Criteria? What have you been smoking? Is there anything about DeScope that looks like we are too terribly uptight about criteria and formats and stuff? Just get your stuff to us, OK?
We call upon you, the many, many good men and / or women of the themed entertainment design and development racket to take a few moments out of your busy schedules to kludge together submissions for us out of the crankier parts of old e-mails sent in blind rages to co-workers.
Submit to . . .
. . . Our baser instincts. Or . . . click here:
Format
OK, there is one thing: we would prefer words and pictures to be in a real world format and not a wild and wooly, next generation of cutting edge 3D CAD format that requires a $3000 graphics application to open and that we'll have to go through all the trouble of getting a bootlegged version and downloading it from ThePirateBay.org. Regular old word-processed -- heck, even ASCII -- text and graphics in ".gif," or ".jpg" or something like that will do. ".Zip" archives are dandy, if you want to send a bunch of stuff.
Attribution
We rather you don't use your real name. Nothing wrong with the use of pseudonyms, that's our motto. They worked for Sam Clemens, Werner Erhard, the Right Reverend Charles Dodgson, and Dear Abby, so who are we to break from this fine tradition? After all, we're going to continue to worh together our in the real world, so we sure ain't gonna mess up that arrangement, believe you us! So, supply us a fake name to go with your real thoughts (Funky Church of the SubGenius/Dear Abby pseudonyms are cool . . .). If you'd like, we can come up with a properly anonymous moniker for you.
Copyright
Make sure that what you send to us isn't too obviously stolen from somewhere else, OK?
Style
Uh . . . yeah. That's a big issue with us here, as you can well image, coming right after "profitability" as something that keeps us awake at night. You've seen what the general tone of past issues has been so please feel free to do a lot better than that.
Obscenity
We don't give a shit.
Content
Not terribly content, but if we smile on through we can fake it. As to the content, well, have a look at what we and others like us have wasted time writing about. Not only, but also, this cheat-sheet below is a pretty general listing of suggestions of the kinds of stuff we'd like to see:
Rants about anything and everything good, bad, or strange that is "themed" and / or "designed" amd / or "developed.". . . And, of course . . .Nomenclature: words, jargon, phrases, and curses culled from the rich language of the themed entertainment design and development racket!
Memories of nifty theme parks or good projects gone by!
Fever-dream memory hell-dumps about bad themeing experiences or projects of doom about which you'd rather never think again . . . after you pour out those memories in all-too public text!
Amusement park / theme park / museum / edu-, eater, shopper-tianment memories, especially from all y'all who now work or once worked in a venue of that nature!
Amusement park foods: "Corn dogs and funnel cakes: blessed events or the work of the devil?"
Sketches, photos, audio, video, anything to keep future issues from looking so, well, not-graphical amd deathy quiet!
Anything and everything that you think might appear in an online publication with the words "cranky," "Design," and "development" together in the title.
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