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Coyote Carnival 2

COYOTE CARNIVAL 2

I've been without Internet at home and this has curtailed my Coyote Carnival hosting duties. but hopefully I've made up for it here with a tear-jerking (or is that jerk-tearing?) edition of the Coyote Carnival. This is what it's supposed to be. Thanks to Michael Bryan for letting me host. I posted a few words about me earlier this month. Who's the next lucky person?

As we continue to get this Carnival going, we'll copy it here as well. But if you want to see it in its original colors, TempleStark.com

Take the Carnival Ride

• Inedible Ink for the five most jolting words at the top of a blog. (As of March 31. 810 p.m. AZ Time)

• For sheer explosive designaminism, Coyote Carnival presents Gail Davis' Arizona Eclectic Webzine. Much like the Arizona weather, if you don't like it one minute, come back in five and it will be different. Wait that's Washington State. There's some words at the site, too. The retired (but not retiring) Ms. Davis simultaneously wins the award for freakiest Web address.

• Best non-commercial radio by a damn site, KCDX. (Hang on, that's this one.) Based in Florence, AZ, county seat of Pinal County. Country Thunder they will NOT be airing, but Ride the Lightning or Riders on the Storm? Maybe.

• Sam Coppersmith (he's gotta have sideburns with that name, no?) at Liberal Desert reminds all of that oxymoronic phrase "Fuzzy Math" and updates it for a new generation.

• With a nod to Cactus League Spring Training, Scottsdale Insider posts about former Twins slugger Kirby Puckett's passing. And cheers for keeping the Scottsdale highway cameras (The only person I've read that does)

• A Greater Arizona Bicycling Association bikeswap rally in Tucson, news courtesy of Live Journal(ist) Tmartinez. And if you're bored Sunday you can be a photo model "no nudity, nothing even close to nudity" for the Rape of Lucretia and other Italian dePICtions.

• Espresso Pundit gets out one of the best lines of the month using the phrase "Dang, too bad Dennis Weaver is dead." But again what's with the no permalinks? Scroll down to March 23 and the "Paul Lynne to Block" post.

• Darcy Olsen, CEO and President of the Goldwater Institute shows she knows diddly about blogs, four lines and a link to a Goldwater Institute column, most often written by someone else, seems to be her maximum effort at AZ Central Plugged In. Cute n'all and she does link to the delicious concept of Miranda Rights for Parents but turns out to list a good point about parent notfication for underperforming schools under the No Child Left Behind Act.

• Andi Berlin, a UofA student who can't spell brakes (true but see :-) ) tells of counting crosses on a trip down to Mexico to meet Romero Gets some vivid humor in, as well.

• Geo's Place writes up a storm commemorating the March 28, 1969 death of Dwight D. Eisenhower (no permalinks, so scroll down to March 28).

• Tucson Science Cat writer Will Shetterly will be at the Arizona Book Festival as a participant in the mixing genres workshop (workshop, lecture, powwow, don't know what to call it). As an aside, he has the first Google Pages site I've seen, but more importantly (or maybe not, having never read his books) he's finishing up a novel.

• Fiction is Stranger then the Mirror of Truth awardance to Inedible Ink for his on-the-fly post about Hitchock's The Birds coming to life in England.

• The, Should Have Got Over It By Now bow To Drama Queenery, in trampled-heart meter goes to ... me. Orchid or Rose

• Best writing in a cameo role on a little thing Arizonans like to call immigration policy? (with the question mark compulsory) at Blog For Arizona The guest in question is Karl Reiner.

• Up-and-comer Arizona Congress Watch for the best "I did not know that (and did I want to?)" moment Comes with free Viagra government warning. Also a serious point about Trent Frank's effort to ban RU-486, that will, no doubt, come up short.

Honorable but Coyote Carnival non-compliant mentions - Home Is Where The Heart Is, photos of AZ by Andrew who looks like he visited for some spring training fun.

• Yep, that Mexican flag was burned. Didn't take long.

• The I may have to "get lost" before they tell me to "get lost" (also ineligible) note of photographer Tim happy to be coming to Arizona for a Playboy photoshoot this weekend. Not your usual "slow lane" winter visitors, eh?

Second Edition

The second edition of Coyote Carnival is live an online at TempleStark.com.

Coyote Carnival - Coming Edition

Greetings, fellow Arizonans. It's heating up from Phoenix south and the winter visitors are packing the streets of the smaller towns throughout the state.

My name is Temple Stark, has been advised it mught be a good idea to say hello. I've volunteered to host the next edition of Coyote Carnival, currently scheduled for April 1. It's just a coincidence and in no way ... let me repeat (with a sly wink) NO WAY should be an inducement or an inticement to pull a pixelated prank that we can link to with relish regret.

I have now lived in Arizona for just over three years. In the 21st Century it's been two years and four months. See, I'm one of those freaks who was actually born in this great state. I am slowly coming around to enjoying the physical beauty of the state and ranging far and wide to take photos. I have about 6GB of photos, many which I take on the job. I am a newspaper editor in Eloy, 13 miles east of Casa Grande, along the I-10.

I was gratified to see photos featured in Coyote Carnival 1, and somehow I was also included, though not for photos.

Anyway, I was surprised to be included in the first one. I look forward to surprising someone else. CLICK that submission form on the right with your suggestions. I'll find a few on my ownsome as well. Thanks Michael for the opportunity.

(The last paragraph was changed to point to the submission form and remove my address).

Thank you. Talk to you later. Temple

1st Edition

Welcome to the first edition of Coyote Carnival. In the near future, these carnivals should be hosted at a local Arizona blog, to drive traffic to that site. If you are interested in hosting, please contact me. To ensure wide esposure, I am going to be cross-posting this first carnival to BlogForArizona. This first edition doesn't have a theme except that all the entries are from Arizona-based blogs. We got a few submissions that broke that rule, as well as a number that were essentially commercial advertising, but the great majority of the submissions were acceptable, and most were accepted.

We start with a photographic trip down memory lane. Tortise Trail has a post that takes us back a few years to those rare times when it snowed inside the city of Tucson, Arizona.

Next, Firefly Forest gives us a photo-documentary of natural history. The entry explores dead cacti of our desert home.

Graphic Politics brings us a photographic parody of recent events involving Dick Cheney.

For the most disturbing image, Stranger Fruit hits home with an image of an assassin spider.

It is rare for a politician to be honest, genuine, and personal with the electorate, but that is exactly where Jeff Latas dared to go in his Kos diary about a visit to Walter Reed.

Kieran Healy points out a little noted nuance in the absurdity that was Bush's 6th SOTU with biting wit.

Continuing in the theme of biting wit, few are better at it than Ted Prezelski at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, as he amply demonstrates in his excoriation of a local politician for inconstant loyalty.

ManEegee gets plaudits for best series on a local topic with his three part series on Open Borders policy. His post is an execellent example of how bloggers can catalize an interesting discussion on a difficult issue. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

Capturing the flag for best addition to the mainstream media's reporting of an issue is Kevin Spidel for his coverage of the DoD's bid for emergency control of Arizona elections through our Secretary of State.

For coverage of religion, Blog For Arizona gets a nod for coverage of the contemporary currents in biblical scholarship.

For best sports coverage, Temple Stark takes the trophy for his coverage of the Super Bowl.

For best coverage of a local issue, Kaibab Journal takes the prize with its chronology of the Canyon Forest Village development.

For best local business bloging and multimedia, Go Daddy takes the cake with it's documentation of the process of finalizing its Superbowl ads.

For best coverage of the upcoming Gubernatorial race, Wactivist gets kudos for his coverage of the Len Munsil trainwreck in waiting.

For best dissection of Right Wing propaganda, Stranger Fruit again takes a victory lap for his post on the Protect Marriage Arizona initiative.

For best defense of Right Wing propadanda, Arizona Watch takes the gold for "Napolitano Hates Children". (Hey, you don't like my editorial bias? Ask to host Coyote Carnival your own self, OK?)

For best media catch demonstrating that the operator is definitely awake at the switch, Arizona Congress Watch for catching Kyl proposing to violate the Constitution even better than the President in a Denver paper.

For best personal writing and nature writing in one package, Firefly Forest takes another laurel for her post on Black Phoebes at Sweetwater.

And finally, for best interview, Darksyde of Unscrewing the Inscrutable for his interview with science author Carl Zimmer.

That's it for this month. I hope you discover some writing here that inspires you, and some blogs that you didn't know where out there. Please leave comments and suggestions for improvements, and feedback on anything you especially liked.

Coyote Carnival

The Coyote Carnival Blog will highlight the best writing among the blogs of the Sonoran Desert region. If you blog from Arizona or love a blog based in Arizona, we invite you to submit your best or favorite blogging.

The first Carnival will be open for submission until February 19th, and publish on the 20th. Any blogging from the region, on any topic is eligible. Our goal is to first highlight some of the great blogs and bloggers in the area.

After the initial Carnival, themes may be used or dates of post publication may be limited. Carnival publication is expected to proceed on a monthly basis.

Submissions are currently unlimited. Nominate as many posts as you like about whatever you like. The first few carnivals will be hosted at this blog. As a community of Coyote bloggers grows, then carnivals will be hosted by volunteer bloggers with links to host sites and submission information posted here.