It's that weekend....

[gerisullivan]

tr_renner takes first credit of the actual holiday weekend with this link to pictures and descriptions of 40 entries in the Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest.

Does everyone know that the St. Paul Pioneer Press supposedly started the whole the newspaper-sponsored Peeps Diorama Contest phenomenon? And that this year is their sixth annual contest? If that's true, I'm more than a little bit spooked -- their contest started the year after I had the Peeps room at Minicon 38 and encouraged people to make Peeps dioramas there.

Coincidence? Probably. But I doubt I'll ever know for sure.

It turned out that leaving the Peeps unsupervised even at a 500-600 person Minicon was a thoroughly bad idea. elaine_brennan, galatine1 and I ended up packing up the microwave and the mayhem Saturday night. CDs that grew extra brittle and shattered into a kazillon shards after they'd been nuked and then thrown against the wall. Sticks. Lots and lots of sticks. What was I thinking? Certainly not about the destructive forms of creativity, even after a friend who had an eye for such possibilities warned me of the risk.

I still remember Bill Christ watching me scrape Peep goo out of the hotel carpeting while still wearing the corset I'd put on for the Time Traveler's Ball and telling me about the earnings opportunity I was missing out on.

I'm glad the Death to Peeps Diorama Contest went so much better at Boskone five years later, and thank elaine_brennan for the supervision and organization that contributed so much to the good and clever outcomes there. I still have "The Running of the Bulls at Peepoloma." If I finish my taxes before the weekend ends, I just may post a few of the photos....

Thanks, TR! The Washington Post contest entries are brilliant again this year and I look forward to seeing links from other Peep sightings as the weekend progresses.

There's a special Peeps prize for the first person who sends me a link showing a diorama that uses the new orange Peeps introduced just this year. Your choice of whether I send the prize to you or to someone you designate!

Comments

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Hey, I posted the diorama link a while ago just for you!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Your link was to their first diorama contest, which I think was 2 years ago though the page doesn't say. (That I see, anyway.) I hadn't seen those diaromas before, and, yes, I'm very impressed by the entries the Washington Post contests are inspiring.

TR's link was from this year's contest.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Ah, apologies... I'll go check out this year's contest!