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Last week, we bid adieu to the long political reign of ex-Gov Ed Rendell with a little Twitter contest: Those who best summarized his career in 140 characters or less (including the #edsdead hashtag) got their submissions printed in this week's City Paper â a fabulous prize if ever there was one!
So tremendously exciting was the contest that we announced a new one: In 140 characters or less, welcome (or "welcome") our new governor, Tom Corbett, on Twitter.
Just make sure you use the #HelloTomCorbett hashtag.
(Oh, and NewsWorks seems to have gotten the same idea ... after us. But do our contest, we're cooler.)
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[...] ⢠Twitter Contest Part 2: Welcome (or “welcome”) Governor Tom Corbett in 140 character... [...]
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Tomorrow, Governor-Elect Tom Corbett will be inaugurated, and the long reign of Ed Rendell â eight years the mayor of Philadelphia, and eight years the governor of Pennsylvania â comes to an end.
Friends, the time has come to eulogize the guy and his impact, for better or worse, on PA and our beloved city. Love him or hate him, Rendell's remarkable stint deserves at least 140 characters' worth of contemplation, don't you think?
And yes â that does happen to be the maximum length of a Twitter post. So we hereby announce the Ed's Dead Twitter Obituary Contest.
Tweet your responses at me (@isaiah_thomps
Got it? #edsdead
We'll try to post submissions â at least the better ones â below.
Oh, and the winner(s) will get something. Like maybe their obits published in the paper, or a chance to read it for our next podcast, or maybe one of those "nut loaves" the casinos are always sending Meal Ticket's Drew Lazor ... or something.
Recent Submissions (after the jump):
@TheRealSidLee: as a state employee who worked w/o pay during the budget impasse of '09, am just elated to finally say #edsdead
@joshpincus: Eddie, we hardly knew ye. #edsdead
@apocalypsepony: After DA, Mayor, and Governor, I think Eddie will get a job where he's truly happy: Eagles commentary on CSN. #edsdead
@SynthSircus: Bye cyclehelmets, deathwarrants signed, hi gaming, legistaltive pay-raise=undermined. Libraries too. F Corbett -we <3 u! #edsdead
@theericschuman: "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "It's Ed's." "Who's Ed?" "Ed's dead, baby. Ed's Dead." #edsdead
FIRST 4 OK, LAST 4 ? LIKE THEY SAY EVERYONE THAT COMES HERE BRINGS SOME JOY, SOME WHEN THEY COME, AND SOME WHEN THEY GO, NEED I SAY MORE.
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[...] previous Ed Rendell obituary Twitter contest: Ed’s reign in 140 characters [...]
This is a really innovative way to run a Twitter contest. Congratulations! Here are some more tips if you're interested: http://blog.lookuppage.com/2011/01/improve-your-online-reputation-with-a-twitter-contest.html
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Rules
Fiction: Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished. No more than one submission per entrant.
Poetry: One entry can consist of up to five poems.
Eligibility: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware residents are invited to participate. Employees and regular freelancers for the City Paper are ineligible, obvs.
Prizes: Winning story and poem will be published in the Dec. 31, 2009, issue of City Paper and featured in a reading. Top two runners-up will be published at citypaper.net. Additional prizes TBA.
Deadline: We must receive your work before 5 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 11. No exceptions.
Entering
Please include a processing fee of $5 made payable to City Paper Writing Contest at the address below or via PayPal to paypal@citypaper.net. Stories should be e-mailed to gimmefiction@citypaper.net or mailed the old-fashioned way to:
City Paper Writing Contest
123 Chestnut St., Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106.
No phone calls please regarding specific entries. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Case you haven't heard...
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Click above to see the rules and requirments.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my petty, manic scribbles. This contest will provide we wannabe scribes with a small glimmer of hope before crushing our self-absorbed, whiny asses with a hammerful of dismissive rejection. We live for this!
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Another week, another Mike Daisey giveaway: We've got 10 (ten!) pairs of tickets to the Saturday, September 12, 8 p.m., showing of The Last Cargo Cult, Daisey's second Live Arts monologue.
Here's the scoop from the Live Arts/Fringe Web site:
Mike Daisey tells the true-life story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America. There he lived with the cult, hunted feral pigs beneath the erupting volcano of Mount Yasur, and learned of the islanders' stories of belief, faith, and sympathetic magic. Part adventure story and part memoir, The Last Cargo Cult weaves these stories with a searing examination of the international financial crisis. From the belief in the infallibility of markets to the ultimate achievement in sympathetic magic —money —Daisey wrestles with what the collapse says about our deepest values. He uses each culture to illuminate the other to find —between the seemingly primitive and the achingly modern —a human answer.
To win tickets (worth $30 apiece), answer this trivia question:
What is the name of the tiny America-worshiping South Pacific island that Daisey visited before writing The Last Cargo Cult?
E-mail carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! (Side note: Make sure you can attend the 9/12, 8 p.m., show before answering, and please include your mailing address for our records. Thanks!)
[Update, 5 p.m., Friday]: Thanks to everyone who wrote in with the correct answer (Tanna, part of Vanuatu) — this contest is now closed! Have a great weekend and enjoy the show.
Double good news: First, our mammoth Fringe issue is live and on the streets. Pick one up and read all about cover boy Brian Sanders' JUNK and 49 more worthy-of-your-time Live Arts/Fringe happenings.
And second, we've still got a handful of tickets to Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America (more info at livearts-fringe.org) — so here's a brand-new trivia question:
Which Live Arts choreographer hosted her 2008 show inside a moving vehicle?
Remember the whens and wheres and whatnots of this particular giveaway:
Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m., Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.
Hit me up at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! Remember, you'll get two (2!) tickets to the Saturday night showing of How Theater Failed America if you can correctly answer the trivia question (and our tickets are limited, so be quick about it). Please include your name and mailing address with your answer.
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We're giving away a limited number of PAIRS of tickets to Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America.
Here's what the guide has to say about the show:
From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to "successfulâ working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Ship in freeze-dried actors from New York City? Certainly! Create generations of theater professors who have never worked in theater? Absolutely! Earn no pay and have no hope of a living wage? Sign us up! Daisey gives a darkly hilarious and truthful dissection of the art thatâs being made, the legacy we leave to the future, and just who it is the theater believes it's speaking to.
The whens and wheres and whatnots:
Saturday, Sept. 5
8 p.m.
Suzanne Roberts Theatre
480 S. Broad St.
These tickets run $30 a pop, so answering this theater trivia question is well worth your (and your plus-one's) while:
Which Philadelphia theater company produced a play in its 2008-09 season featuring the unlikely meeting of Sigmund Freud and Salvador DalÃ?
Hit me up at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! Remember, you'll get two (2!) tickets to the Saturday night showing of How Theater Failed America if you can correctly answer the trivia question (and our tickets are limited, so be quick about it). Please include your name and mailing address with your answer.
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CP's Twitter (which you should be following if you aren't already) just announced a killer giveaway:
7 pairs of tix to KILL ME NOW (http://tr.im/xJb7) 9/6, 7 pm @ Arts Bank. E-mail CAROLYN.HUCKABAY@CITYPAPER.NET w/ name/address to WIN!
Hit me up directly for a chance to win, and follow us at twitter.com/citypaper for Fringe news, reviews links, giveaways and much more!
[UPDATE: 3 p.m.]: Contest is over! We have seven winners. Congrats to you all. And keep watching the Clog — we're giving away tons of tickets to Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America today and tomorrow.
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