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I am posting this just in case anyone is interested as I am. The challenge is simple: "The Blog Awards Challenge is a blog competition combining literary skills, interactivity and peer polling. The Blog Awards Challenge is bi-weekly theme-based writing event for everyone in the blogosphere. A challenge is posted in the site every two weeks. Bloggers who wish to compete will write about the theme and post the entry in their respective blogs. A panel of regular and revolving set of guest judges will select the ten best entries out of the submissions. The ten finalists will be posted in the Blog Awards Challenge website and is open for polling by readers. The winner of the poll will automatically become The Readers Choice Award and the points will contribute in the overall tally for judging to determine the Challenge Winner."

So you write a blog based on a predetermined theme every two weeks or so and if what you write is liked, you get to be a finalist vying for the chance to be the champion. I don't know if there's a prize but I'm up for the challenge. My blogs aren't commercially palatable and I don't know if I have serious readers out there. I have consciously avoided telling my friends and family about this blog of mine and hope for serious readership instead, the likes who will stick because they like to, not because they have to.

Anyway, I hope the challenge themes would be as lame as I am. I hate to admit it, my crass engagement with popular culture has been the least inspired. So here's one way to hone it again through this challenge.

Bring it on.