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PhotoKu: A contest for you!
February 24, 2008
Recently, this website has surpassed my humble blogging expectations, and I’ve been trying to come up with ways in which I could offer my thanks and appreciation. Because of you, I am happy to write every day. I can eat food now and then. Not to mention, I am able to attend SXSW in two weeks.
And so I sit here, with Dan, at a coffee shop (OK, it’s Panera). Dan is one of my very best friends. Back in 9th grade, I was the new girl at a public high school, recently transferred from a Catholic middle school, and we were about on the same level as Dan spent 8 years not talking to anyone. We were fiercely unpopular.
Anyway.
I happen to have this $100 Apple gift card laying around. And I want you to have it.
I had originally thought about going the route of the goddess Pioneer Woman and having “Name that Photo” contests. But I’m an English major, yo. We need to go deeper.
Enter: The first ever PhotoKu.
That photo way up top there? I took that of Dan at a party goods store. And you? You are centering your creative medium and writing a haiku about it, and posting it in the comments section of this entry. Be serious or absurd, witty or allusive. Either way, my favorite submission will be $100 closer to a shiny new piece of Apple goodness. Apple pie? Never mind.
The contest will close tomorrow afternoon when I return from my lit. theory class (Monday 6:00 PM EST), and I will announce the winner shortly after. Remember, syllables per line are 5, 7, 5. One entry per person, please. And I will keep watch, trust me. Seventy percent of my waking life is spent checking my comments.
Categories: Apple, Daily, Video
February 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
party hat
Dan ponders
sounds of festivities
February 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
sneaky party boy
inspires photo contest
wonderful me wins
February 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Alex - 5, 7, 5 syllables! :)
February 24th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Polka dotted hat,
absurd with casual clothes,
My gosh, the intrigue!
February 24th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Such a daunting task
I want this party to rock
Wait, did I just fart?
February 24th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Do you have fake breasts?
Yes, I’m pretty sure we do.
Wow, they look so real!
The last time I was in a party store, DJ G and I were looking for fake breasts for a drag show. I had that conversation with every employee that I could.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Serious question -
Will this sexy party hat
make me popular?
February 24th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
In flinty Winter
Pondering fashion and warmth
This is not my hat
February 24th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
In every store,
behind every slippery clown,
sits 100 ways to live.
February 24th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
another go, adhering the to traditional meter:
such a party hat
Dan has found his thumb tasty
to wear in a store
February 24th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
In every store’s isle
lies a sad rejected clown
waiting for his muse
February 24th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Dressing to impress:
Maybe something with sparkles
would be more tasteful?
February 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
stay very quiet
if you back away slowly
it won’t attack you
February 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
That Night’s soiree dons
sunrise over a fool’s head-
Warm friends ease night chill.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
i’ve never been a fan of the haiku or sadly the apples (don’t hate me!). As an observer of this contest and an english major as well, I’m shocked that some people don’t know how to write a haiku!
and because I can’t help myself and i’ve never had the pleasure of writing a photoku! I will channel Mr. T and the rest of the A-Team.
i pity the fool
that attempts to mess with dan–
the party hat man
February 25th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Rachel, my old friend -
not circus vomit, I’m just a
party favor whore
February 25th, 2008 at 1:22 am
life of the party,
slightly detached and aloof—
he wears many hats
February 25th, 2008 at 7:12 am
funny man thinking:
dotted hat making me sweat.
Yeah, you are the man!
February 25th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Beware the Hat Man.
He comes in the night, and he
polka-dots your walls.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Dan obviously
does not like the polka dots
but Rachel insists
February 25th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Never been a haiku girl, but… dude, Apple.
the rumors are true:
deviousness looks better
in a party hat.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Pensive, pointy hat
Ponders ’round the party shop
Where now? Pinatas.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:31 am
we wear many hats
happy when polka-dots, not
when no party planned
February 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I find my hat here
will it fill my party fear
find memory dear
February 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
My hat is taller
My gaze is a fancy one
Come hither, sez I
February 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Dotted pointy head
oh what can he be thinking?
he is a true friend.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I am so sexy
if clowns turn you on of course
I need a red nose
February 25th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Party Hat Thinker-
He ponders the glory and
power of good cake.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
So pensive I am
Thinking, does my pretty hat
Match my party shoes?
February 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
In this hat I can
dance like Joey McIntyre.
I’ve got “The Right Stuff”.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Pensive polka thought
Party City, Aisle 10
Which Favor to choose?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Pondering parties
Deep shit but not but still deep
Courting contentment
February 25th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
A polk a dot man
The scariest man ahhh
What’s going to be next oh jeeze
February 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Dan, our favorite clown.
There, waiting in the background…
the “4″ that killed him.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Dan: modeling a
comical, conical hat.
next facebook photo?
February 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
indecision hat
(questions the aisle brings up)
a wizard makes not…
February 25th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Oh, Dan! Other aisle!
Steelers hat is a must, please,
polka dots won’t do.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
and the winner is..
Dan danna Dan..
DAN THE MAN
lol
February 25th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
pensive party boy:
will she like me more in my
polka-dotted hat?
OR
trust “The Party King”:
the Mike Feinberg Company
stocks all hot new styles
February 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
See Dan. See Dan’s hat.
See Dan throw up in his mouth.
Clean up: Aisle Five.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
* edit!
See Dan. See Dan’s hat.
See Dan throw up in his mouth.
Clean up ON Aisle Five.
:)
February 26th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Sorry I missed the contest. I too was an English Major once and write a mean haiku. However TV Journalism turned me away from writing. Then I found my love of sciences and got a degree in Winemaking, go figure. Again, sorry I missed the contest.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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