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Intrepid Marksman John B. writes in with news of the twenty-ninth annual National Penny Farthing Championships in Evandale, Tasmania. So many great pictures!
Sadly, according to Australia’s ABC News, part of this year’s race was cancelled due to rain:
“Penny farthing bikes are fairly dangerous at any point and in these conditions it would just be impossible for us to go ahead.”
I’M SORRY DID YOU SAY FAIRLY DANGEROUS PENNY FARTHING
Here’s an article I came across in the London Times, 1939, regarding the inherent beauty of the beard as a subject for photography.
Coincidentally (or not?), 1939 is the same year of LIFE Magazine’s epic double-page photo-spread exalting every type of beard! What a year to be alive!
Full transcript of the article below.
Thanks for over 400 great entries in the caption contest! You can read them all (except for the ones I got via email, I guess) on the Wondermark Facebook page. Common themes included: “The [something] was THIS BIG,” clumsy pick-up lines, turkey/cock puns, and long Dickensian dialogues.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“You see, turkeys ain’t phony like some people.” — Abigail Lee Kirkwood
“Hey. My eyes are up here.” — Myles C. Wirth
“…So the moral of that story is, NEVER ask a Pilgrim to pimp your ride!” — Donna Teague
“I was THIS close to making the bus.” — Elizabeth Hardy
“Where I come from, ’tis the horses that be yea big.” — Noelle Reed
“Guess who ate the biggest omelette of his life this morning?” — Matt Perkins
“It’s a fixie.” — Abigail Lee Kirkwood
“Before you say anything, I’d like you to know that I got the salesman to throw in a free grooming kit.” — Michael McLaren
“One does not simply walk into Mordor.” — Ross Boozer
“Relax, it’s merely a novelty beanbag cover draped over an enormous spider.” — Mike Finke
“…and so, I rubbed the lamp, and wished for a chick with huge breasts.” — Gabriel Frank & Vijay Welch
“No, actually, we’re just tiny people.” — Justin Hoeger
And the winner is:
Here is a new thing! In the Wondermark Caption Contest, I invite you to come up with the perfect caption for this image. The best caption will win a signed, personalized print of the cartoon, and your caption will be rendered CANON.
I’m holding the contest at Wondermark’s Facebook page — please submit your suggested captions there, so everyone can read them! (And check out other folks’ submissions too!) If you don’t have a Facebook account, you can email me instead; that’s fine.
Enter as many captions as you like! I’ll pick my favorite caption and announce the winner on Friday, February 18.
Machine of Death is now available in Apple’s iBooks! This and other data-crunching ebook news are reported over on the MOD blog:
We heard from ebook publishers and distributors warning us what we’d be missing out on by turning down their terms.
“We reach thousands of ebook sales partners,” they said. “Even if you do a Kindle version yourself, that’s only one of thousands of sales channels.”
“Are there really thousands of ebook sales channels?” we responded. “Why have we never heard of any but about five?”
Also, if you are a member of the SFWA and thus eligible to nominate works for the Nebula awards (only open through next week!), and/or are a member of SciFi Worldcon and thus eligible to nominate for the Hugos, we’d like to present two works for your consideration:
“ALMOND,” by John Chernega, in the novelette category;
“LOSS OF BLOOD,” by Jeff Stautz, in the short story category.
More details on the MOD blog here, and of course both stories are available to read in our totally free PDF. “ALMOND” has also been narrated in audio as part of our ongoing fiction podcast.
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