Things you need to know about The Sub Standard (TSS):

• We’re a pop-culture news and commentary blog produced by Sub Magazine.
• We try to come at pop culture from a unique point of view. Sometimes, we’re successful.
• TSS is equal parts snark and smart, wit and wisdom, prescient and preposterous. Also, we adore alliteration.
• We have a (Dane Cook reference coming in 3…2…1…) blasty-blast with TSS.
• We are NOT a Christian blog. Our writers happen to be Christians, but not in a crazy “send us $200 and we’ll send a special prayer up for you cause we have a direct line to Uncle G.” kind of way. More of a “we dislike Pat Robertson as much as you do, and we love you just the way you are” kind of way. We like to be up-front about that so you don’t find out one day and feel hoodwinked (whatever that means).
• TSS might be the only place on the web where you’ll find a blentry on Corrie Ten Boom next to a blentry on the winner of Project Runway.

 Things you don’t need to know about TSS:

• Our writers drink more coffee and Red Bull than they probably should.
• Our writers are mildly obsessed with Project Runway (but who isn’t?).
• When we say “mildly,” we mean “unnaturally.”
• We occasionally make up our own words (and acronyms). Here are a few:
  • Blentry: blog entry
  • BNLT: but not like that
  • NAW: not a word

 You might be a TSS fan IF…:

• …you can talk about your 5 theories on Lost before your church community group, the 5 tenets of Calvinism during, and the 5 American Idol finalists after.
• …you own at least 4 of the following: a Tivo, a Bible, an album by any American Idol contestant, a Michael W. Smith poster, a Mac, a Blackberry, a playbill from the one time you got to go to a real live Broadway show (ON Broadway), more than one Harry Potter book (only counts as one), a piece of Simpson’s memorabilia (the show, not O.J.), a t-shirt with a funny slogan (must be bought at Target), more than one Amy Grant cassette tape, a book by Beth Moore.
• …you know who any one of Andrew Peterson, Andy Osenga, or Ian Eskelin are.
• …you’ve listened to any two of the following in the last year: a Chris Rice or Janet Jackson album, a sermon online, a Veggie Tales CD (doesn’t have to be YOUR Veggie Tales CD), a podcast, NPR, a book on tape, satellite radio, your “I’m not religious, I’m spiritual” friend talk about his theory on how God used evolution to create the universe.

Think you have what it takes to write for TSS? Ask yourself these questions:

1. Am I at least a little bit funny?

2. Am I smarter than most* of the people I know?

3. Do I have opinions about anything?

4. Am I an honest-to-God Christian?

5. Am I willing to submit myself to regular beatings from the Editor-In-Chief?

If you answered all those questions yes (well, #5 is mostly optional), you may actually have what it takes. Click Here, let us know what your writing background is (not because we care), what kind of stuff you’d like to blog about, and attach a couple samples of work similar to what you’d like to do for us. Please note that there is no requirement for prior writing background, particular political leaning, or church affiliation, just a requirement that you be interesting.

Want to find out more about our writers?

*All potential TSS writers living in the following states must be smarter than ALL the people they know: WY, AL, NM.