August 31, 2006

Your Urgent Assistance Is Needed

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!)

34 comments:

  1. OOoh, the swing one. It's perfect.

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  2. definately the swing.

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  3. The swing!

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  4. The Swing

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  5. So, yeah, I want to say Fountain, because I'm pretty sure I recognize the fountain (is that Kansas City, at the Plaza?) but I have to say Swing.

    Oh yeah, just so you know, I looked up your new book today at B&N, and it's categorized under Juv Nonfiction, subsection: Juv Humor. Might want to talk to someone about that. I mean, I know it's not out yet, but still.

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  8. So, yeah, I want to say Fountain, because I'm pretty sure I recognize the fountain (is that Kansas City, at the Plaza?) but I have to say Swing.

    Oh yeah, just so you know, I looked up your new book today at B&N, and it's categorized under Juv Nonfiction, subsection: Juv Humor. Might want to talk to someone about that. I mean, I know it's not out yet, but still.

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  10. How could you say no to SWINGERS!

    It's such a gorgeous photograph! The yellowpages one IS incredibly clever though....

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  11. I'm really liking the swing.

    um...yeah.

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  12. i vote for the one in the swing because i live in alabama

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  13. well, i already voted at myspace, but i'm voting again here (for a different photo), for no particular reason besides the fact that i wanted to

    so, hollywood.

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  14. Yellow Pages because it's so clever--the swing is lovely, but the YP is unusual.

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  15. yellow pages. that's so clever.

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  16. SWING. I enjoyed a few minutes in the swing while the photographer looked for additional photo ops. It is a very tranquil place and the photo captures this nicely. The sounds of the frogs and crickets and the smell of freshly mown grass on a warm summer evening...

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  17. well, i voted on Myspace already, but i'm posting this here because i also need to show support for my brother, who took the Hollywood one. actually, i was the one who discovered the star and then made him run back to the car to get the camera so he could participate in this contest. everyone must've thought we were crazy to be taking a million pictures of this John Green guy's star (because i bet no one there knew who he was)!

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  18. Swing, of course!

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  19. i may be too late on this but...
    swing!

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  22. So, about 2 years too late, but...
    Yellow Pages!

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