Spam deconstruction contest
This is cool: Mark Hoback of Fried Green Al-Qaedas is sponsoring a "Spam Deconstruction Contest" -- and the judge is none other than Bill Griffith, the amazing creator of Zippy the Pinhead. (If there is a character anywhere well-suited to the appreciation of the finer points of spam, it would be Zippy.) Entries are due Aug. 26. Full info here. Prizes, too.
When I went to work for the old San Francisco Examiner back in 1986, I worried a bit about the prospect of connecting my career with a Hearst paper. What helped sell me on the Examiner was that it ran Zippy every day -- at that time (and perhaps still?) a rarity among U.S. dailies.
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