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by Stevie Z

Okay boys and girls (and non-gender specified creatures of the world - I’m looking at you Ru Paul!) The time has come to spew forth the specifics for the first Monthly Sieve! Song Challenge…

I was undecided for what to do for this first challenge - I was going to make it something really challenging that only the strong would survive…and then the Luverly Michelle smacked me on the back of the head and told me to smarten up. So I did, to a point. I decided to make things fairly easy and universal for the premiere addition.

So here are the 3 Criteria for the August 2008 Sieve! Song Challenge:

1. GENRE - Country
2. TOPIC - Summer
3. WORD/PHRASE - Bridge

Details:

Country - It can be New Country (Garth Brooks - Sample 1 (with the Mystery 3rd Verse, and Sample 2) or Ye Olde Country (Hank - Williams OR Snow)

Topic - Since in the part of Canad that I live we haven’t had summer yet, only a prolonged period of melted snow (I.E. rain) falling since April, I want summer in some way, shape or form…if it has to come to me in song, so be it.

Word/Phrase - “Bridge”. It can be metaphysical, metaphorical, literal or otherwise. You can cross it, burn it, or build it on the river Kwai. It’s up to you.

Well, there it is. You have no idea how much I’m looking forward to everyone’s contributions. You can double check the guidelines here. One thing I did forget to mention on that post was Parodies. I’d rather you didn’t just yet…you see, I’m going to do a Parody challenge at some point in the future. Speaking of future challenges (if this goes well and there are some) I am starting to do a little bit of ‘work’ with a local comedy improv troop, and I hope to get some future ideas about topics and words/phrases from them…now that will be interesting.

So, get strumming/plucking/whacking/blowing/hitting/banging/whatever you do, because the deadline for submissions is Sunday, August 31, at 12:00 am Eastern Standard Time. They can be emailed to badlybentpub@yahoo.ca. Heck, I’m going to try to throw something together myself, and we’ll see what happens.

Good night, and Good Luck!

Stevie Z