluctuates year to year based on which suppliers stay in business, which don’t, and any new suppliers we take on.

Next, you asked, “In what way does purchasing from smaller distributors or local farms exhibit the restaurant’s attitude towards the environment?”.
We feel that there are many reasons to purchase locally; not only does it financially support the farmers in our area, but it doesn’t ship as far.
There’s no food grown in California, shipped to Idaho to pack, then to Michigan to distribute and finally to Indiana to jump on the Ohio route.
What a waste of gasoline, oil, and what an excess of pollution! Produce that goes through that long trip to get to a restaurant is also treated with chemicals to keep the food fresh-looking longer, which can’t be good for the environment OR our bodies. By buying local, we reduce the use of gasoline, oil and chemicals. Why everyone doesn’t do this is beyond me!

The last question you asked was “What is the restaurant’s stance on environmental impact or issues?”. Part of our introduction to new hires here is noting our use of compact fluorescent lighting, our breakdown of how we recycle cardboard, steel/tin, plastic, newsprint, office paper, clear, brown AND green glass (given to a local artisan for re-creation), showing them how and what we compost, and trying to impart the thought of using less in order to waste less. We have unbleached to-go boxes and bags and are currently researching biodegradable/compostable bagasse (sugar cane) and PLA (corn) to-go packaging and accessories to completely eliminate any use of non-recyclable plastics, foil, parchment and wax papers. So the environment is something that we tend to put creative energy into preserving.”

Plus the resturant is a worker-owned cooperative and they’ve had some rad concerts in the Cantina portion of the resturant. Saw Girl Talk there a couple weeks ago.