In this week's contest: Suggest one or more humorous ideas – as many as 25 total – for a contemporary artwork; feel free to describe it in a humorous way. See the examples in Gene Weingarten's Feb.16 Substack column, The Gene Pool, at bit.ly/inv-week-7 . (See the whole Gene Pool at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.)
How to format your entries:
Write each one of your entries as one continuous line; in other words, DON'T put a title for the work on one line and then press Enter and put the description on the next line. Just write each entry as a single paragraph -- otherwise those parts will be scattered to the winds when the Empress shuffles everyone's entries into one big alphabetical anonymous list.
Include as many as 25 entries in the area below where it says "Your answer." It's best to copy them in from another document so you'll have them if your computer suddenly dies or something, or if you click to submit the form and something goes wonky.
Note: Your auto-reply confirmation might be missing formatting, with everything squished into one big blob of text, but it seems that it's nothing to worry about; the entries have been coming out fine on this end..
Entry deadline is one moment before midnight on Friday, Feb. 24. Results will be posted in Gene's chat on Thursday, March 2. Entries will sometimes be edited by the Empress and/or Czar for space, taste and just better wording of the joke. Unfortunately, time doesn’t permit full consultations about every editing tweak.
Every entry will be personally read and ruminated on (ewwww!) every week by either the Czar or the Empress or, when there's time, by both of us.
