
In conjunction with our good friends at Red Scare and our on-again-off-again acquaintances in the Falcon we've whipped a contest for you, our loyal readers.
What makes this so awesome, you might ask? Well, the awesomeness is that the grand prize winner will be walking away with the following:
- Copies of both the debut EP as well as the recent LP Unicornography
- A copy of The Last Unicorn anime
- A free ticket to the upcoming Falcon performance (provided you can get yourself there)
- A drunken phone call from Brendan Kelly*
- Red scare temporary tattoos*
- An 8x10 glossy of the Chairman, complete with lipstick imprint
Well, what do you have to do win all this? Write a haiku. Dead serious.
In planning this, we decided that not just any schmuck entering his name in a form could be the winner. Instead, we're looking for someone dedicated, deserving and...something else that starts with "d." So to that end, we'll be asking that each of you that wants to enter write a haiku. Yes, a haiku. As our friends at Wikipedia describe the modern American haiku:
- Use of three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total
- Use of metrical feet rather than syllables. A haiku then becomes three lines of 2, 3, and 2 metrical feet, with a pause after the second or fifth
- Use of a caesura to implicitly contrast and compare two events or situations
Sound challenging? It better.
Sound awesome? Double true.
unicorn droppings
lagubrious testicles
climb arching rainbowsdarkened alleyway
two dollar blowjob special
it's herpes againafter whiskey shots
a mustached merchant marine
winks at a trannyfucking a melon
heated in the microwave
beats just sitting thereSo get rad! Read the rules below, then enter! Let's do this. Yo! Get into it!
The Prizes
ONE, UNO, UN, SINGULARO winner will receive:
- Copies of both the debut EP as well as the recent LP Unicornography
- A copy of The Last Unicorn anime
- A free ticket to the upcoming Falcon performance (provided you can get yourself there)
- A drunken phone call from Brendan Kelly*
- Red scare temporary tattoos*
- An 8x10 glossy of the Chairman, complete with lipstick imprint
Rules
- Open to North America.
- To enter, please use the form below.
- If you don't want your email address added to the mailing lists, uncheck the mailing list option in the form below.
- Punknews.org will only contact you if you win.
- You also give us permission to use your first name and city when announcing the winners.
- If you're under 13, you have to have your parent's permission.
- All entries must be received by October 16th, 2006 at 12:00 A.M. EST.
- Please enter only once.
- Prizes with a * next to them may not actually be able to be provided. We'll do our best.
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Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Seriously.FuckYouOiOiOi (October 8, 2006)i'll win this just like i did the go-kart contest bitches.
7+ RepliesJonathonFallow (October 8, 2006)So far, I've written these:
I need to win this
Like FuckYouOiOiOi did
To make some fast cash
This band sucks real hard
Give me my fucking money
You fucking assholes
I hope that soon we
will be making sandwich jokes
about this shitty band
Feel free to reply with your own9+ Repliessupernerdgirl (October 8, 2006)i used to be really good at haikus in the 5th grade, now i'm not so sure.
2+ RepliesniveK82 (October 8, 2006)In rule 3 they offer an opt-out, but the opt-out check box does not exist.
2+ Repliesel_matt (October 8, 2006)And i thought the Bronx Ouija contest was weird. This totally destroys that in terms of odd prizes.
somegirl (October 8, 2006)I wrote a haiku that was crappy like fuckyouoioioi's comment for the go kart contest.
So I'm obviously going to win.3+ Repliesusversusthem (October 8, 2006)Punk news dot org is
A veritable smorgas-
Bord of 'org-core-ness.
Rhyming haikus ftw.1+ ReplySomeone (October 8, 2006)let's wait for fuckyouoioioi to try and be "clever" and pretend he's not a racist fuckstain. not deny, but try and be clever about it
oops, happened already2+ Repliesmaverick (scott) (October 8, 2006)Remember, editors, I'm no longer a staffer here, hence, I'm eligible for this shit:
"Brendan Kelly's god!"
Says folks at Punknews.org
I just don't see it
-Scott4+ RepliesSomeone (October 8, 2006)This will be amazing. There better be an article with all of the entries, that'd provide quite a bit of entertainment.
m-oo (October 8, 2006)Im in Ireland so I just stuck the falcon cd up my ass, does that count??
Moo2+ RepliesIcecreamwiththeenemy (October 8, 2006)this is absolutely random, but green day did this to give away Tre's bone chip from his knee like.. 5 years ago.
Godfather (October 9, 2006)hey, i have an idea
let's rip off jawbreaker songs
no wait, it's been done
honestly, i just want the drunken call from brendan1+ Replyskaboom (October 9, 2006)The fuck are these guys?
They ripped off the Lawrence Arms
Don't quit your day jobs3+ Repliessceneupdates (October 9, 2006)This competition is only open to peeps in North America and no good haiku has ever come out of there
Someone (October 9, 2006)See I'd win this shit if it was only open to Americans......Us British are poetry kings....how many good writers do you have eh?
1+ Replyallison_le_gnome (October 9, 2006)I'm not entering because, as much as I fucking love this band, there's no way I could make it to the show. Let someone who can actually go win. Also, I'm too lazy to write a haiku.






hehe, i wrote the first two!