Carnival Buzz

Welcome to the first ever New Carnival Showcase, the blog carnival that provides a showcase for new blog carnivals. With one new carnival starting every day, the blogosphere has an abundance of new carnivals to enjoy.

'Tis The Season

First up are the two carnivals who submitted links, the Festival of Frugality, which already has four editions to its credit, and the Carnival of Christmas, the only annual carnival that we know about. Somehow it seems appropriate to feature these two carnivals since those of us who overspent our way through Christmas may need some tips on frugality.

If the first edition is any indication, the Carnival of Christmas is another reason that it's too bad Christmas comes only once a year. Lots of good Christmas stories and humor (our fav is the list of things tinsel, including the Tinsel Triathalon).

For your frugal post-holiday shopping, check out the latest edition of Festival of Frugality. Tips on shopping at malls and pawn shops, not to mention suggestions on how to exercise and reduce monthly bills at the same time!

Different Strokes

Many of the new carnivals provide windows to different communities. I've written about Mars & Venus Go To Shul before. I thought the first edition on JDating covered the great dating issues of our time, like "you don't look like your profile."

Carnival of Beauty features blog posts of Christian women dealing with the mundane and the spritual. The fourth edition includes stories about time management and fence mending.

Carnival of Feminists gives another view on women's lives. The third edition compares feminism in the 1970s with feminism in this decade. And, no, we didn't know that in 1979 some college bookstores refused to sell Our Bodies, Ourselves.

The last carnival in this edition of New Carnival Showcase is the Carnival of Bent Attractions, the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans, and queer carnival. Whew, Blog Carnival has turned into quite a melting pot. Its first edition covers an array of topics and ends with a bit about Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome. We didn't know what that was. Do you?

End Notes

Thanks for checking out the premiere edition of New Carnival Showcase! Below is the 4-1-1 on the carnival if you'd like to participate in the future.

If you've started a new carnival in the past three months, please submit the permalink to your best edition to date to the New Carnival Showcase submission page. Of course, what the New Carnival Showcase really wants is the behind-the-scenes dirt! So, include a few words about what inspired the carnival, who's involved, and the vision of the carnival.

We're looking for hosts for future editions, too. If you're interested, go to the New Carnival Showcase page, click on "Steven" (next to "Maintained by:"), and leave your contact information there.

Submission Guidelines

• The new blog carnival should be no older than three months.
• Submit a permalink to one edition of the new blog carnival.
• Give the name of the new blog carnival.
• Include information about what inspired the carnival, who's participating, and the vision of the carnival.