Hot Tomato Haiku Contest Winners 2010
The Fools and I had a great time at the Tomato Art Fest this weekend. We sold a whole bunch’a used books from our booth, as well as hundreds of cold bottles of water. But the highlight of the day was announcing the 2010 Hot Tomato Haiku Contest winners and handing out gift certificates and, yes, an iPad!
With over 500 entries from 140 poets, the judges had a very difficult task this year. But they pushed through and crowned the these winners in the following categories:
Basho’s Beefsteak:
out in the garden
red globes like lights on a vine –
Christmas in July
Tiffany Jyang
Alpharetta, GA
Plum Humorous:
Seed savers rejoice
The heirlooms get all the girls
Monsanto be damned
Sarah Gann
Nashville, TN
Formal Champion:
tomatoes plumping
round stakes, midsummer steaks, round
plumping tomatoes
Temple Cone
Annapolis, MD
Stinky Tomato:
Ms. Tomato was
puréed as the driven snow
until she got juiced.
Peggy Landsman
Pompano Beach, FL
Fried Green Tomato:
King of tomatoes!
Beefsteak, wear your crown of leaves.
Mustard is your gold.
Nell Harris
Nashville, TN
Melissa Duke’s Best In Show:
The livin’, easy –
you’re the plump juicy Romas
in my Caprese.
Dana Delworth
Nashville, TN
Call for Haiku: 2010 Hot Tomato Haiku Contest
Ladies and Gents,
East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest is almost here (August 14th), which means the 3rd Annual Hot Tomato Haiku Contest starts today! Last year’s category winners scored gift certificates to local eateries, and the Grand Prize winner took home an iPod Touch.
This year’s Grand Prize is even more grand: An iPad! (Yes, really!)
If you love tomatoes, poetry, and/or iPads, visit the contest page and enter by July 31st. And for more regular updates, become a Fan at our Facebook page.
(cc) Flickr user spisharam - AWAY
Emory University Textbook Buyback
Emory University, you now have a choice where to sell your used books. This is our first semester serving Emory and we’re thrilled with our location: Beside Dave’s Cosmic Subs. We keep hearing the same thing from Emory students who sell to us: “Thank you! We never had another option before. Thank you for coming here!”
And our response is always, “No, Thank YOU!” We only exist because of you. We’re honored to be here. Of course, you could always sell to this charming person we found on Craigslist:
BookFool promises never to scream at you.
If you’re tired of being pushed around by angry book buyers, give BookFool a try.
In other Emory news, we’ve heard reports of a colorful Fool riding around town, causing all kinds of mischief. Our only evidence is this video shot on the scene:
Jenny Tell the Truth
The most ridiculous of our new flyers also has a story behind it. Jenny, Tell the Truth:
Jenny Tell the Truth
On our drive to the warehouse, there’s a sign where people can leave various messages to friends. One says “I love SARAH” in big colorful letters. Then there’s “Jenny Tell the Truth,” scrawled in Sharpie on a white background.
We have no idea who Jenny is (or if she ever ended up telling the truth), but the phrase “Jenny, Tell the Truth” worked its way onto one of our flyers and is now going out to campuses across the country. It’s also becoming a byword around the office for encouraging people to be honest. You really ate the whole thing? Jenny, tell the truth.
Poor Jenny.
Wacky Flyers Spring 2010
A few months ago, I printed off about a hundred public domain images from the Library of Congress and invited my colleagues to create funny/ridiculous captions for them. Ryan took the best captions and created band-style flyers out of them, some of which I’ve posted in our Flickr stream and below.
Next semester we’ll post the images and let YOU take a crack at writing the wacky captions.
Professors
Tickle
Velocipede
Boxer
FannyPack
