Rest assured that we will return to the issue of moral enemy D. Brown soon (Is he a pastor? aAprofessor of Islamic studies? The author of Angels and Demons? Could he in fact be the father of lonelygirl15?), but for now I need your help in deciding the winner of the Picture Contest, which was a contest held a couple weeks ago that asked readers to send in photographs of Looking for Alaska in "an unusual place." The four finalists are as follows:

First, we have the Yellow Pages trick, of which I am very fond:

I like this a lot, because 1. keeping Looking for Alaska in the Yellow Pages is certainly an unusual place, and 2. I myself once used this very same trick (although not with the yellow pages) to give Sarah a necklace, and 3. the person who sent the picture revealed that "my mom was pretty mad when she tried to use the Yellow Pages."

Next, we have People In a Fountain:

I like people-in-a-fountain because 1. I mean, they climbed into a fountain and got wet and stuff, and 2. they still managed to keep the book itself pretty dry, which I find rather heroic, and 3. in the one on top, I like how the horse Neptune is riding is spitting water out of his nostrils.

Then we have the swing finalist:


I like this because 1. it was taken at my actual high school, and 2. the swing pictured there is the actual, literal swing that I was thinking of when writing the scene where Alaska first tells Pudge about Bolivar's labyrinth, and 3. I think it is a very beautiful photograph, and I like how magnificently lonely Alaska looks.

Finally, we have Alaska in Hollywood:

I like this because 1. it clearly took some doing, and 2. I was not previously aware that I (well, or possibly this guy) had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and 3. it is a prescient reminder that more or less anyone in the entire universe can get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Okay, so vote for your favorite in comments. (And my secret sitemeter will tell me if you cheat by voting repeatedly, so don't!)