We’ve made passing reference to “hiring an intern” a couple times, but figured a brief post about it would be much easier. Ninety-eight percent of you could care less about this, so feel free to ignore it. We will have another post shortly. But for anyone who is eager to write, follow the jump.

We received emails from a handful of folks about having interest in being an “intern” for us. Obviously we were joking about the laundry and dishes – you’ll work from home, and for free, so hopefully you have another job. At the risk of getting all, ‘back in our day, we walked two miles to school, in the snow, without gloves or a scarf!’ … we’re looking for someone who is eager to write and hungry to experiment. We started this blog about two years ago and wrote it as a hobby with little or no compensation for a solid 12 months. Most of our free time was chewed up creating … whatever the hell this is, and we’re looking for some like-minded individuals. (If you’re wondering what type of creative minds we’re after, look no further than Cousins of Ron Mexico and Patrick Imig, who we would be nothing without. You know who else – besides us and 5,000 other bloggers – was crazy to blog with passion for – we assume – little or no compensation? Bill Simmons.)

A writing background helps, obviously. We’re looking for a strong, witty voice. If you have a blog, that helps too. We’re looking for someone (some people?) more likely to spend an hour or two researching a well-thought out post instead of playing the Wii.

So here’s what you’ll do (and this includes the folks who already emailed us with interest): Send us a writing sample or links to your work (published or unpublished). Send us three ideas that you’d like to try and make happen if you had the gig. If you are skittish of having your name on posts, we’ll understand; hell, we were anonymous forever. Still are, in the literal sense. We’re looking to have this thing locked up in a couple of weeks.