If you’ve been playing along at home, you know that we’re moving to new downtown digs at the end of the week. We’re right now packing up our offices and throwing away — I mean, recycling — about 8 metric tons of old magazines and other publishing effluvia. We’ve also got some items that don’t need to make the move but which you might find useful and/or entertaining and/or desirable. So right about now, we will launch a trivia contest to win the items you see pictured here. The trivial questions all deal with FrontBurner milestones. The questions are after the jump. Here’s what you’ll win:
Talking Mark Cuban doll (ages 3 and up), Bell Sonecor microcassette recorder (including original microcassette recording of Mark Cuban’s infamous threat to slice the f—ing nuts off of yours truly), copy of the August 28, 2005, edition of the DMN (wherein the FBI investigation into the just-concluded City Hall corruption trial is first laid out in full), bottle of Isis-brand sweet white wine, canister of adhesive bandages that look like strips of bacon, 2 bars of Obama soap (made locally!), 3 hollow-point bullets (caliber undetermined), Parissa-brand body hair removal system, can of escargots, The Dallas Myth (the book by that Harvey J. Graf guy who hates Dallas), Crosshairs (novel by noted local author Harry Hunsicker), Home Plate (recipe book), Dallas Texas (photography book by local photographer and sometime D Magazine contributor Peter Calvin, signed), HKS press kit for Cowboys Stadium (including DVD), Reebok football, Inwood Theatre throw pillow, Saveastud.com mini flashlight (batteries included), desk lamp, Starck t-shirt (size medium, made by American Apparel), picture of Kyle Kearbey showing her love for Dr Pepper (signed), Piano Landscapes (compositions written and performed by Jon Dahlander, head DISD spokesman), and framed Best Blog 2003 award from Dallas Observer. Plus these bonus items, not pictured: a framed and signed handsome photo of Terrell Owens and a $100 gift certificate to Celebrity Cafe!
Now then. Here are the trivia questions. D Magazine employees are not eligible to win. E-mail your entry to me. Deadline is midnight tonight. Winner will be chosen in random drawing from correct entries. In the event that no entry correctly answers all questions, the most accurate and complete entry will be chosen. Winner will need to pick up the prizes at our old office (4311 Oak Lawn, Dallas, 75219) by end of business tomorrow. And, no, you can’t just come and pick up the Celebrity Cafe gift certificate. You have to take the rest of the stuff, too. Send me a link to each of the following:
1. Robert Wilonsky Day, whereon we copied every post he put on Unfair Park for the entire, slightly altering our information to make it appear as if we didn’t know we were being beaten all day long to information he had? (Provide link to any one of the posts.)
2. These three posts concerning Eric Celeste: audio of him sleeping, the day he wore French cuffs and got pilloried in comments, him playing pool shirtless.
3. FrontBurner’s very first post.
4. The picture of Wick’s flaming, spinning bow tie.
5. The post that introduced us to cactus juice.
6. The post that led to the punchline of thanking Mr. Simon.
7. The post where we learned how to “Ranch Up.”
8. The post wherein a new verb arose for holding hands or otherwise getting intimate with a loved one. (Hint: it was inspired by a law-enforcement officer.)
9. The post in which Robert Wilonsky’s nickname arose.
Bonus question: Where do these former D Magazine employees now work? Paul Kix, Adam McGill, Rod Davis, Trey Garrison
5 comments
Boy are you guys gonna have a tough time giving that stuff away!! Geeez whaddya think we do all day… sit and blog??
Howsa ’bout something simple… like
“Where’s Wick(o)”
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I gave up on the first question
@JS: Hint: Use the Wayback Machine.
I started it and 30 minutes into it and only getting through 5 questions even using the “way back machine”, that’s when I gave up.
I’m too lazy to look these up, though remembering some off the top of my noggin gave me a good afternoon chuckle. I hope you post the winning entry with correct links for sloths like me.