“And I have crumpled our paper captain
Now who will lead this swarthy crew?”
-Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, “Lemons”

Aye, mateys! It’s time for someone else to take the helm of the HMS Elitist Bastard for her next voyage and many voyages to come. And don’t ye be worrying now that you don’t have experience being a Carnival host – ol’ Captain Hunter’s here for ye should ye need pointers.

I’ll be putting together a schedule of captains here in a bit. If ye want a chance to command the ship, email me at dhunterauthor at yahoo dot com with yer name, yer blog’s URL, and any shameless flattery ye care to include. If there’s a month when ye can’t captain, be sure to name it.

Here’s the dates we’re due to sail (updated: some dates are no longer in play):

June 28th

July 26th – Celebrity death match between John Pieret and PZ Myers

August 30th

September 27th – NP of The Coffee-Stained Writer

October 25th

November 29th

December 27th

For those of ye who’ve replied without a specified date, I’ll be scheduling ye as soon as we have a full compliment o’ commanders.

O’ course, if demand grows, we may yet set sail every two weeks, so don’t think this schedule be the end o’ matters!

And if ye don’t want to captain the ship, ye can still sail with the crew. Get your submissions in to [email protected] by Friday, June 28th, for a chance to man the greatest ship o’ the line since the HMS Victory!

Hey bloggers!

Well, our wonderful hostess should be picking from the dozen or so options for a banner for the Carnival right about now. In the meantime, a few orders of business.

I wanted to post the fourth segment in the Academia series, but I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to bore everyone with accounts of my experience that has no valuable insights. Perhaps if there is anything in particular that people would like to hear more about? I’m not sure what an eighteen year old would know that would interest the general population but I got a few comments on my earlier posts, so there must be someone other than Dana slogging through all this crap I write.

Next, before the Carnival gets right under way, I wanted to invite you all to a preliminary round of applause for our wonderful Dana, for being the flag carrier and putting this carnival together! I figure that my hoorah’s might go buried beneath the various contributions, so I’m abusing my godly powers of co-blogger and taking the initiative! Ha!

In addition to Dana, thank you to those who helped out with suggestions for the banner, names for the celebrated egg heads, and our awesome badge-maker.

So as preparations come to their close, I hope everyone has fun. This carnival could have some implications for me; see, with the people I know, the high school and virtual environment I saunter through, and the generation I’m growing up in, Dana hit the nail on the head when she explained how elitism is seen in a negative light. At first I thought that this carnival was supposed to be mocking elitists, because the idea of celebrating them was entirely foreign to me, so this should be quite an experience! I look forward to everyone’s contributions.

And everything changes
And nothing is truly lost
-Neil Gaiman

(I have got to get my own sign-off phrase…)