The Barrelhouse Invitational: Pop Culture Essay Competition

It's a new Barrelhouse Invitational, and this time we're offering more than just the Mr. T in Your Pocket. Not that the Mr. T in Your Pocket isn't a fabulous device that is, as we've said before, appropriate for all occasions. It's just that this time we're actually offering cash money. Two hundred big ones, to be exact. Plus publication in Barrelhouse issue three.

So what is a pop culture essay? We're calling it an essay that touches on pop culture in some way. In the past, we've published essays on Barry Bonds, convenience stores, Godzilla, Magnum PI, movies (shittiness of), and rock (fleeting potency of).

So we're pretty much up for anything you can throw at us. If, along the way, we learn a little about you, the world as we know it, questions big and small, or just a whole lot that we didn't know about AC/DC or Sid and Marty Kroft or the Scooby Gang, that's all the better.

More information, details about how to enter, and all that jazz, is up on the site. Contest runs from now through St. Patrick's Day. $200 big ones for the winner, plus publication in big bad Barrelhouse number three. Second place gets $50 and publication in the same issue.

Oh, it'll run you $13 bucks to enter, but it'll be worth it.