“Donuts” worked out well for awhile, but serious growth needs good nutrition, and it’s near time for the Clark Community Network to start our seven part feast of scheduled Series Blogs. That means it’s time for serious EATing to begin. – with a new CCN Editorial Advisory Team. Yes, E.A.T is the new name for the new working group that grew out of the crumbs left over from our original Donuts (and if by chance you the reader are a new member of Clark Community Network, or a new Guest here, and you don’t have the foggiest idea what I’m talking about – best chalk it up as an in joke that’s not worth the effort to figure out - trust me on this. “Donuts” has gotten stale by now).

Chances are we’ll often skip the formal name for the Committee that I’m introducing you to today, and just say “the Editorial Team” rather than the CCN Editorial Advisory Team. You have to admit that sounds less clumsy, but please remember that “Advisory ” fits there in the middle, or else we won’t be able to spell out E.A.T., and actually “Advisory” is at the center of what this new team will be doing.

OK, so who is E.A.T anyway? What really became of the Donuts, and what will E.A.T. be doing (beyond the obvious puns that is)? Well, to start with E.A.T. has three returning and newly transformed “Donuts”; MS in LA, CarolNYC, and me . You may all remember that not only did the name for the old team, “Donuts”, organically sprout from the fertile imagination of CCN regulars, but the entire initiative started out fairly impromptu. Improving CCN already was an ongoing discussion in many circles, but the latest push emerged from problem solving suggestions made by members of CCN right here at on this site. And then some of the people who opened their big mouths the furthest got drafted into a group to actually put up or shut up with all that loose talk (let that be a lesson to everyone). A couple of other bleeding hearts got pulled in along the way, but the point is “Donuts” was never really planned to be a long term ongoing group, and over time some of the original members needed to move on to attend to other personal and political priorities.

A lot of neat things got set in motion by “Donuts”, but lately we needed both a new ongoing purpose AND a transfusion to get more things accomplished. And GIRL did we get new blood! (normally I would have said “Boy” there but, uh, you’ll see). The new primary purpose of the Editorial Team is to coordinate developing dynamite new blog content for the Clark Community Network, focusing most of our energies on finally launching the full set of diverse and regularly rotating Series Blogs that “Donuts” originally discussed here weeks back. As you all know, this is purely a volunteer effort, and frankly we needed additional talented help to really pull this off.

And we got it! E.A.T. is proud to now announce our brand new members. They are (identified here by the tags that they are best known and loved by on CCN): Nelsons, DonnaZ, Dormaphaea, and Phoebe in Sydney. Our new team is now newly energized and ready for action! Most of you already know and like everyone on E.A.T. Some of you may not know every one of us well, and heck, everyone may not always like all of us either. In a large diverse community of folks like the Clark Community Network, that happens. But no one can deny that everyone on the new Editorial Advisory Team has shown themselves over time to be very loyal and hard working supporters of General Clark, and that part is the key. This is a bust ass Team, and far as we can figure (and we did try to figure) it’s a good bet all current CCN members will recognize at least several members of this team that they view as honored members of this community. In short, we think we got you covered.

People were chosen who both had the time to give, and the organizational and writing talents that E.A.T. will need to succeed. One more thing. Everyone chosen for the Editorial Team has the complete support and trust of WesPAC to take on this task in a thorough and responsible way that will do credit to the General. WesPAC is behind this effort all the way fellow Clarkies. They want us to create the best, the most informative, the most lively and interesting politically related blog site on the internet, if we have it in us to do so. And I think, with all of CCN working together, maybe we really do.