Photo by PoPville flickr user Glyn Lowe Photos
Let me just say that I think this is an amazing photo – so serious props to Glyn Lowe. But I also think it’ll make for a good caption contest. Your captions in the comments and winner (free PoP t-shirt) picked Friday.
Wilco is playing Merriweather on Sept. 25th and I’m psyched to be able to give away 2 tickets. Though to be honest I hate giving away these tickets because I love Wilco but I hope this will make up for my being away last week. I’ll announce a winner on Friday afternoon. To enter just let me know your favorite Wilco song/album/story or just tell us a random good story about anything or, as always, you can just let me know why you want to go in the comments. Good luck!
Photo by PoPville flickr user Eric Spiegel
Congrats to Vernados with:
“Goooooooodbye, Ruby Tuesday. Who could hang out on your name?”
Runner up to Mike with:
“The diagnal crosswalks at 7th and H continue to confuse some pedestrians…”
Honorable mention to Anonymous 11:48pm with:
“how do you write frozen yogurt in chinese?”
Please email me directly for your t-shirts.
Photo by PoPville flickr user Eric Spiegel
Your captions in the comments – winner (free PoP t-shirt) picked Friday.
Photo by PoPville flickr user philliefan99
Congrats to JB with:
“FORE Score and Seven Beers Ago… I thought I was on the 18th at East Potomac”
Runner up to Andy with:
“Damn the torpedoes! FORE!”
Photo by PoPville flickr user philliefan99
Your captions in the comments and winner (free PoP t-shirt) picked Friday.
Thanks to 9:30 Club for offering up two tickets to tomorrow’s Thievery show at the SW Wharf (Kastles Stadium) tomorrow.
As always just let me know why you want to go and I’ll pick a winner at 4pm!
Ed. Note: Last time a reader complained that I only picked heart wrenching stories that can’t possibly be beat by “normal people”. In addition to some heart warming winners, well, I’ve picked winners who’ve entered first, entered last, and other completely random picks. So fear not and good luck!
Also please make sure you have access to email at 4pm to confirm winning. If I don’t hear back in 15 minutes I’ll have to pick an alternate winner.
Photo by PoPville flickr user philliefan99
It’s always hard to pick the winners but these entries this week made it nearly impossible.
Congrats to Murdoch with:
“A career spent on making smoking seem manly and rugged, and now this. The Marlboro Man wept.”
Runner up to Chalk with:
“The FDA is requiring this image appear on all packs of cigarettes, a reminder of the negative consequences smoking has on one’s image.”
Honorable mention to Sean with:
“As he stood admiring the view, Dave’s lifetime of poor choices were about to catch up with him.”
Photo by PoPville flickr user philliefan99
Your captions in the comments and winner (free PoP t-shirt) picked Friday.
Photo by PoPville flickr user dcjabbour
From an email:
DC didn’t have a county fair or state fair where DC residents could show off their talents in things like baking, canning, urban agriculture, photography, or crafting. But that all changed last year, when a group of bloggers offered competitions such as Tastiest Tomato, Best Home-Made Pie, a neighborhood photo contest, and so forth. Because of the success of the event, the new tradition is continuing and expanding this year. DC residents can submit their entries for a chance to win glory and prizes. The DC State Fair will be held on August 27th at Columbia Heights Day, on Tubman Elementary Field (11th and Irving Streets NW).
If you are a DC resident (sorry, Maryland and Virginia–you do have your own fairs!), you can join the fun by entering the DC State Fair contests, especially the photo contest! Show us your images of supreme DC spirit! Display our cultural independence in photos! Enter your two best images to our Flickr pool by midnight on Saturday, August 20.The DC State Fair team, along with special guest judges (returning judge Dan Silverman of Prince of Petworth, 2010 DC State Fair Photo Contest Organizer Heather Goss of Ten Miles Square, and GayParazzi organizer Jonathan Blumenthal), will pick a handful of semi-finalists, which will be displayed online the week before the fair. Our First, Second, and Third Place Winners will be printed, framed, and displayed at the DC State Fair on August 27. Winners will get to take their framed prints home, to show off their DC pride to friends and family, in addition to ribbons and small cash prizes.
There is no fee to enter the DC State Fair Photography Contest. However, donations to the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization are greatly appreciated! You can always visit our PayPal donation page whenever you get the itch to help DC State Fair out!